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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, March 18, 1915, NOON EDITION, Image 1

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NOON EDITION ONE CENT
DRUGGISTS FACE DOPE SELLING CHARGES
CAFE DANCING UPHELD LABOR WALLOPS
MERIT BODY COUNTY HOSPITAL AIDS HIT II
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL. 4, NO. 145
Chicago, Thursday, March 18, 1915
398
TRADES UNIONISTS REJOICE OVER
SETTLEMENT OF TROUBLE
Peace on Lumberman's Exchange is Victory for Unions
An Example of How Brunswick, Balke &
Collender Worked the Game.
Labor -won a big victory when the
Lumberman's Exchange building dis
pute was settled late yesterday with
a victory for the workmen on every
point It is notable that the unions
did not compromise a single issue.
Their victory was clear and decisive.
The victory was won at the ex
pense of the Brunswick, Balke, Col
lender Co., a concern that has pre
viously been considered almost un
beatable when a labor issue was in
volved. The Brunswick, Balke, Collender
Co., holds a costly contract to install
the heavy wood fixtures of the
Greenebaum bank and the Hugo
Schmidt cigar store in the new Lum
berman's Exchange building. Both
are big jobs. When lie contract was
let it was understood that the wood
work would be finished in Chicago.
It developed that the work was bet
ing finished in the company's factory
at Dubuque, la., where finishers work
for 21 to 26 cents an hour. In Chi
cago a finisher gets a living wage of
70 cents an hour.
When hardwood finishers, Local
No. 430, took the matter up with J.
CJ. Schank, general superintendent
and heavy stockholder in the Col
lender company, he laughed at them, r
The Collender company does an en
ormous amount of work in Chicago,
and for it to pay Chicago finishers 70
cents an hour when its own men in
Dubuque would do the work for 26
cents an hour or less would be to cut.
a big slice in the company's profits
and hand it over to the man -witJ
the brush.
The finishers did not argue they
laid dowu their tools,
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