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NOON EDITION' dNE CENT MARY PICKFORD PLAYED HER FIRST PART WHEN SHE WAS FIVE READ HER UFE STORY BILLY SUNDAY'S THIRD SERMON IN TODAY THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sonday VOL. 4, NO. 156 Chicago, Wednesday, March 31, 1915 398 CITY FACES BIGGEST LABOR STRIKE WITHIN RECENT YEARS Action of Bosses in Refusing to Consider New Agree ment Makes Trouble Inevitable 6,000 Painters Are Ready to Strike Unless the Building Construction Employers' ass'n recedes from the -attitude it has assumed toward agreements submitted to it by several labor unions the building industry of Chicago may be paralyzed by tomor row afternoon. 6,000 painters are al ready prepared to walk out on strike. The conference between the build ing trades unions and the employers yesterday brought no results. No re sults were expected by anyone on either side. Its principal purpose was to prepare a whitewash coat so that certain folks could say after trouble began, "Well, we did our best, our hands are dean." Even SamT Gompers went into the conference room with the very best of owledge as just what was going to happen He heard the universal agreement roasted and he heard its champions rip into the attitude offts opponents. Gompers left the conference room as absolutely neutral as he has been an through the row. Representatives of the four insur gent unions arose in the meeting yes terday and repeated the assertion that they would accept no compro mise that did not abolish the joint agreement or else omit clauses ob jectionable. Today they will present an agree ment drawn along the lines they think proper. This is certain to find rapid repose in the depth of a waste basket on its arrival at the office of the Building Constraction Employ ers 'ass'n. Hope for peace seems vain. There is scarcely a ghost of a chance of getting together. The trouble cloud looks all th$ k