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100,000 UNION TEAMSTERS ARE OUT IN BRICKMAKERS' STRIKE 100,000 union teamsters in Chicago have laid down their reins rather than I handle bricks made by strikebreak- ' ers wno have taien the place or tne 3,000 striking bup.kmakers. This was the- positive statement made today by union leaders. Never in the history of Chicago has there been a more remarkable strike in which such solidarity has been' shown. In addition to the action on the part of the teamsters, the Bricklay ers' Union has come to bat and the members of that organization abso lutely refuse to handle any scab made bricks. The results of the determined step taken by the labor unions are al ready showing. Millions of bricks are lying available in Chicago- brick yards and cannot be used owing to the refusal of the teamsters to haul them. 'The brickyards of Chicago that normally turn out 6,000,000 bricks daily are now closed and ,the "machin ery merely so much junk. In the meanwhile work on 1,000 flat buildings., now in the course of construction, has stopped dead. This means $10,000,000 worth of property tied up. The men will fight to the end to win. For the last few years the price of bricks have been going up and the brick trust has not seen fit to even grant a slight increase 'to the men. Fred Kasten, business agent of the Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Workers, today gave out the increases de manded by the men and justified their claim to higher wages by the fact that the brickmakers are only em ployed about 200 days a year. The sitting machine laborers and bricktossers now-' get 40 cents an hour, They want 42; the sitting machine operators get they want 50 cents an houh; the beltmen get 37i and want 45; the engineers ,, get 50 and want 65. The loaders and passers, want an increase of 2 cents on every thousand-bricks. C. H. Johnston, international sec retary, has arrived-in 'town to aid the men in their fight. o o; CHILD CALLS ATTENTION TO RUTH STONEHOUSE' IN CAR Many unusual things happen in the lives of photoplayers. And some times these queer incidents are quite embarrassing for the time being. The other day pretty Ruth Stone house of the Essanay Company walk ed into a street car and sat down on a side seat. A child opposite her noticed her and began staring at her. In about two minutes the small miss turned to her mother, shrieking at the top of .her thin voice, "Mother, mother, there's the girl that was frozen to death last night." Miss Stonehouse blushed furiously. For a moment tHe, gaze of the whole carful'of people'perturbed her. Then