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IppBSwiOTRRffipSiSSSS 5PS $&yr&'Tg' a LAST EDITION ONE CENT TRUST PAPERS AND DEPARTMENT STORES DODGE TAXES-SALARY BOOST FOR JUDGES SIGNED PROBE CONDITIONS AT RIVERVIEW THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, N 0.230 Chicago, Saturday, Juno 26, 1915 398 MONEY POWER MOVE TO BREAK UNION LABOR Bankers Back Contractors in Giant Lockout To Dis cipline Insurgent Bosses First Move in War on Chicago Unions. The building trades lockout went into effect today. If the plans of the bosses pan out there will be 200,000 more idle men in Chicago within a week. Now rises the question: Is this an organized effort to crush for all time unionism in Chicago? La Salle street has lined up solid in favor of the boycott. David R. Forgan, president of the National City bank and brother of the presi dent, of the Chicago clearing house, 'was at the meeting of 92 Big Busi ness men yesterday at which the lockout was authorized in a diplo matically worded resolution. Forgan assured the Big Business representatives that the financial in terests of Chicago were in sympathy with the movement and gave assur ance that "the banks would stand firjnly behind the employers who closed their plants. He said these men who went to war upon the unions need not worry if they could not meet their notes. The banks will carry their notes for them until times are more prosperous. This means that the banks have joined with the lumbermen, contract ors and building material makers in a coalition against the union men of the building trades . . -.. - r - . r lTrBT(lll YjgjTf m)mrmm &&& ... M - - Itkt . .M- rtA Sft J4j . Jk'