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?i THE DAY BOOK - 500 SO. FJ20RIA ST 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. l,Nq; 187 Chicago, Thursday, May 2, 1912 One Cent hearst papers lock out pressmen-all trust Papers follow their leattand suspend 4, Paddy L"avin, Onlyi Police Inspector Not Fired By.iHearst-Donun-'ated Civil Service Commission, Takes Charge '"of Strike Brought in from Hyde Park. m , Every newspaper in Chicago is j tween the members of the pub- a member o,tnej Daily isews paperAsociation of 'Chicago this is the technical name jof the publishers' trust today suspend?, ed publication. This extraordinary-action was taken following a lockout of the Examiner pressmen ' at .9:30 o'clock last night. The lockout order was given by Andrew M. Lawrence, man ager of the Hearst papers hk Chi aago, and would-be -political ooss. The quarrel with the union was Hearst's alone. But by" virtue of the irohbound agreement be- MINERS TO STRIKE. "Bulletinv ' "N,ew York, May 2. The. gen eral committee of the anthracite miners this afternoon flatly re jected the.Compromise agreement prepared by the subcommittee of miners and operators, by which if was expected to end .the coal tie-up- Strike probable. hshers trust, the other news papers had to get Into it. Repreesntatiyes of the publish ers of every'newspaper were pres ent in the Hearst building lat Madjson and Market when Law rence gave the lockout order. I This morning, tjie other news papers in the trust openly joined with Hearst, and as an obvious firsfestep toward1 breaking up the entire" Newspaper Web Press men'union, reiused to recqgnizs the union in any Chicagb news paper press .room. This attempt must spread over the whole country. It is likely to affect the Hearst" newspapers m New Xork Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Atlanta lomon'ow. The Hearst contract with Web Pressmen's Union No. 7 ran out at midnight last night. The evidence of the prepara tion of thejmblishers for a lock out became open yesterday morn ing. "When the American pressmen went to Work, they found police