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FULL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE NEWS S&&VICE OF THE UNITED PRESS ,f THE DAY BOOK f u r 500 S. PEORIA STv g398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. l,No231 Chicago, Saturday, June 22, 1912 ; One Cent PARADE BIG SUCCESS Two instances of police brutal ity marred the parade of 50,000 union mei&through the cheering crowds of m$ Loop district today. The first occurred at Madison and Franklin s,treets One of the freight handlers' banners caught on a street car. A policeman charged into the crowd, and dragged out a man, slugged and .beat .him, and then dragged him away. Police Captain Lavin was ask ed where the pian was taken. He refused to say, but five minutes later told a circulation man from Hearst's American. Lavin was asked again, and again declared he did not know anything about it. But the man who was slugged and kidnaped-because a freight handlers' banner quite accident ally caught on a street car, was dragged through the crowd in the direction of the Hearst building. At Madison and Fifth avenue, just as the parade reached that corner, viere 50,000 people were waiting ?or it, a 12-year-old union newsboy on the corner was slugged. A boy of IS objected ' to the slugging of the union (news"boy, and objected again when a, plain clothes, man seized the newsboy, and forced him to take his papers and leave the corner. -. Police Sergeant Reid,. of the Central Detail, caught the 18-year-old youth bythe afm, and flung him into the 'street. He was almost run over. . '. The parade was the greatest labor parade ever witnessed in the city. Perfectorder Was maintain ed throughout the march.' At the head of every union represented was its banner. In addition, the workers parried signs' With vari ous inscriptions on them. One readr "2,500 union ".-workmen locked out. Don't read non-union papers." Another; "60 scabs blown tip because'of defective mo tive power. Whose is the crime?" o o : THE POLITICAL MESS Governor Hiram Johnson, of California, walked out of the Re publican convention lae this af ternoon because he did not care to see the rest of the "outrage ber ing perpetrated." Johnson's walkout occurred just after the credentials commit tee had voted to seat everyone of the Taft contested delegates seat ed by the national committee.