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AN AD-LESS NEWSPAPER COMPLETE WIRE AND CABLE NEWS REPORT OF UNITED PRESS THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2.N0.85 Chicago, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1913 ONE CENT 15,000 MORE GARMENT WORKERS OUJ; STRIKE MAY SPREAD TO PHILADELPHIA Rosie Schneiderman, Who Led Laundry Workers Victory Last Winter, Now at Head of Girls' Division Balloting for Walkout. to CRUSHED AT SIEGEL, COOPER & CO.'S Jim McMinnehan, an engineer, was badly injured when he was crushed underneath the freight elevator in Siegel, Cooper & Co.s department store last Thursday. No report of the accident was made to the police. Not a word of the accident has been profited.' McMinnehan was fixing a valve in the pit underneath the freight elevator. Something went wrong. The elevator crashed down on top of him. An ambulance was called and McMinnehan's crushed body was spirited away before those near the Siegel-Cooper alley could realize what was happening. McMinnehan lives at 615 Bow en avenue. This is the second elevator ac cident at Siegel, Cooper & Co.'s svithio three weeks. New York, Jan. 8. Fifteen thou sand more workers joined the strike of the garment workers to day when the employes of the Ki mona and Wrapper Trade walked lout. There was an attempt today by the police to stop picketing.. One striker was sent to the hos pital with a badly clubbed head. Several others were injured. The use of the police shows that the bosses are getting des perate. There is no doubt the factories are almost completely tied up, and with the picketing going on they can get no strike breakers to work for them. So they are going to try and use the police to remove the pickets and dupe men and women into working as scabs. The vote of the members of the ladies' garment workers on join ing the strike is being taken rap idly today. . All indications point