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9 fei3 mmwissim tares vp CONDITIONS IN CHICAGO SWEATSHOPS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N.tD.,Cbchran, 500 South PeoriaSt Editor and Publisher. dyB Tel. Monroe 353. - VOL. 2; NO. 155 Chicago, Monday, March 31, 1913 ONE CENT NEWSPAPERS HIDING TRUTH ABOUT UNJUST AW&RD IN STREET CAR ARBITRATION The Street Car Men-Did Not Get Any Raise and They Are Not Satisfied They Were Tricked and Fooled and. Arbitration Has Received a Blow. ,The trust .newspapers once more-are deliberately' trying, to throw dust in the eyes of the 'people. This topic -isf becoming positively tiresome from its-very frequency. And yet, in plain justice to the people, every attempt of thesort must be exposed. - Last Saturday,, the findings of the board of arbitration in 'the dispute between the street car, companies and their employes were made public after a delay of J95 days. The award was" not unanimous. It was" signed by Chief Justice Orrin N, Carterthe supposedly unbiased third arbitrator, and Herbert E. Fleming, chief engineer of the Chicago City Railways Co., the company's hand-picked arbitrator. It was dissented from by Judge Kickham Scanlan, the arbitra tor appointed by the employes. The award of the majority of the. board was most unfair and most unjust' to the, men. In .many cases the. men were given less by Carter and Fleming than the 6ompanies had offered them .before arbitration. And in only one; case, -and that of practically no 'significance, did Carter and Fleming, give,' the, men more than the companies offered. That's what the street, car men of Chicago got for 'taking -the public into consideration last summer and not tying up the city by a great strike that wouidhaye brought the companies to their knees within a week. Judge Scanlan, in his dissenting opinion, bitterly denounced the, award oftthe majority of the board, and characterized it as a, "great blow to the splendid cause o'f arbitration.- 1 -It is allof that. It practically means that the next time the stree car men have a grievance they will present their demands to the companies, and if these, demands be' not granted immediately wto forthwith walk out jTi strike and let the people of; Chicago go to the deiice Aid they will be perfectly justified in so doings -Thley, played, fair this