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DISCOVERED! A TY COBB-ED WALSH WONDER IN GEORGE SISLER, MICHIGAN ATHLETE THE DAY BOOK v ry N N. D. Ctfchran, Editor nd Publisher. 398 500 South Peoria St. TeL Monroe 353. 5 VQL.2.NO182 Chicago, Thursday, May 1, 1913 ONE CENT RnnreAin nFDAOTiwiirwr QTrn?ir r.roic QTUTirK FORVLIVING WAGE AND SHORTER HOURS Force Biggest and Richest Stores to-Close Doors Girls Do Picket Duty Sympathy Walkouts Threatened. Buffalo, N. Y.f May 1 The depart ment store, girls of Buffalb yalked out on strike foe a living wage and 1 shorten .hoars&oday. ThecTerk? organjzed at a meeting last night, and immediately after wards decided, pn a strike to. enforce their demands. The men and women in the De partment, Store Employes' Associa tion arrived: atthe stores as usual this morning, but instead of going to work, fprrried picket lines along Main street in the neighborhood of the big stores, ' Their demands are simple and reasonable. They ask, a minimum wageof,$f5 for men; $8 for girls, and $18 "for chauffeurs and drivers, an eight-hour, day, with Saturday half holidays in June, July, August and September. A mininjum wage of $8 a week fof boys afsd is demanded. The- girl pickets whp lined Main street today distributed pamphlets announcing the strike, and their de mands to all passers. The-effect Was immediate. Two of the biggest and richest stores closed their doors shortly 'after the opening hoir. Xnfr others are trying to keep open, but IheVf haven't enough clerks among the lot -to-man a soda, water fountain. ' Ail the drivers and teamsters in the city are in sympathy with .the strike. Unless the stores grant the demands of 'the girls speedily, all the men in this work are expected to Walk out. They might walk out Mon day. , The other labor organizations of the city have promised their support although $hey are not ready to go as Tar as the-drivers and teamsters. Conditions in 'the Buffalo depart ment stores have been as bad as those in the stores all-over the coun try. Girl bundle counter clerk were getting as little as $2 aweekr few of the Women clerks wer getting over $5. Ever since the Illinois senate low wagds commission dragged the mil lionaire Chicago department store owners out into the open, the Buf falo girls have been quietly prepar ing to organize and strike for living wages. It is estimated that there are fully 2500 girls out today. And most of those out are on picketduty. it is not, thought the department store owners will dare to use the po lice against the young girl pickets on ijYjiun.-5ti.eev jSfi .A CjfcaAjMfyel . A cJa&fei BHlHHHHHi 'A.-.,?ACjJllfcS4.-- -W.