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'ADELAIDE DANCED HERSELF TO LOVE AND 8,000-MILE HONEYMOON STORY INSIDE THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N..D. Cochran, sg3gfc OQ 500 South Peoria St. Editor and Publisher, WslszS 398 - Tel. Monroe 353. VOL, 2, NO. 255 Chicago, Monday, July 28, 1913 ONE CENT DEPARTMENT STORES OF NEW YORK CONDEMNED IN BIG REPORT National Civic Federation Scores Wages and Working Conditions in New York Stores After Investigating Twenty-two, Employing 39,000 Trust News papers Suppress or Distort Report. New York, July 28. The National Civic" Federation is a bosses' organ ization. Some time ago the "Welfare De partment" of the National Civic Fed eration set out to investigate wages and working conditions in New York department stores. It did this just at the time that the cry -of the people against the low wages and horrible working condi tions' of the department stores was swelling louder and louder. The object of the investigation was to exonerate department stores, to clear them Qf the charges of paying low wages, of working girls long, weary hours under insanitary condi tions, and-above all things to try and prove to the pedple that the low Wages paid by multi-millionaire de partment store owners had nothing to do with vice, so that the people might riot rise up in wrath and so that the multi-millionaires might quiet their own consciences. William R. Willcox, chairman of the Welfare Department of the Na tional Civic Federation, has just made public that body's report on wages and working conditions in New York department stores. And despite the fact that the Na tional Civic Federation is a bosses' organization, and that the purpose of the investigation was to "clear the name of the department stores, the report damns the department stores and their multi-millionaire owners more effectively than any tirade. The investigation was a most thorough one. Twenty establish-