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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION THE WHISPER-A SHORT LOVE STORY BY ROBT W. CHAMBERS APPEARS IN THIS ISSUE THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N.J). Cochran, sP&s 500 South Peoria St. Editor and Publisher, Tel. Monroe 353. VOL. 2, NO. 273 Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 16, 1913 ONE CENT HEARST WILL GO ON FRYING PAN OF CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR . Trades Union Edition of Examiner Expected To Be V - Denounced by Delegates Representing All . .' '. - - 1 Union Labor in Chicago. . .... Tomorrow's meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor wiU-gSBably, be one of the most important meetings that body ever held. From many unions from alT over. Chicago delegates will come to repre sent the, sentiment of those unions against the deal .between Hearst and Simon O'Donnell, president of the Chicago Building Trades Council, to get out an alleged trades union edition of the Chicago Examiner. Aside from a few close supporters of O'Donnell, the sentiment of or ganized labor in Chicago is practically unanimous against a trades union edition of a newspaper that is on the unfair list of the Chicago Federation of Labor and is barred from using the union label of the Chicago Allied Printing Trades Council. ' While unions in various trades all over town have denounced the Hearst-O'Donnell deal, the feeling is strongest among the real union men in the unions affiliated with the Building Trades Council, because of the non-union position they are put In by the action of theto council president. The C. F. of L, put the Hearst papers on the unfair list last year after a thorough investigation by a special committee and after th'e 'publishers had turned down all efforts of President John Fitzpatrick to bring about arbitration. The Hearst papers started the lockout on May 1, 1912, by locking out their union prjessmen, members of Pressmen's Union No. 7, and filling their places with scabs.