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MOON. EDITION., " NOON- EDITION- THE GOLDEN POOL-BY ROBT. W. CHAMBERS, STARTS IN THIS ISSUE THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N.D. Cochran, ggggBsfk Tel. Monroe 353. Editor .and Publisher. TtKog Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St. 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 12 Chicago, Saturday, Oct. 11, 1913 ONE CENT PROGRESSIVES BLAST THE LID OFF THE PROPOSED 'PHONE GRAB Speakers Tell Progressive Club of the Betrayal of the City by the. Automatic Telephone Co. Trust News ' papers Slight Meeting Chicago Telephone Co.Fail to Send Man to Debate Question. The lid was blasted off the proposed telephone merger and the frame up by which tlje telephone trust hopes to take over and junk the automatic was revealed at a big meeting held by the Progressive Club last night. Sen. Walter Clyde Jones, Dr. Clarence B. Strouse and Harold D. Stroud aroused the members of the. club by their speeches, wherein "they told how the Automatic Telephone Co. had betrayed the city and had stolen a tunnel and now proposed to hand over the telephone service to a monopoly the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. The trust newspapers were attacked for covering up the game of the telephone magnates. It was predicted that if the story of last night's meet ing, which was really big news, reached the people it would be either in a brief or in a badly' distorted form. This morning's papers proved their prophecy. 1' Never before since the birth of the Progressive party has a subject met with such enthusiastic approval. The members have pledged their support to this big fight for the people. The Chicago Telephone Company, which was invited to send a repre sentative, refused' to stand for a debate on the steal and sent no one. " Sen," Jones, told how the automatic;, was grafted underground ub$