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MOSS ENRIGHT PARDONED COUNTY BOARD SPANKS McCORMICK LABOR CRUSHING SCHEME OF WESTERN UNION SHOWN UP THE DAY BOOK An Adless Dally Newspaper, N. D. Cochran, agggjjgj? Te!. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. t'tJ Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 67 Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1913 ONE CENT OFFICIALS OF THE FAIR TRY TO FORCE MPLOYES INTO SUBMISSION Attempt to Make Clerks Accept Meal Instead of Cash for Sunday Work Near Riot Follows fVorkers Take Possession of Elevators and Escape From Building Examiner and Tribune Fail To Use Story Clerks Gave Them, The strike of the employes of The Fair appears to have been even much more serious than at first reported. Yesterday another demonstration oc curred in the store when 150 of the strikers appeared to get their wages. A policeman's son Was thrown downstairs during the mix-up with two of the store's detectives when he demanded his money. More details concerning the strike on Sunday, when the men, women and girls rebelled after they found that instead of getting 50 cents for Sun day's work they were to be given a dinner of hashed-over turkey, have come out. The-.first report had it that only about 50 went on strike. As a matter of fact, 450t struck against the treatment handed them by Gert'l-S.upt. John J. Buell and a noisy official named Harder, who is said to be a relative of the. Lehmanns. For two Sundays previous ..to-last .Sunday about 450 of the clerks had VV M