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LAST EDITION u LAST EDITION NATION-WIDE STRIKE MAY BE CALLED , PARCELS POST SCCCESS, SAYS BURLESON STATE BOARD AFTER SHADY AGENTS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N. D. Cochran, S Tel. Monroe 353- Editor' arid Publisher. Sg Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 82 Chicago, Monday, Jan. 5, 1914 ONE CENT NELSON FILES 25 CHARGES AGAINST THREE STATE STREET STGRI State Factory Inspector Assails The Fair, The Boston ) and Chas. A. Stevens Co., as Violators of Women's Ten-Hour LawCases Will Be Heard. For the first time in' tne history of the State street shopkeepers, three of the millionaire -Czars of underpaid clerks will be .forced to appear in a court of law and answer.to the charge of overworking their employes. This practice of working employes overtime has been in existence a long time, so long that the shopkeepers felt they were immune from pun ishment. , ' . , However, they reckoned without State Factory Inspector Oscar P. Nelson. , " ' " The Day Book, some time ago,' told how Nelson had discovered that The Fair was flagrantly violating the iO-Tiour law for yomen. . 'Sixteen charges have been filed against-the Lehmanns, owners of The Fair; the millionaire shopkeepers who at one time stated the clerks were only fit to be domestics. - i Six charges were filedVagainst the Boston Store, owned by Mrs. Mollie Netcher Neuberger. In this case six of the. -kitchen help are alleged to have been worked from 8 a. m, to 8 p. m., with-two fifteen-minute intermissions for lunch. fciiiiitiiiii