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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION MORE STORES FINED UNDER LABOR LAW INSPECTOR JVELSON BRINGS UP 74 CASES FORM-REVEAUNG GOWNS GET A WALLOP THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, .gggfeg ' Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. i Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St. 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a .Month. VOL. 3, NO. 100 Chicago, Monday, Jan. 26, 1914 ONE CENT BIG CONCERNS MAY BE FORCED TO COME THROUGH WITH BACK TAXES ' " " . Illinois Tax Reform Association To Make' Test Case of National Box Co. If Court Decides Against Tax Dodgers Then Bigger Concerns Will Get a Kick in TJteir Tix-Dodging Trousers. One . and one-h.aif -.-bjllibn dollars back taxes' napaid liy-; Illinois cor porations' are involved .hv a case: plac ed by the state supreme'court on its docket fpr-.Pebruaiy. The Chicago taan who started-the suit is -Maxwell jEdgar, the" attorney. He says -that, as !the decision' was put off by the court in .December, it is probable the, court will- tell what it flunks, officially,, next month. Edgar is secretary-treasurer of the Jllin6is -Tax; Refo'rjn Association, which is making the contest- The case-picked 6y the corporations, for nicking a is that of the National Box Co., the Smallest. If the court decides against the taxdodgers, arid in favor of hav ing "the lax laws carried out Exactly as they stand in the law Boks, Illinois corporations and owners of stocks and bonds will be forced to, pay over pne hundred million dollars of taxes each -year, that they are not .paying bow. The National Box Co. is a beef . trust -concern. It makes all the boxes and" pails for Morris & o. and Swift & Co. and a few outside business houses. In 1909, this, company re ported to 'the .federal government, under the corporation ix law, tha$