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NOON EDITION TEN ALDERMEN GET BACK OF THE 'PHONE MERGER QUESTION NOON EDITION RITCHIE- WOLGAST FIGHT TO BE OF CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St. Tel. Monroe 353. Automatic 51-422. By Mail, 50 Cents a Month- VOL. 3, NO. 134 Chicago, Friday, March 6, 1914 ONE CENT IIG BUSINESS ENTERS THE FIGHT iAINST WAITRESSES Rich Merchants, Led by John T. Pirie, Warn Hull House Against Aiding Girl Pickets Injunction Pro ceedings To Be Heard By Three Judges. When the police arrested fourteen girl pickets at Henrici's yesterday noon there were at least 3,000 people jammed on the street between Ran dolph street between Dearborn and Clark quietly looking on. Day after day more and more thou sands of Chicago people have been passing that way to see what kind of a struggle it is that the waitresses are making for a dollar more a. week and one day's rest in seven. The combined lockout, strike and boycott has broken up the. Henrici business to the. point where "partial defeat is-admitted.--The fbill asking for an injunction filed yesterday sets up the cry that the Henrici business is being "destroyed." Where Manr ager Collins two weeks ago was blaz--ing out in all the advertising news papers with big ads saying he was doing more business than ever, it is now claimed business is being de strayed. Class lines drew tight last night and yesterday. There were all the usual signs of a' determined, concert ed movement by Big Business. John T. Pirie of Carson.-Pirie, Scott & Co. offered a resolution at a busi ness men's meetmg'last'night -asking