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B991SRffip LAST EDITION ONE CENT LOOP TENANT SUES JACOB KESNER MERGER OF 'PHONE COMPANIES TO BE DISCUSSED U. S. AFTER GRAIN MEN WANT MORE SCHOOLS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran. Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St 396 Telephones: Editorial Monroe 353. Circulation Monroe 3826. VOL. 4, NO. 109 Chicago, Thursday, Feb. 4, 1915 ONE CENT OPEN MEETING AT HAND IN RANKS OF BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL .Unions Protest Over Agreement Signed With Building Contractors Unions Hold Meeting to Plan Action Sec'y Conroy Admits No Unions Have Accepted Agreement as Yet Secret balloting on arbitration boards for labor disputes, -and other things in the "model" contract now before building trades local unions, are getting, hard smashes. The "model" agreement was brought to the Building Trade Coun cil by Secretary E. C. Craig of the Building Construction Employers' ass'n. The council voted to 0. K. it. The idea was that this agreement should go out to all the local unions and when the locals made their con tracts with employers this spring. they should use all the features of the "model" contract This would make all the agreements in Chicago between building trades unions and employers exactly alike. The "model" contract throws prac tically all power of calling strikes and settling grievances into the hands of a central committee to be called the joint arbitration board. Sec. 7 of the model contract says that "in the event of any umpire for any reason being unable to serve, any unsettled dispute shall besettlgd b ihejghjj