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JOINT AGREEMENT FOES MAY ASK OUSTING OF
BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL JUDGE NEIL
ATTACKS CHARITIES MINISTER IS OUSTED
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL.4. NO. 152 Chicago, Friday, March 26, 1915 398 ..3ft,
FIREMEN'S UNION ISSUES PLEA FOR
DOUBLE PLATOON SYSTEM
In Formal Statement Union Answers Argument of Foes
- Explains Hardship of Chicago Firemen's
Condition Under. Present System.
Union firemen would go on strike
sooner or later said a fireman op
ponent of the two platoon system at
a business men's meeting. He tried
to use this as an argument against
the double platoon, not explaining
why union firemen would be more
likely to strike under the new sys
tem than under the present one.
This allegation has roused the ire
of the Firemen's ass'n. "It is absurd
to think such a thing possible," says
the Firemen's, ass'n in an official
statement. "The firemen's union is
associated with the Chicago Fed. of
Labor by contract that prevents any
labor trouble.
"Firemen are now sworn under
oath tQ protect life and property and
should they fail, individually or col
lectively, the consequences would be
dire. Firemen have been aJBllated
with the A. F. of L. for eight years,
therefore the trouble of 1871 cannot
be laid against the union."
The Firemen's ass'n also declares
that the two platoon system will
mean a far more efficient department
without the addition df another man
or the expenditure of an additional
dollar.
It cites that in all double platoon
cities the system has worked out
successfully. '
Messages from officials in Kansas
City and Omaha say that each city
was saved from blazes that threat
ened destruction of the business dis
trict by having two trained depart
ments on the job.
- It has been said by the firemar-
1 shal that installation of the two pla-

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