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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, March 31, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 8

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BIG BUSINESS' FIGHTS HARD
AGAINST 8-HOUR BILL
Shall the working girls and wom
en of Illinois keep on working in hun
dreds of factories and stores under
the wear and tear" of the ten-hour
day?
Or shall these girls and women
have an eight-hour day more time
for health more time for life?
Illinois manufacturers and their
lawyers and witnesses before the
committee on industrial affairs at
Springfield said "No" to the latter
question, yesterday. A. R. Bone of
the Chicago Telephone Co. said his
company would have to pay thou
sands of dollars in extra money for
clerks if the law passes. Medill Mc
Cormick, legislative member who in
troduced the eight-hour bill, cornered
Bone and showed that the Bell sys
tem, of which the C. T. C. is a part,
makes money under the eight-hour
laws of five other states.
All the old crowd that has fought
every piece of labor legislation on Il
linois statute books was there. John
M. Glenn, a newspaper man who
never in his life ran a store or fac
tory, spoke as secretary of the Illinois
Manufacturers' ass'n. He denounced
the Chicago Tribune and the Mc
Cutcheon cartoon of Tuesday. It
showed manufacturers grinding chil
dren and women into a grist for prof
its. Dudley Taylor, lawyer, came along
with the old patter that the law is
all right but it, goes too far and it
' should be held off while investigations
are made and a better bill drawn.
E. C. Westman and Charlie Piez of
"Chicago argued that business is being
'destroyed by laws and more laws will
make things worse.
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GIRL DROPS SERIOUS CHARGE
The court of domestic relations'
usual listeners were surprised today
when they heard Matthilda Ficht, 16,
819 N. La Salle st, refuse to prose
cute George Piccillo, 329 W. Chicago
av., whom she had arrested on a
charge of bastardy. George is mar
ried. "I don't see why I should cause
him any trouble," the girl said. "I
used to care for him very much.-"
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STRONGER REPORTS OF RANK
RUSSIAN OUTRAGES
Berlin, via Wireless to Sayville, L. I.,
March 31. More details of alleged
Russian outrages during Slav occu
pation of German city of Memel were
printed here today.
One dispatch, credited to Sven
Hedin, noted Swedish geographer
and author, said that a young girl
ravaged by Russian soldiers died as
a result and that her mother com
mitted suicide. Hedin was quoted as
saying that he saw bodies of Ger
man civilians killed by the Russians
and talked to a number of wounded
civilians, who denied that civilians
fired upon the Slavs.
The correspondent of the Vossische
Zeitung wrote to his paper that Rus
sian officers endeavor to check the
raiders, but failed. More than 100
cases of murder and attack on wom
en have been reported to the authorities-,
the correspondent wrote.
CARRANZA ANXIOUS TO SHOW
HE IS THE BIG BOSS
Washington, March 31. Carran
za is making a determined effort to
show that he and not Villa dominates
the Mexican situation. He has
stripped his Vera Cruz and South
eastern Mexico forces to lowest pos
sible notch and sent troops against
Villa at Matamoras, against Mexico
City and against Torreon.
There is grave concern over the
Brownsville situation. Villista artil
lery was in use for the first time last
night. Gen. Funston has reported to
the war dep't that he is in touch with
the commanders on both sides and
has demanded that they keep their
fighting away from the river bank,
so as not to endanger people on this
side of the boundary.
Mexico City situation is growing
more critical.

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