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LAST EDITION QNE CENT WRS. OTTO W. LEHMNN GRANTED DIVORCE- UIWGE IS STRONG FOR GIRLS' SHELTER HOME -MARY PICKFORD AND BILLY SUNDAY TOD&Y. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL.4, NO. 158 Chicago, Friday, April 2, 1915 398 UNCLE SAM TO MAKE ARMOUR TELL OF CONDITIONS IN STOCKYARDS Millionaire Packer Summoned by Industrial Relations Commission to Explain Jiow Employes Can Live $ Other Bosses to Be Placed on Stand. l'j. Ogden Armour, the world's .greatest meat packer, head man over t-an industry that has 35,d00 .men and women on its payrolls -was served, with a subpoena yesterday by Thos. Egan, sergeant-at-armsof he TJ. S. industrial relations commission. At the same time tone of Eean's men served subpoena ,on John C. Kennedy, former associate instructor vof economics in thef University of ; Chicago. These two men will testify before the commission abont "what is labor unrest In the packing houses. Ken- nedy. will tell what he saw when ht made a survey back o the yards jtwo years ago. How men. fieht for jobs at the paU of the packing houses, how the low wages paid the workers out" of enor mous profits drive those workers to live Jn shuns and shanties Kennedy win .bring, along the cold figures on these things. He -went into the houses and talked 'with the people and saw their slim wages and the mothers and babies fighting for life against the power of .the world's greatest meat packers. And Ogden Armour win offer an explanation why he 'wants these things the way they are. He lives on a 1,400 cre estate at Lake. Forest. He rides down each day to the office of Armour s& Co. Siting, tjaclfcjta. the big leather seat &i n.e pagAggges-wttere $he peppla fefejuufll Pufiivfitlkj zms. feK &. iL mmmmmmgm