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NOON EDITION ONE CENT, CARPENTERS LINE UP FOR BIGGEST STRIKE TELEPHONE OPERATOR SUES RICH MAN BIG FAKE CONTEST GROWS WARM WAR NEWS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 171 Chicago, Saturday, April 17, 1915 398 LEGISLATORS IN PLOT TO KILL (,00D BILLS Women Plan Lobby to Offset Scheme of Political Gang to Kill New Laws-Gardner's Bastardy Bill in Peril. What is the Influence that is stand ing Back of the fight on the bills that has been introduced in the state leg islature for the betterment of ' the women of Illinois? Representatives Medill McCormick and John Gardner and Lieut. Gov. Barratt O'Hara, who have been fight ing for new bills such as the amend ed bastardy law, the 8-hour bill and the new wife abandonment bill have found themselves up against a stone wall when it comes to action. Delegates from any women's clubs of Chicago are preparing to investi gate the records of the recactionary members of the legislature who are secretly blocking the efforts of the men who are fighting for more hu mane laws. Gardner's bastardy proposition that would compel the father Qf an ille gitimate to support' the child until it got to an independent age has met with opposition from the entire line of old-time political bosses. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, Harriet Vittum and others who have been in terested in the new bills threaten to expose this ring. It is openly hinted, that the man who have been fore most in the fight on the new legisla tion are the members of the so-called Dailey-Barr-Ettelson crowd. ' If the opponents of the new laws continue their fight there are great prospects of one of the greatest lob bies of women ever organized march ing down on Springfield and .denounc ing the men. John Gardner, who introduced the bastardy law, has been urged By poli- s.