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SSF'v R, -,-JrW3W.y?5-- TELLS OF PLAN OF BOSSES IN REGARDS COMING STRIKE "Contractors knew six months ago this carpenters' strike was coming unless the demands of the men were met They plannedjrom six months ago how they coukfcrush the strike and at the same time paralyze the union. A part of their plan was to make work as slack as possible all through the winter in the hope that the men could be reduced to such pitiful financial straights that they would soon be starved into submis sion once the strike was declared." Above are some strike opinions as expressed by John Metz, president of carpenters' district council 'The contractors are not playing square. Thehy offered us an agree ment which called for 18 months' work with no arise and then 18 months with a raise of 2 cents. This offer was made a few days after the men had voted that they would accept nothing less than an imme diate raise of 5 cents an hour to be followed in each of the next two years by raises of 2V cents an hour. In the face of the vote Ch wages just taken from the men it would cer tainly have been folly and waste of time to have presented the niggardly offer of the contractors for vote. "If the contractors ass'n wanted to play fair why did it not present its 2y2 cent increase offer months be fore, instead of waiting till a week before the old agreement expired. The men would not have accepted it, but they would have been given a fair opportunity to turn it down by referendum vote." Some of the men in the ranks of the carpenters profess to scent a scheme to single out a prominent leader and make him a strike scape goat. N. Y. AFTER QUACK DOCTORS The campaign of extermination in New York against quack doctors is hitting the same "M. D.'s" that Chi cago newspapers and police put out of business a year ago. The New I York men axe supposed to be mem bers of the "quack trust" About fifty physicians who oper ated "laboratories" and advertise widely that they cure "blood poison" were placed under arrest as public nuisance. Their operations will be uncovered by federal sleuths. -, o o IPS HANDY TO HAVE PROPER FRIENDS SAYS HINT A hint ihat if you are or intend to be a school principal it is a handy thing to have influential friends was given by members of the school board when the files showing correspond ence on the recent transfer of 28 teachers and the promotion of sev eral was shown. A rule of the board requires that all "friendly" recommendations given teachers in line for better jobs be listed with the name of the friend. When the files on the last transfer and promotions were ghown many prominent names including that of Mayor Harrison, Aid. Capitain, Michael Collins, head of the school board, and Peter Reinberg, president of the county board, were listed. Five school board members had made their "recommendations." o o BEG YOUR PARDON, PALMER Editor Day Book It has come to my knowledge that on the second sheet of your issue of Friday, April 23, you state that I signed the so called Lyman Cooley report on sew age disposal and water power devel opment of the Sanitary District I did not sign this report and would request that in your next issue you correct the false information given to the public through the columns of CD your publication. I only kenw that a commission had been appointed on sewage disposal and water power development of the Sanitary District some time after the publication of the report and had nothing to do whatsoever with any thing that was contained therein. Ray Palmer-