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LAST EDITIQN ' ONE CENT. CHI. GARMENT WORKERS TO STRIKE? MAY QUIT FOLLOWING NEW YORK ACTION 9 THAW GETS SEVERE LAST MINUTE JOLTS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Bmfy Except Sunday VOL.4, NO. 244 Chicago, Wednesday, July 14, 1915 3 BIG CORPORATIONS TO BE HTTJiEXT War on Taxdodgers Won't Stop at MUlwnazrfis Rich Business Concerns Will Have to Come Through, Says State's Attorney Hbyne, ' . People thought the limit had been reached when prosecution of million aires who refused to pay taxes began. But State's Att'y Hoyne isn't stop ping at millionaires. He's going, after some of the biggest corpora tions in Chicago. His office force has been working day and night to get the dope on the ones who are not coming across with the tax kale which should drop in the coffers of the county. According to Hoyne, certain cor porations have for years failed to pay assessments against capital stock. Under the Illinois law a n can not be taxed for the stock he owns in an Illinois corporation.' Instead, the capital stock of the corporations is assessed and the corporations col lect from the stockholders. For years corporations hare been- evading this law to the joy of the stockholders. Hoyne is going to burst their joy bub ble. He is going to make them pay their just share of this state's upkeep or he is going to find out why. It appears that in many instances the corporations have been treated so leniently that assessments have not even, been made against theav. -figfiBM-M-iiiiMMMiiifiii4iiiiiiiijiiag