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LAST EDITION ONE CENT SHANNON SHOWS UP SCHOOL FRAUD PUBLIC WELFARE BUREAU LAUNCHES SCHEME AS CHARITY THAT WILL ENRICH CHICAGO THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 288 Chicago, Friday, Sept 3, 1915 398 LOOP PRESS TRICKS CALLED JY FLOOD Points Out How Trust Pfess Failed to Carry "Dirty Money" Story tDidnlt Send Reporters Around" Strike News in All Sections "Business Agent Riordan could have had money shoved in his hands to call off this strike," said Emmett Flood, American Federation of Labor organizer, to 25 workers of Graham & Daniels' dye house. They went on strike today for recognition of the union and time-and-a-half for over time. ' After a speech by Riordan to the strikers in a hall at Colorado and Tripp streets Flood told how Max Malter, sec'y Tailors, Dyers and Cleaners' ass'n, paid checks totaling $100 to Riordan. He added: , "Don't-believe what you rja4 ia newspapers about organized labor. Half of it is true. Half of it is lies. "If you're going to believe any thing, you don't know whether you're believing the truth or a lie. "The Day Book printed a state ment on two different days that dirty money was handed a labor official by an employer. Did the newspapers send their reporters around to see what the dirty money looked like? Did they seem anxious to show up an employer who tried to corrupt an officer of a labor union? Well, not so anybody could notice it" Police are working hard to defeat ths pause of workers who are, fight- - .-.-aefeM