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T1 -' ysw, MARGARET HALEY WINS AGAIN! SANDBURG MAKES SUGGESTION TO TRIBUNE AND NEWS BY CARL SANDBURG Margaret Haley wins again. Often she loses. She lost when the Illinois Manufacturers' ass'n lobby with the aid of Sen. Percy Baldwin as leader killed the nine-hour law for -women. She lost when the child labor bill was smothered. But she won when the Cooley bill, backed by the Commer city club, Illinois Steel Co. and other interests, was beaten. She lost when the board of educa tion slammed the door in the face of a city council committee and refused to let the people of Chicago have a look at how Sec'y Lewis Larsen keeps books on public money. She lost when Sen. Sam Ettelson's reso lution to create the Baldwin commit ted to investigate Chicago schools was slipped into a "corrected" senate journal without debate and without knowledge of senators who would have asked questions if the job was done openly. r She lost when the Baldin commit tee with Myer Stein as attorney came on to Chicago and staged witnesses like Jake Loeb and Contractor Hol push to knife the' federation. And again when Margaret Haley left town for a rest after months of nerve-racking toil she was a loser when Jake Loeb and Bill Rothman, two of our best woman-fighters, sprang their school board resolution." td drive all teachers out of the federation. She was a winner when State's At'ty Hoyne decided the federation fight is the people's fight and joined his name to the petition for injunc tion. And Haley won again when Judge John M. O'Connor yesterday put a bright shine on the drab judi ciary of Cook county with a decision that the school board must keep hands off the federation. So it goes. For fifteen years this one little woman has flung her clenched fists .into the faces of con tractors, school lands. lease holders, taxdodgers and their politicians, fix ers, go-betweens and stool-pigeons. Now she wins. And now she loses. Over this long stretch of years in which brown hair has turned gray and then white, the Tribune, the News and the ramified gang of ma nipulators who hate Margaret Haley have not been able to once smutch her in the eyes of the decent men and women of this town who do their own thinking. When Billy Hard quits the Tribune as editorial writer and goes into mag azines the first thing he does is write a story of the work of Margaret Haley. He told how the teachers were a driven, exploited low-paid class without even right of petition. He told how they were organized and how they made a tax fight that ended incorporations being assessed at 10 per cent on capital stock, and this brought over $250,000 more a year Into the school fund, out of which it was possible to give a pay raise to the women. Billy Hard rated the Haley woman a great, brfiliant, aggressive figure of historic size. 'But he couldn't have printed it in the Tribune. "She fills the shoes of Altgeld bet ter than any man now living in Illi nois," said an old-timer in Judge O'Connor's courtroom yesterday. In her speeches and bulletins she has the Altgeld straight and simple way of clinging to naked facts and asking direct questions. Her battles have been with the same "eternal monopoly" crowd Altgeld was ham merlocked with. ' On the funeral day of this Haley woman, Bertie McCormick, if he lasts on the Tribune as publisher, will order Tiffany Blake, chief editorial writer, to write "a few tears for the sister." Unless somebody with eye sight and red blood gets control of the Tribune it will be the same way with Haley as it was with Altgeld. Hq