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" r"iir-T-" """ t: tm-ti'- f g, a T "" i ' i" j ' ' ' g i'H p . ' m ' w m,r:m t i ' r LAST EDITION ONE CENT BULGARIA MUST BACK UP OR FIGHT 'THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday yOL 5, NO. 6 Chicago, Monday, October 4, 1915- 393os MUST HEALEY AND COPS ANSWER TO COUNCIL? Aldermen To Bring Up Rank Action Used Against Clothing Workers at Tonight's Council Meeting Lynch Wants To Know About CoastTrip. Council will be asked tonight to curb police brutality that has been a daily occurrence since the beginning of the clothing workers' strike.. So cialist Aldermen Rodriguez and Ken nedy have collected fifty affidavits from women and girls manhandled by cops. These will be handed to the council. "Most of theaffidavits are from girls," Rodriquez said. "They testify to having been beaten and pinched and jerked off their feet by six-foot bluecoats. Several are in bed as a result of their experiences at the hands of these city paid, men," resolution which calls for the most thorough probe the police department ever has undergone. He will intro duce it tonight The alderman, in Sunday's Tribune, was listed among the 22 who were going to take the trip with the mayor. "Our committee will be too busy to take a vacation for several weeks," the alderman told a Day Book re porter. "One of the things we are curious to know is how Chief Healey can feel that he can take a vacation after calling 300 members of his de partment in from their furloughs to special duty on the strike. "I wouldn't take that trip if they Howpvervtbig j-X .vAtfjraanBLojnaSsALj: