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WILL KICK TO COUNCIL. If plans of the Chicago Federa tion of Labor are carried out, MayofHarrison will have one of the most strenuous times ofhjs career at the meeting of the city council in the city hall tonight. The mayor will find out justwhat the federation thinks about him, and he will not be flattered at the opinion. At its meeting last Sunday -the federation called for members to gather at tonight's council meet ing and protest against the action of the mayor and Chief of Police McWeeny. In the resolution for the meet ing, adopted Sunday, it was de clared that "at the instance of Mayor Harrison and Chief Mc Weeny the police are assaulting, intimidating, browbeating and jailing men who have broken no law and committed no crime, as evidenced by the fact that they are promptly acquitted when their cases are brought up in court." Thousands of union workers have notified the federation that they will be present tonight. As planned the demonstration will be a spontaneous outburst on the part of union men. The workers will gather in the galleries, and when that is filled the overflow will take up stations in the .corridors. s Chairman William RosseH of the federation legislative commit tee declared the federation held no animus against the aldermen. Their protest is directly solely at the mayor and" Chief McWeeny. JACK JOHNSON IN WRONG. Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, and his wife, Etta, white woman, were indicted by the federal grand jury today, charged with smug gling into this country a diamond, necklace worth $6,500. Johnson was given the oppor tunity some weeks ago of escap ing prosecution by paying the government $9,000. The negro prizefight champion had an idea he was a bigger man than the gov ernment and attempted to com promise for a smaller sum. Johnson'f attorneys arranged, for him to plead before a U. S. commissioner at Los Veeras, N. vM., where he is training for his fight with Jim Flynn July 4. It was agreed that the case should not interfere with plans "for the championship battle. The indictment Js a lifesaver for Promoter Jack Curley, who had worked the racket that Gov. McDonald would interfere with the fight until it was useless as a means of attracting attention to the bout KIDNAPING MYSTERY . Police have been asked to search for Mrs. Dolly Wilson, divorced wife of George Wilson, a travel ing salesman, residing at 2126 Leland avenue. Mrs. Wilson is suspected of having possession of 11-year-old Grace Wilson, their daughter, who was kidnaped Thursday af ternoon, ihe child was award ed to theiather at the time of the divorce trial, 10 years ago. .i j ja jr " i-s., .Sd .vt A in ' iiTfW rfVi Urn mi, mrth' fti "T n iTi i iFifMMlfMl