The day book. [volume], March 08, 1913, NOON EDITION, Image 1

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VOL.2,N0.136 Chicago, Saturday March tf; 1913. ' - ONE GENT
TAPPER JIMMIES SIMPSONMARSHALL FIELD
- boss; WIJ-TS UNDER LOW ,WAGE f IRE.
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"Greatest 'Commercial, Institution - of Chicago" Pays
c ' iessi;W&hmri Smaller Stores in Order to Pile
' f -jti Millions for Jos. N. Field of England.
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'For ffiefifst'tirjie Jin the . history of Chicago that gr.citrinstitur
tion, Marshall jfteld & Co., yetera!ay. was hed-up bef ore-the eyes of
alLmen as,a thing of horror.- 4 ' , 7
, ItVasshown as-an oppressor 0 wgmanhopdj; a payer.bf starva
tion wages; ,a . robber firm that-takeS. from the children ,p .Chicago; ;to
pour part, of its iHjjotten.gaiimtp $he:lap of, a man w)ho;fenounced
his countryo live nnder e:fkg ;oF England. t I v
0 Rosenwald had gone, Jpf ore, ahd.ithe senate w,hite. slave com
mission had torn from himhis mask of phUanthrophy,' of "good
storks'," and 4aid.bare"jjie greejf that lay' beneath j'ha'd: pointed 'ac
cusing .fingers, at ihe children
from whom he .had., -wrung -the
money ro give to hjs "negro colleges.-
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s..- And; Edwin, P.Mandel. had fol
lowed, and put bf his own mquth
'thdpmrnission; had confounded
IButa . new Hush , fell over, the
.crowded red roo.m of the Hotel
,La$aliewhen Lieut. Gqv'.'Q'jSara.
'.called, to'the ,staqd "l)apper Jim-
lion leader andtvice.presTdenfc bf
.Marshall(-Fie;ld'&,;GQ.." j --h 1
, Theillionaiires. who, had been
summoned, befpre the commission
looked at ea,ch ,other,cw,ithl .queer
half-frightened glances..
They hadbTeen surprisedjwhen
the.'Cphiinision ,v had dared, lay.
bare, Jth'e-'greedy luf behind' the.
Rosenwald philanthropies.
4ut Marshall Field .Co.? The
it . it- 1 1 1 1 J. M ,
me;Simpsonj society man;, doti Jnsfugop th., has hel, Chicagq
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