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CROWDS FIGHT TO SEE MARSHA WARRINGTON, ON WHOM DIGGS PUT BRAND OF SCARLET THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, Editor, and Publisher, 500 South Peoria St. ' 398 To I Mnnroa "iK? . VOL.2, NO. 265 Chicago, Friday, Aug. 8, 1913 ONE CENT 10,000 UNION PAINTERS LEAVE THE BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL Painters' District Council Denounces Hearst-OyDonnell Special Edition Allied Printing Trades Council Also Acts General Resentment Among Labor Unions Over Action of Simon O'Donnell. Ten thousand union painters in Chicago, have withdrawn from the Building Trades Council, and if is believed other strong unions will follow. It may mean the organization of a new council and the retirement of Simon O'Donnell as the big leader of the building trades unions. Throughout the rank and file of the strongest union men there is bitter resentment of the deal O'Donnell made with Hearst to get out a so-called union edition of the Examiner, with O'Donnell as editor-in-chief. Having stirred up a hornet's nest among the staunch union men in his organization, O'Donnell is reported to have left town, with Frank Thoman of the advisory board to sit on the lid, with a red hot fire under the lid. The cause of all the trouble is the action of President O'Donnell in gaveling through a resolution last Friday night endorsing his deal with Hearst, and then taking up his headquarters in the Hearst building as a Hearst editor of the special edition. Besides the body blow delivered 'at the Hearst-O'Donnell deal by the Painters' District Council, the Allied Printing Trades Council last night unanimously denounced the alleged trades union edition and protested against the Building Trades Council or any other union body using a Hearst paper as an official organ, unless that paper had a union label agreement. ,. ' The Allied PmTIbgrTraa- of pressmen, i