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T"rSS55SHS3 sgiBPjffliii I ILD. MERRIAM SAYS 'PHONE DEAL WON'T BE SLIPPED THROUGH THE COUNCIL THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, tlEafe TeJ Monroe 353- Editor and Publisher. TVJaglSP'k Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, 50'Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 15 Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1913 ONE CENT UNION MEN STRIKE AGAINST ACTION Of PRESIDENT SIMON O'DONNELL Eighteen Hundred Painters and Glaziers Walked Out Today -in Strike That Threatens to Involve All Building Trades Hearst-O'Donnell Affair a Contributing Cause. Eighteen hundred painters and glaziers went out on strike today as a result of the-'alliance between Simon O'Donnell, president of the Building Trades CouncD,and the Building (Construction Employers' Association. The presehfctrouble is merely an aftermath of the Hearst special rades union edition (which didn't come out) and the settlement of the building .trades lockout. .. Eor the 'strange manner in which these two events were handled by O'Donnell, Pairiterst District' Council No. 14, representing 10,000 union nieri, withdrew from the-Building Trades Council. O'Donnell then ""took In a new organization and gave to it the work that, should have been handled by 'union painters. Recently there was formed in the Building Trades Council an organization that styles itself the Amalgamated Glass Workers. To this neV organization O'Donnell turned over all the glazing work. The -real union .bodied were entirely ignored in the matter. After it was seen that 'the Examiner had been defeated in its'" effort to victimizeunion'labor'through the medium of a special edition, vouched for and edited byODdnnelli'the pairitersmade application for reinstatement in the Building-Trades Council. ' a'DoimeU'-then'revengeoMfie boycott placed against his friend, William Randolph- Hearst,. byrtheleal'&adesMmioniss of Chicago, -headed by thk I