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WIPJPS8S Ik NOON EDITION NOON EDITION Fw3 rjy b. IU : . Pii f i', k THE BREAKER BOY A SHORT STORY BY CLARENCE D ARROW, IS IN THIS ISSUE THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, xtgsggs Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. liljlIP0 Automatic 51-422. 500 S6uth Peoria St. 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 30 Chicago, Saturday, Nov. 1, 1913 ONE CENT 'HOBO KING' JOLTS CONVICT LABOI FOR BENEFIT OF UNEMPLOYED C. Jeff Davis, President International Itinerant Workers. Wins Plea Before National Good Roads Congress in Detroit That Unemployed Be Given Chance at Work Before Convict Labor Is Used. C. Jeff Davis, the "Hobo King," president of the International Itinerant Workers, dropped off the tender of a "Big Four" train yesterday afternoont and with him he brought the Important problem of the unemployed. Davis is hitting the road for the American Federation of Labor con vention to be held at Seattle. He expects to arrive there Nov. 10. He left Cincinnati Oct. 23. Davis will take up the question of convict labor on the public high ways and also the making of cigars in the penitentiaries. But Jeff has an other object in mind. That is the repeal of all the vagrancy laws of the United States as unconstitutional. Davis recently threw a bomb into the National Good Roads Congresr convention held in Detroit, when he demanded and was granted, a seat as. delegate, by attacking their plan for putting convicts to work on the pro posed national highway. He pleaded for the unemployed. And although the meeting of banker? and other representatives of Big Business tried to down !hlm he finally car ried his point and the congress passed a resolution providing that an effort