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f'5WartiSwfl mjttmmtaaMias wsmKW LAST EDITION - ONE CENT WZ.CS KRUTTSCHNITT TESTIFIES AT U. S HEARING IRONWORKERS ARE OUl; GENERAL STRIKE SEMS CERTAIN LATEST WAR NEWS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper! Daily Except Sunday VOL 4, NO. 165 Chicago, Saturday, April 10; 191S 398 c WORKING GIRLS SCORE VICTORY AT MEETING OF 8-HOUR DAY BODY Testimony on Evils of Overworking Women Impresses Legislative Committee-CFane Addams Proves Good Witness For Girls. WOULD A RICH MAN CONSIDER IT A LIVING WAGE? Chairman Walsh of the 0. S. indus trial relations commission, put this one to Julius Kruttschnitt, big rail road man, today: "Do you consider $60 a month enough for an American Tamiiy on.." ;? The heayy-paunched "murb-mil-lionajre answered: "Well, that de pends on what the ordinary working man considers-a jiving. I canper haps answer it best by saying that' there are thousands and thousands doing it and educating 'their children $9? 1 i . - w v, - On purely scientific facts, without the remotest sentimental 'appeal; ihe proponents of the proposed 8-hour legislation for "women mtroduced testimony before the 8-houT',leglsla-, tlve committee this mornings show ing the absolute necessity ofjShQrter working hours for women. Dr. Henry B. Fabian, 122 g-Michlr workingman 'o keep- tog ordinary I gan blvd., testified to the abnormal familv on?' SS I strain rnifnnnn xtrnrbine' "wnmpTT In factories and other occupations where the work is monotonous and incessant, and he said there could, be no question of its effect upon the nervous system of women, and upon, the coming generation. He declared that in Tils, opinon it was. absolutely necessary for work" .4 '- J3 iiittiiiiiiiMaktiiiii