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men. The porter, to get enough to live on, -will be very attentive to those who look "good" to him. He has to do this, for that $27.50, with $2 or $3 held out for shortages, will not feed "him on the road and keep his family at home. When vou are extending your sym- pathy to the porter do not forget the conductor, it is true ne geus a. sal ary. He does not have to hold out his hand to the passengers as they leave the cars, but when a man gets from $70 to $95 and it costs him about $30 per month to live on the road, his family does not have very much to purchase more than the bare necessities of life. While the representatives of the company said that they encouraged the men to improve the service and that they always had an opportunity to go higher if they did not get the proper treatment, it is well known that it is not an easy matter to get into the offices of the higher officials. The case of John T. Bourke is fresh in the minds of all newspaper reatf ers. Some persons that had been pas sengers on the train he worked tried to work a case of blackmail on him in order to sue the company. He was given a very raw deal by the com pany, and when he insisted on vindi cation a representative of the legal department told him that "if his five years in the Pullman service didn't thicken his hide so that he could stand that (his treatment) he had better resign," which he did." A conductor writes me from Phila delphia of the way they handed it to him, saying that if we had an organ ization he would still have been work ing, as he was let out for a trifling ex cuse and could get no hearing from the chief inspector's office. These officials go on the stand and say that the men can always get a hearing if they will take their trou bles to a higher official. We hope to soon be able to help them settle these matters ourselves, and as they have declared they are not antagonistic to organization among their employes we will give them a chance to be good and look on. The investigator for the commis sion said that out of 41 porters inves tigated 35 said they would rather have a salary of $50 per month than to work the way they were on tips. R. W. Bell, 12051 Parnell Av. ANSWER TO J. P Kindly inform me if Emma Goldman's lecture on birth restriction was recorded and where could I obtain a copy. J. P. Not printed. Postal censors rule printing such information is in viola tionof the law, which says nothing obscene shall go through the mails. Margaret Sanger is now under pros ecution in New York, with Anthony Comstock as the complaining wit ness, for printing a pamphlet on birth control WE THANK YOU! Noted in Thursday's Day Book the article by HharlfiS TiVlwnrrI T?iiboo11 nnmrrohi. Tating you on securing one as able as ne to write upon present conditions in Europe and elsewhere. A. C. Werl, 2800 South Park Av. - WANTS FAIR PLAY. I want to tell the readers of The Day Book of a sad and shameful incident I wit nessed the other day in a lunchroom at 35th and Indiana av. A well-dressed, refined and elderly colored man came in and sat down at the lunch counter. He sat there for 15 minutes, but the waiters avoided him. He finally asked to be waited on. A waiter replied: "We don't serve niggers." The old man was dumbfounded. He asked for the proprietor, who told him that he did not cater to colored trade, as the white folks objected. "Isn't my money as good as any white man's?" he asked. The proprietor did not even reply. Here I interfered and told the pro prietor that if he didn't serve .this 1 mmmmmmmsmm