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READ THIS WEEK'S CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
MILLIONS TIED UP IN LABOR WAR
(WHOLE CITY WILL SUFFER BY BOSSES' MOVE
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL. 4, NO. 231 Chicago, Monday, June 28, 1915
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YVHArS LIVING WAGE?
MAY BE DECIDED
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Through the Carmen's Arbitration Thompson, Hoyne
and Sheean Hold First Important Session Wage
Proposition Looms Up as Biggest Point.
Arbitration of the wage demands
of street car men may result in set
tlement of a greater question. What
is a fair living wage for a man with
a family?
This query was brought up by
Samuel Alschuler, an attorney for
the car men, as he opened the ar
bitration proceedings with a plea for
the families of wage earners.
"These men are entitled to a fair
living wage, regardless of whether
or not a crowd of millionaire stock1
holders get their dividends," de
clared Alschuler. "We union men.
therefore, will leave it to the board of
arbitration to decide what is a living
wage."
This is understood to be a demand
for about $1,200 a year, as President
Mahon of the international union pre
pared a table in which he showed that
to be the average amount necessary
for the upkeep of a workingmen's
family.
James M. Sheean, arbiter on be
half of the car companies, in an an
swer to Alschuler, asked. that the
question of dividends be left out of
the discussion.
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