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mm&m NOON EDITION ONE CENT BIG F100D SWEEPS INTO LIMA, OHIO HOUSE FLOATS AWAY; BUILDINGS SUBMERGED R. R. GETS A PERMIT; CALLED TERMINAL STEAL ' THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL 4, NO. 246 Chicago, Friday, July 16, 1915 3 BIG VICTORY FOR THE STREET CAR MEN 77 Men Get Practically Qverything They Asked For Com."' pony Will Not Take Case Into Court Employes to Get Million More in Salaries, The street car men are going to get, through the arbitration board, practically- everything they asked of the company before they went on strike. In every car station in the service today there were cheers for Maclay Hoyne and Wm. Hale Thompson, members of the board who voted for concessions to the men. The men are elated. Here is just what the arbitration board did for the men: Men asked for maximum pay of 36 cents an hour. Will get 35 cents an hour this year and 36 cents there after. .- Men, asked '33 cents an hour roink mum wage. Will get 26 cents this' year and 17 cents an hour thereafter. Men asked reduction of wage grad ing period from five years to one year. Cot reduction to four years. Men asked for 8-hour workday on Sundays. Got rt Men asked that night trainment get $3 pay for 8 hours' work. Got it Men asked 10 minutes' allowance for turning in receipts at end of day. Get 7 minutes. Men asked 3 to 5 per cent increase for shop employes. Get it. Besides the above grants by the ar-. bitration board, the company agreed the day before arbitration proceed ings started that it "would increase lijSiii4liililSitltam