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NOON EDITION
ONE CENT
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RUSSIANS PLAN TO BURN WARSAW
EELLPHONE TRUST SHOWN AS UNION CRUSHER
JJEUT. BECKER HAS SIX MORE DAYS TO LIVE
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL. 4, NO. 251 Chicago, Thursday, July 22, 1915
398
TAKE STAND AGAINST
STARVATION WAGES
Workers Who Toil Under Artificial Light All Day Refi
to Longer Stand for Industrial Butchery
They Don't Live They Exist.
BY JANE WHITAKER
These are some stones to which I
listened yesterday. I can give you
only the skeletons of them because
I cannot draw for you in words the
throb in the voices of girls and wom
en and men who talked to me; I can
not portray for you the undercurrent
of despair alternating with hope that
I could feel so strongly I felt choked;
I cannot picture the nervous -movement
of hands that tried to illustrate
what tongues seemed unable to ex
press adequately, but there is
enough of industrial brutality in the
skeletons of the stories to suffice.
There are about a hundred gar
ment workers out on strike from the
shop of Kaplin & Lewis, contractors
on special order work for John C.
Gorman, mail order house. The
workers went on strike because of
the reduction in wages brought
about, they say, because Gorman low
ered his price for the work to Kap
lin & Lewis.
The shop in which these people
have toiled is not a desirable one
without starvation wages. The ven
tilation is poor and the ghi workers
told me that the windows are seldom
opened. There is a sponge machine
in the shop and the steam endangers
their health. They work under gas
or electric light all day.
But they were not rebelling over