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luummimvmmmmmMmmm NEW MILITARY CLUB FORMED FOR YOUNG MEN A chance for the .young fellow to get military training without being subject to call as a strikebreaker is offered by a new Organization, the Chicago Military Rifle club. According to John F. Struthers. the president, a former, army man, there are no "highbrows" "among the pres ent rmemhersl)ip of fifty. Just com mon- good fellows with a friendly spirit and a desire to be ready when the time comes, if war may be our lot, make up the roster. The club has already organized, has held several business meetings and three shoots, one at Cainp Logan and and two at the Sportsman's club on Michigan av. It is affiliated with the National Rifle ass'n, the standard military or ganization recognized by the govem meAt, and will get the use of the Ft. Sheridan rifle range when a sufficient njimber of members have joined. A thorough training in shooting of the revolver and rifle and the regula tion army rifle drill are attempted by the' club. 'It is not affiliated with the state, but operates directly under federal supervision. This remoyes it from the strikebreaking class. Its offices are at 620 N. Dearborn st o o CLOTHING WORKERS APPROVE BETTERMENT DEMANDS At two mass meetings last night clothing workers approved demands to be submitted by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to clothing manufacturers for increase in wages, 50-hour week, with over time at pay and a half and provision f6r apprentices, arbitration board to settle disputes, abolition of present no notice discharge, fining" systems and blacklisting agencies and recog nition of the union. Manufacturers will be given a week from time de mands are presented to state their decision. If they refuse to arbitrate difference between, clotfyng jworkejs and themselves general strike will bei called. Will embrace nearly -50,000 workers. READY TO PUT UP SCRAP ON: INSULL'S LIGHT PLAN ; Sam Insull's electric octopus will; bump into an obstacle when it tries to pull the street lighting contract of, Cicero, out of the hands o'f the sani-, tary district Wallace G. Clark, trusr. tee of the sanitary board, who wonT Q tne utie watcnaog or tne drainage r board" by his careful eye on the cash, of the district, is going to put up at scrap. "The Public Service Co. of North? ern Illinois will have a hard time get-j ting the street lighting contract fronv the city of Cicero even if the boarij; of trustees of the place vote to give i to them. w,t "We have a contract with three years to run and they must get our consent before they can step in and take the work out of our hands. Per, mission will not get through the sanr, itary board as long as I am a trustee "After considerable pressure hatfj been put upon us we gave up thjsf commercial lighting contracts which we held in the place. Now the big, lighting interests want us to bacfc away entirely. "The cheap prices which the sanin( tary district has been able to offer uL Northern Illinois has long rankled theft hearts of the big lighting interests. a! "The prices of the opposing inter3r ests are about 25 per cent higher than." those which Cicero is now gettingJ3 The suburb will pay $5.50 for th same light which it now gets for3 $4.10. We will stand by our contragtx no matter what the Cicero boad votes to do." (r lira The loss of a million and a ha.lf lives may not be sufficient to appea$e European honor, but it is enough fa disgrace modern civilization. y0fi o o lam Copies of city payroll, printed months ago, still suppressed dsl HftfaMtitt ifciUw