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ONE CENT ONE CENT NOON EDITION ALL THE LOCAL NEWS-FULL UNITED PRESS SERVICE IS HANDY TO READ THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 5, NO. 93 Chicago, Monday, January 17, 1916 398 INDUSTRIAL (OMISH IS NOT GETTING RIGHT PRESS BACKING Manly Tells How Some Papers Refuse to Print News Facts on Industrial Situation Explains Real Cause of Youngstown Riots. , The whole steel industry is ripe for a strike. Strikes will come with increasing violence 'unless A further wage increase of 20 per cent is granted, an eight-hour day is established and the system of indus trial terrorism, established by the steel trust among its 230,000 slaves, is abolished. This is part of the report of George West, a former newspaper man, to Basil Manly,, secretary -of the -Ul S.. committee on industrial relations, who unfolded it to the Chicago Fed eration of Labor yesteray. Manly asked the federation to ap point a Chicago committee on in dustrial relations and that this body co-operate with, the central organiza tion at Washington. After his talk Pres. John Fitzpatrick was instruct ed to do this. Manly said: "The mam committee is reaching" 2,000 newspapers. Some of .the pa .pers have refused to publish tfie-facts' . i mmmmmmmmmmm,tMuMmmmMmm