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,-.,1,41 HOnQaWaMl TRIB IS SUED FOR $25,000 AL LEGED LIBEL The Trib is in again. "Another li bel suit, this time for $25,000, has been filed against the morning pa per. The suit rises frornthe one of the numerous stories about Arba N. Wa terman and his deals with the Chi cago Title and Trust Co. and Carle ton Hudson-Betts, called the "count of Coxsackie". A West Side real estate dealer, Sol Rubin of 3530 W. 12th st, is suing the Tribune. According to his attor neys, Clark & Clark, he was libeled in a yarn printed on Jan. 6. The story as the Tribune told it ex plained how Hudson was accused of buying different pieces of property from the aged and infirm Judge Wa terman for $500 and selling them for $5,000. And Rubin was dragged in. An ambitious' Tribune reporter wrote a story claiming that Rubin admitted buying property from Wa terman at ridiculously low prices and selling it at a profit The Tribune had a "scoop" on Jan. 6, but the attorneys for Rubin say it will be a costly one if they can make it so. The "scoop," truth of which is denied by Rubin, reads in part: "Rubin admitted last night to The Tribune that he secured numerous pieces of property from Judge Wa terman since 1911. According to Rubin, he bought the property -and was given deeds. "How would you reach an agree ment on its price?" he was asked. "Well, we would talk it over and Mr. Hudson would talk it over with him and then I would pay what Judge Waterman asked. "Did you buy any property from him for $500 which later was sold for $5,000?" . "Sure I did, but it was what Judge Waterman asked for it" "Have you bought much property rrom Judge Waterman?" "Yes, I have bought about all he has sold." "No one else was let in on it?" "No." o o JOHN FITZPATRICK RAPS POLICE HEADS FOR STRIKE WORK The policy of the Chicago police department in time of strikes was condemned by John Fitzpatrick, president of the C. F. of L., at a hear ing of the council police committee Tuesday. Fitzpatrick roundly scored the strike tactics of First Deputy Scheuttler, Chief of Detectives Nick Hunt and Capt "Paddy" Labin, Hyde Park station. "Lavin," said Fitzpatrick, "is paid by the city, and is supposed to grant the city his service and to take his orders from the city. But does he? When he wants to. He pays first heed to the packing house interests. During the stockyards strike Lavin exerted every energy to break the strike. His treatment of labor has been foul and unjust "Then there is First Deputy Schuettler. He is always making shakeups in the police department, sending captains and lesser officers or patrolmen to the "bushes," for the good of the service. But the loop district is full of gamblers, slug gers, crooks and murders, and Schuettler has direct charge of the loop yet he is not switched to Eeg wich.for the good of the service. "Both Lavin and Nick Hunt were once forced out of the department under charges. Both are back and in good jobs. Both are harsh in their treatment of labor, unfair, too. Hunt has never missed an opportunity, it seems, to do an injury to labor when the interests wanted a blow in flicted." Henry Strauss, president of the Wholesale Tailor's ass'n, told the committee that the girl workers in the clothing factories drew fine wages, that some got $24 and $25 "a week and the average weekly pay was $14 or $15 a week.