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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, May 04, 1916, NOON EDITION, Image 12

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LOCAL GARMENT UNIONS NEAR
TO BREAKING OFF F0'Wf
-GhiedgO Will have the record
breaking number of 50,-000 Wofkefs
iii feBlliott, oft H6.jpB, 6ii strike, at
the eiid of this week, from the look
of things now. Ontop of the 15,000
Harvester employes, and 5,000 foun
dry, terra cotta and othef workers
now out may come 30,000 garment
workers. At Amalgamated Clothing
Workers headquarters it was stated
today that Pres. Sidney Hillman will
not leave Chicago for an lnSportant
meeting of the national executive
board of his union at Rochester,
N. Y.. because the local Unions are
close to breaking off all talk and go
ing to a strike again at the Kutipen
heimer, Rosenwald & Weil, Alfred
Decker &' Cohn and other shops of
the Wholesale Clothiers ass n.
It is realiably reported that Jacob
Abt, secretary of the association, de
livered important information to the
members of the association at a
meeting behind closed doors in Fort
Dearborn hotel Monday bight, after
the big May Day parade of the cloth
ing workers Who have sighed a three
year agreement with Hart, Schaffner
& Marx and smaller houses.
With 50,0d0 Workera in several
leading industries on strike, it is con
ceded the police force will be kept
under strict orders in the strike dis
tricts and robbers abd safeblowers
and pickpo5Kts will have an easier
field than m normal weeks.
Of course, peace may come at any
h"ir in both harvester and clothing
industries'. The chances are, how
ever, that both will drag for some
days. While peace rumors today
came from the state arbitration
board and. JHafvester company of
fices) the" American Federation of
labor made its biggest Hove at df
initely lining up the Harvester strik
ers in one solid organization. Em
met Flood and other" A, F .of ,L. or
ganizers spoke to crowds of strikers
ifter a parade of thousands, led by,
Kennedy's brass band, marched from
MeCSrmle'k' t6 DeefiHg wGfks.
Harvester strikers are of niany na
tions and languages, Slavic ahd Teu
tonic, though the Harvester trust ad
vertises in newspapers suggesting it
may be a war order strike and stat
ing the company doesii't nlaaUfac
tiife munitions.
The strikers have meeting halls,
but no roil calls, dues, strike funds,
relief funds or other organization
machinery that goes with a winning
strike. This week is expected to tell
the story whether they get pay rais
es and steadier employment, which
are their main demands.
SWIFT & CO. FOUND GUILTY ON
TWENTY-NINE COUNTS
Swift & Co., packers, Have been
found guilty of violating the inter
state commerce law against rebating
and faces a fine of $580,000.
The company was found guilty on
all of the 29 counts on which it was
indicted. The verdict was given by a
jury in Federal Judge Landis' court
Att'y jas. Sheean, for Swift & Co.,
at once made a motion for new trial.
Indictment of Swift & Co. was on
strength of charges that it had ob
tained concessions from published
rates of the Chi. & Northwestern and
Ann Arbor railroads by payment of
carload rates to the Northwestern
roads when the cars were not filled
a1 " should not have been hauled at
ca.-Oad rates.
FALLS FROM TRIBUNE WAGON
Jos. Sticker. 25. 1326 Kedzie av
was seriouslv inlured when hp full
from a wagon of the Chicago Daily
Tribune Wednesday. n)
Stinker fell when the W7 n trrtn
swerved as it attempted to turn the
corner at high speed at Allis and Mil
waukee avs. Roth of Sticker's Ipcto
were injured and he was hurt internally.
Headache is nature's warninsr that
the human machine is running badly.

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