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Alex is keeping in condition and
having a good time on a big hunting
trip at Ferndale lake, Texas, where
he expects to remain until a short
time before the Phillies gather at St.
Petersburg, Fla., for their spring
training.
And Alex declares he will be in the
best shape of his career.
"The outdoor life is great," he told
friends. "It keeps a man fit-and does
not allow him to put on extra flesh in
the winter.''
Alex is almost as good a hunter as
he is a pitcher, and he has been re
markably successful during the win
ter. Bill Killifer, Philly catcher, and
Oscar Dugey, infielder, were in the
same hunting party with Alexander.
FORM BANK CLERKS' UNION
A union of bank clerks, the first of
its kind in the -world to the knowl
edge of its organizers, was formed in
Chicago Monday evening. In its first
meeting at 11,44 S. Halstedover 50
clerks joined the union.
A charter will De asked of the
American Federation of Labor and
the local branch. Better hours, high
er wages and regular union condi
tion with recognition 1 are the de
mands the bank clerks will make.
Dozens of West Side banks are the
first to be touched by the plans of
the clerks.
A second meeting, at which Aid.
Rodriguez will address the clerks on
unionism will he held Friday night
at 1144 S. Halsted. All bank clerks
invited. Election of officers will then
be held.
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STRIKE HITS RJBBACK &.QO.
Better wages, shorter hours and
recognition of the union the old dry
of labor brought "out 150 ladies'
garment workers at Nat Ribback &
Co., wholesale dressmakers, yester
day. Pickets were expected In front
of the building at 237 S. Market st
today.
A. Bisno, organizer of the local
union, said that the Ribback
was only the first to be. expected,
If nthor firma tnriU- thA stand thl
Ribback did there would be more
trouble soon. ,
LAND1S TELLS O'HARA -TO GO
AFTER EDITORS WITH CLUB
Lieut.-Gov. Barratt O'Hara yester
day ripped into the newspapers which
played up the fact that he was called
to testify before Judge K M. Landis
in the bond ring cases. He said they
made it appear that he had connec-'
tions with the bonding crowd. Judge
Landis advised him to get a club and
go after the editors of such papers.
The way they featured his name in
connection with the Landis investiga
tion is pointed at by some as a result
of his white slave investigation as
chairman of the state senate commit
tee which dragged some of our most
important department store and mail
order millionaires into the limelight
as men who forced girls to lives of
shame by low wages.
O'Hara, at Landis' suggestion, tele
graphed Bob Clarke, a Minneapolis
newspaper man, formerly O'Hara's
secretary, to come to Chicago and
teH what he knows about certain
bum bonds. Landis says he will bring
Clarke back if he doesn't come wil
Ungly. NEW PLAN FOR SPREADING
BIRTH CONTROL FACTS
A new. plan for dispemination of
birth control facts was suggested
yesterday by Dr. Rachelle Yarros of
the Woman's club, one of those who
have undertaken the work of educat
ing the women of the poor in pre
ventative methods. ,
"We are going to establish several
high-grade clinics , wher6 lectures
may be made to all women interest
ed," she declared today. "I think this
is a better way to impart knowledge
than by pamphlets which may fall
into young hands and be misconstrued."
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