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Show CRUEL FIRST OF APRIL JOKE i Hundreds of Unemployed Men Wait in Cold Rain for Hoax Job. Chicago, April 1. A cruel First of April joke perpetrated by some person per-son unknown to the police today caused a mob of more than 500 uncm-,ploycd uncm-,ploycd men to congregate In a cold rain In front of the Soo Line freight terminal. Before the men could be made to understand that there was no basis for the report that the railroad rail-road wanted hundreds of workers, the mob surged against tho steel gates, breaking the locks, and poured into the yards, shouting: "We want work give us the jobs." It took the police reserves nearly an hour to clear ,the men out of the yards. The perpetrator of the hoax will bo severely dealt with, it was said, If he can bo found. Some one gave out the tip among the hundreds of unemployed men gathered along West Madison street in front of tho wholesale emplojmcnt agencies. |