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Show NO WORK, NO FOOD, IS POLICY OF GRANT Contends Unemployed Should Be Willing Will-ing to Accept Chances Offered by City. B. F. Grant, chief of police, is still standing firmly upon his original Erround in the matter of providing tood for the unemployed of tne city, and declares that unless the men agree to work the $500 appropriated by the city commission commis-sion for their relief will remain unspent. The unemployed, speaking through O. J". Jackson, their leader, contend that $1.50 per day, the wage offered by the citjj is not enough, and refuse to accept it. In the meantime the men remain idle and the $500 intact in the safe of the city treasurer.. The men demand $2.25 per dav but this scale has been refused bv Chief Grant, who contends that any honest man out of a job and hungrv'will work for $1.50 per diem and glad of the chance. John Murray, arrested on a bench warrant after having been given a "floater" in police court, was released yesterdav. O. J. Jackson appeared be- 1 fore Judge Rogers at a special session ' of the city court and produced testi- , mony supporting Murray's statement : that" he was working for the unemployed organization. Murray was originally arretted ar-retted on a charge of vagrancy. |