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Show MONSTER LAUNDRY FOR NAVY PLANNED CHICAGO. O.l. 30. No more will the boys at the great lakes naval 1 ruining station have 10 combine plain and fancy laundry work with t heir preparations for extending cordial and forceful sircettngs to the kaiser's fleer. An enormous laundry. -tii largest in i he navy, and capable of washing ltO'U,0"-0 p:ers of c:o;hlng a week, wi'.j he out into operation this week. Ai present th1 boys have to wash their own clothes a nd in the summer ; time at !east that means that each of the 2l.0'10 men has to wash a suit of white clothes each day. SWITCHMEN TO ASK 50 PER CENT RAISE CHICAGO, Oct. 30. Demands for a 50 per cent wage increase will be submitted to the railroads of the T'nited States by the memlx.-rs of the Switchmen's Union of North America as a result of action taken by a special committee at a two days' meeting which ended here today. The Adamson law enacted in 11)16 to avert a threatened strike, reduced the daily hours of labor of the switchmen from ten to eight, but did not increase their earnings. |