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Show Hope This Woman Phones in Result of Her Pourparlers REVERSING the usual order of things, the moral of this yarn Is told in the first instead of the last. It is, "Don't hold out on the old lady!" Yesterday morning a woman, using the phone, asked for The Tribune's labor editor. "I saw in The Tribune yesterday that journeymen plumbers are getting $7 a day. Is that right?" she asked. "No. madarne," the labor .editor admitted, admit-ted, "it is incorrect." "Well, that's what I thought," the woman returned, employing: a tone that implied a conviction that the newspaper was wrong, as usual. "They are getting $S," the editor gratuitously gra-tuitously offered. "What's that?" the questioner exploded. "Eight dollars a day, madam." Then the editor volunteered the information that the basis of the story was the rate of pay received by plumbers a month ago, explaining that the new scale became effective ef-fective on September 3. "The men get $1 per hour for an eight-hour day." Evidently assured that the editor was telling the truth, the woman thundered over the wire: "Well. I'll be darned! Wait till my husband gets home tonight. He's been telling me he gets only to a day." |