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Show FLAT JANITORS ! ARE SUPERIOR Won't Have Wives Mentioned Men-tioned in Contracts; . Better Than Tenants. CHICAGO. Nov. 10. Fist jarjltors insist in-sist that the mention of their wives be omitted from future contracts made with the real estate board. A clause in the ' contracts under which the janitors liavw ben working for the last three years provides "that his wife shall at all times be ready to assist him when called upon to do bO." "A man's wife is too sacred a person to be made a party to a business contract and the flat Janitors will not permit any such clause to enter into our new contracts." con-tracts." said Secretary John J. Hanni-gan Hanni-gan of the Amalgamated Flat Janitors' union ' yesterday. "The average Janitor," Mr. Hanigan continued, "is superior in education, in intellect, and in culture to the occupants of most of the pretentions apartment- houses In the boulevards. The public does not Imagine the troubles the janitor is needlessly put to. Some women call him Into the house to assist In the housework, house-work, and if he would permit it. would force him to take care of the baby while she goes down town to shop." |