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Show PLAN TO MOVE IDLE MEN IS ABANDONED Portland, Ore., March 14. Although Chief of Police John Clark planned yesterday to close at once the Gypsy Smitli Tabernacle, where 1500 Idle met have lodged during the winter,- it was decided later at a conference with Mayor H. R. Albec to postpone the action. April 1 probably will be the date on whlqh" tho men will be driven out and forced to accept employment or leave the city. The plan to rout the unemployed yesterday was the outgrowth of the refusal of most of then) to go to work as section hands for the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company. compa-ny. It was said that after a hundred hun-dred men had signed up, Industrial Workers of the World organizers induced in-duced them not to leave on the allegation alle-gation that tho railrodd was "unfair." . nn |