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Show CITY OFFICIALS DON OLD CLOTHES TO FIGHT H. C. L The wearing- of old clothes Instead In-stead of overalls aa a protest against tho high cost of clothing will bo advocated, and the plan will be put into action by Mayor . Frank Francis, members of tho city commission and all city employes, em-ployes, according to an announcement announce-ment mado today by Mayor Francis. Fran-cis. Tho original plan of a "overall" club, which was formed at tho city hall, has boon necessarily neces-sarily disbanded through the failure fail-ure of the members to procure the denims. An offort was made to procure enough overalls to clotho the members of tho club this morning, but it was found that it will tako several days to .fill the ordor. In tho meantimo tho city employes em-ployes will bo urged to wear their old clothing until the overall order or-der can bo filled or tho price of clothing falls. "With the idea firmly in mind of wearing overalls, an effort was mado to procure tho denims for our club," Mayor Francis said, "but we discovered that tho manufacturer man-ufacturer is far behind in orders, and to demand immediate delivery deliv-ery would mean the working of hardship on working pooplo who need them In their employment. If wo can procure thorn without depriving theso people, wc will wear them at tho first opportunity," opportuni-ty," Mayor Francis declared. oo |