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Show j Free-f or-Ali Oratory i Contest Confab Feature1 i i i . CHICAGO. April S. A" free-for-all' oratorical conin developed today when .S. E. Heberling, Internationa', president of the Switchmen's union, attempted at a meeting today to per-j per-j suado 500 strikers to return to work. I The meeting at '.first broke up, re-; re-; formed and then melted away when Ilebcrling departtwl. Many times the union head was forced to quit talking j whiie tho crowd hooted. j "Wall street." and "Are you with us; or against ua?" the men shouted as 1 Heberling told them a strike wv: va3 unwise. "Walt and you will get the Incrcaso you need In a lawful faahlon.'" he urged, "Von arc under contract j with the railroads, and a strike would I be unlawful. -' Do you think switch-1 men arc bigger than the government?" govern-ment?" 'Patrick Henry and George Wash- ington were rebels, loo. one time," IS. i E.' Kerr. Chicago yardmen's assoeia-1 tlon organizer, answered. "You sayi we can't strike lawfully. But what, the masses say is law." I . nn |