Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.
On a typical day, customers will stream out with 125 USA Todays, 250 to 300 Wall Street Journals, 300 to 350 Daily Newses, 550 to 600 New York Timeses, and 4,500 to 5,000 New York Posts.
In Chicago these latter were receiving, for the most part, eighteen and a half cents an hour, and the unions wished to make this the general wage for the next year.
The Chicago Blackhawks . . . will have a slew of decisions to make and contracts to sign. . . . [T]eam captain Jonathan Toews and designated clutch artist Patrick Kane need extensions.