To the editors:
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The union to which I belong, Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, has been around since 1852 and has seen many instances of greatness and stupidity in city government. The latter kind found its epitome during the Loop flood. The union’s Reporter for June reported as follows:
“For those of us who have been following the flood story, one of the errors in the city’s judgment, aside from breaking up the department of public works that had repaired two tunnel breaches earlier, was to send film taken of a breach in the city’s tunnel system to a drug store for developing. It took one week to get the film back. What is unbelievable is that the photo lab inside city hall could have developed the film in two hours, an entire week earlier. The tunnel could have been repaired before the city was flooded.
