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out the gifts that you have
planned to make. If yOO
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the same wages as men for the same
amount of work.
They have given the country every
law in every state in the union that
stands for 1 better condition of the
masses even ' giving us the public
school system.
They decrease the hours of labor
wherever the number of unemployed
in any one branch of tabor increases
to such an extent as to threaten tti
standard scale of wages.
: They furnish employment for un
employed. ,
They furnish homes for the aged
and disabled.
They care for the sick.
Furnish money to the unemployed.
They bury the dead.
Is there anything in the above for
the members of the Farmers' Union
to fight shy of or for any other kind
of person to fear? Union Banner,
Agricultural.
MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS,
BOY'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS,
CHILDREN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS,
$10 to $40
$3.50 to $20
98c to $12
Besides the substantial jifts of Suits and Overcoats, we have an endless variety of clever things, wearable for Men, Boys and children
MFCKWEAR. Me to M.00 I HOSIERY . . 15c te $3.50 I GLOVES, . . 25c to $5.00 I Handkerchiefs, 5c to $1.00 I MUFFLERS, 25e to $5.00
SWEATERS, 50c to $7.50 House Coats, $2.98 to $20
SHIRTS, . $1.00 to $3.50
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CAPS ... 50c to $15.00 6RIPS, $1.50 to $25.00
GENERAL MENTION. A
Factory Inspector Edgar T. Da-
vies of Illinois has gone for a trip
through Europe to study subjects con
nected with his department. The
working of the state insurance law
in Germany will receive special at
tention from Mr. Davies. He expects
also to gather valuable information
regarding sweatshop regulations, es
pecially in London. He will be gone
about six weeks. .
The Painters' Union at Cedar Ra
pids, la., has completed its agreement
with the master painter for union con
ditions after a two year regime of
non-union shop rule.
Cedar Rapids, la., reports one of
the shortest strikes on record that
of 60 building tradesmen striking and
adjusting the matter within less than
five minutes. ,
Besides all these things in which we excel there are hundreds of other things, such as Men's Jewelry,
Umbrellas, Canes, Leather Collar Boxes, and the like, that may be found here in greater abundance
than in any other store and at prices which will be found more than satisfactory.
Armstrong Clothing Co.
Good Clothes Merchants
THE EFFECTS GOOD.
Child Labor Agitation Productive of
Many Good Results.
If the agitation for a federal child
labor law on the lines of the lieveridge
bill must fail of its specific purpose,
it has by no means failed of much
good achievement. The abuse has
been exposed and forced on the at
tention of the public as never before,
nd the results of the federal inquiry
re yet to follow. Practical good will
result. The state that refuses to get
ii breast of the demands of humanity,
civilization and American good citizen
ship in this matter will find itself
pilloried before public opinion, and
self-reform will follow. In its indirect
results the workTof the National Child
Labor committee, in agitating for a
federal law, is by no means a failure.
Chicago Record-Herald.
8TEREOTYPER NOTES.
Stereotypers and electrotypers re
ported as follows to the A. F. of L.:
Clmrters issued, 7; surrendered, 1
Gain in membership, thirty-nine. Num
ber of strikes, three; pending, 1. Cost
of strikes (to international alone), $7,-
213.56. Death benefits, $2,400. In the
December Journal Vice President Frey
says that No. 31 of Cincinnati has
practically won their long strike and
that it is now able to take care of
those members who are without
steady situations. The referendum
vote was in favor of the entire thirty
one propositions and new laws ap
proved at the last convention.
THERE AINT NONE, NO HOW.
. "Doc" Righter has installed a third
machine in his' Lincoln plant. His
old friends in Omaha and elsewhere
will be glad to hear of his prosperity.
Few Lincoln union men are righter
than "Doc" Righter. Western La
borer.
A FATAL JOKE.
And Now the Jokers 'Will be Tried for
Murder.
Council Bluffs, la., Dec. 14. Edward
Roberts and Edward Deshler were
held to be responsible for the death
of Samuel Moffil, in a verdict returned
at the close of an inquest by a cor
oner's jury yesterday afternoon, .but
no recommendation was made that
they be prosecuted, the finding being
that the fatal injury was inflicted in
sport.
Moffil died from a rupture of the
lirge intenstine by compressed air.
The men were employed at the Union
Pacific roundhouse, and the injury
was inflicted while they were playing
practical jokes on each other.
THE RESULT.
During the past year the Boot and
Shoe Workers' Union has conducted
an advertising campaign for the pur
pose of increasing the stale of union
stamp shoes. This campaign em
braces advertising in news dailies,
magazines, trade papers, billboards
and circular letters to the homes.
They have, made a direct appeal to
2,000,000 homes to buy union-stamp
shoes. In addition fifteen organizers
are constantly visiting local unions,
labor conventions, and other gather
ings, distributing advertising matter
throughout this country and Canada.
What has been the result? During the
past yer.r hundreds of retailers who
2 Per Cent off on all Suits
PER
CEHT
Off on all Fur Coats
Off on all Women's Suits
Qff on all Caracule Coats
C 1 on all Children's Coats
Orf on all Children's Fur Sets
Off on all Furs
THEPDAYL1GHT STOREOr
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did not ' before handle union-stamp
shoes now have them on sale. Cloth
ing Trades Bulletin.
While switching Yost's foot became
tangled up with a switch chain rod
and he was thrown in front of a train.
The engine and two cars passed over
his leg. He brought suit against the
company for $50,000. The case was
carried to the United States court, and''
on December 15 at Kansas City, in
Judge Porterfield's court decision, Yost
secured a verdict f6r $25,000.
BAILEY SQUARE.
J. A. Bailey, jr., has signed up with
the local union of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers, and is again on the
fair list. This situation was brought
about by a series of consultations
marked by the utmost good nature. -Mr.
Bailey, who has since taken a
partner, refused to sign up at the.
time of the strike two years ago, but
ras since learned by experience The
union men, to, have learned some
thing, and now that firm and union
are in accord once more here's hoping
that both will succeed to the utmost.
- MRS. HEBBARD ILL.
Mrs. F. H. Hebbard, wife of the pop
ular and efficient, financial secretary
of Lincoln Typographical Union No. .
j 209, has been seriously ill for two
weeks. Appendicitis was threatened
tor a time. At last reports Mrs. Heb
bard was better.
HIGH-PRICED LEG.
Charles W. Yost of North Platte was
a Union Pacific brakeman until he met
with an accident that cost him a leg.
, ISN'T THIS THE TRUTH?
In restoring the 'Brewery Workers'
charter and ordering an early confer
ence between representatives of the
f interested unions, says the Vermont
Signal, the AA F. of L.'done the. only
thing possible to. bring about a set
tlement ' of , the deplorable contest
waged between warring organization! -In
the breweries for twelve months
past. Trades unionists have enough
to contend " with in these stirring
times without wasting their energy by
fighting one another, the strenuous
advocates of industrial unions and,
trades autonomy to the contrary not
withstanding, v.
ONE WHO "STUCK."
Louis F. Taylor, one of the Asso
ciated Press operators who struck and
stuck, is now pleasantly located at
Harold, Nebraska, in the service of
the Burlington. Taylor was secretary
of the local Commercial Telegraphers'
Union, and fought the good fight to
the finish and then some. ' When the
strike was declared off he refused to
go back to the service of the Western
Union, but entered the railroad serv
ice. With his wife and baby he lives
ia Harold, where the work is com
paratively easy, the pay good and
life really, worth living. Besides
which he has a clear conscience and
that's worth a lot to any good union
man. .
PRINTER STATISTICS.
The official report of the I. T. U.
officers to the A. F. of L. is as fol
lows: From May 31, 1906. to May
31, 1907: Charters issued, 28; surrend
ered, 37. General scale increase in
sixteen cities, in newspaper scale in
fifty-one cities, in book and job scale
In twenty-six cities. ' Arbitration
agreements are in force in seventy
nine cities. Cost of strike, $1,468,-
841.52. The organization has expended
approximately $4,000,000 to date in es
tablishing the eight-hour day for its
members. Death benefits, $39,270.
NAILING SOME LIES.
Farmers' Union Paper Spikes Opposi
tion to Trades Unions.
The Farmere' Union members are
besieged on all sides by people who
seem very anxious for their success,
and who invariably say: "You will
succeed if you will have nothing to
do with the trade unions."
The awful trade unions!
They seem to worry a lot of people.
Let's see what they are and .have
been doing: ' '
They have freed hundreds, aye,
thousands, of little children from the
sweatshops and put them : in " the
schools.
They have forced the employers to
give workmen airy, comfortable work
shops, and in this way reduced the
mortality from consumption1 many,
per cent in some crafts lengthening
the life of the mechanic twelve years,
according to carefully kept statistics.
They, In many branches of labor,
forced the employers to pay women
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