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We Make These Prices This Week
And if you will compare the prices with the goods, you will appreciate the saving to you. The store teems with
wonderful bargains which we have never equaled before at this time of the year. Come as early in the week as possible
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Cloakroom's Special Sale of Silk
Coats and Spring Jackets
For the next six days w lrill give
you wonderful values. and want you to
take advantage of this sale, as such
v . a . ,
r rare vames are not. onereu imiueui-
i3 br.
fly k '1 . It is not an old stoek in this assort
3$ raent. They are 1907 and 1908 seasons'
pattern garments. Some lines broken in
' SILK COATS
tit Black Taffeta Etons; ?4 length .
sleeves; full gray satin lined;
A values t 7 ."i) SS.-jrt and &ll)-
sixes 32. 34. 40. and 44;
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J IS V W. 2S-inn fen?111 Loose Coats; braid
34 to 44; special sale $4-95
50-inch black Taffeta Coats; braid trimmed; $150
and $13.50 values; sites 32, 34, 36 and 38; speeial
sale. $7.95
50-inch Black Taffeta Coats; braid trimmed; have plaits
on front and back; $15.95 values; sizes 34, 38 and
42; special sale $9.95
One-Fifth Off on all other lines of Loose and Half Fitting
Silk Coats.
Taffeta Silk "Waist Suits; brown, navy and black; 34, 38
and 40 sizes; $13.50 regular value ; speeial sale $8.95
AH Taffeta Silk Jumper Suits at special cut prices.
RTT.K PETTICOATS
$4.95 line; special sale price. .......$2.95
$5.95 line; special sale price $3.95
$$.50 line; extra wide; special sale price -..$4.95
$9.00 and $9.50 lines; silk under flounce; sale price $5.95
SPRING JACKETS AT $3.95
45 garmeuts; woolen checks and plaids; coverts, French
flannels in dark and light colors; loose, semi-fitting and fit
ting styles; regular values $4.95, $5.95, $6.75, $7.50 and
$11.50; special price $3.95
One-Fifth Off on entire line of Children's Spring Jackets.
Hisses' Accordion Pleated Skirts; $3.95 values; ..your
choice at . $2.50
Ladies Black Wool Serge Skirts; $5.50 values; special
" sale $3.95
Ladies Wool Panama Skirts; all desirable colors; $6.75
and $5.95 values ; speeial price....... $4.95
WAE5TINGS TO CLOSE
35 pieces of Waistings, such as mercerized plaids. Kaye
embroidered, embroidered jaequards and plain silkized
poplins; values up to 60e; now, to close 25c
WHITE tHJULRS SSTEULai
43 pieces of fancy White Suitings, such as dotted Swisses,
embroidered Swisses, barred Swisses, checked Swisses,
mercerized brocade and novelties; now on speeial
sale 25c
-DOMESTIC SPECIALS
100 pieces of fast colored Dress Prints in colors gray, in
digo, red and black; 7c values; this week 5c
25 pieces of 10c Brown Linen Crash Toweling: special 8c
36-inch Diamond Hill Muslin Cambric ; 121,-cent quality;
special
36-inch Brown LL Muslin; Preston quality; special this
week -. - 5c
2S-inch Dress Percales; dark styles only; 8e value: to
close 6c
60 pieces of 32-inch Dress Percales in light or dark colors;
our regular 12t&e quality; to close ..9c
36-inch standard quality Silkolines in plain and fancy Per
sian and floral designs; now, to close 9c
10 pieces Art Tickings; floral designs; special to close 22
25 PIECES SUITING 12e
25 pieces of Plain White Linen Finished Suitings ; 34 inches
wide; this week, special 12VC
Pure Linen White Suitings; 36 inches wide: at 25c, 40c
and 50c
Colored Dress Linens; at 15c, 25c, 35c and 50c
40-INCH WHITE LAWN 9c
One case of 40-ineh White Lawn ; worth to 20e ; bought by
us at a verv low price; speeial 9c
LARGE BATH TOWELS 12c
200 dozen; see window display; bleached, unbleached,
fringed or plain hemmed, in various sizes: towels that
you will want when you see them; all 3-ply Turkish;
now at 2 for 25c
- NEW BELTINGS
10 pieces of new Persian Belting in all the staple shades
as well as the new novelties; some finished in gilt; IV;
inches wide; special price; per inch 1V2C
917-321 O St. OPPOSITE CITY HALL
H0IRE SKIRTING 19c
25 pieees of Moire Skirtings; 27 inches wide; in colors
black, brown, tan, gray, pink, light blue, navy, Co
penhagen, greens, old rose and wine; speeial for
only. 1 . 19e
Other Black Moire Skirtings, at 35c, 40c 50c and 75c
Bring r.p the child in the way 1e
should go and well, he can go better
if he has good shoes our kind we
mean. Shoes that are built for
comfort, serviee and look. Not a dif
ficult combination when the maker
knows how.
Boys' Shoes, $2.75, $20, $2X0
$1.75 and $L50
Girls' Shoes, $225, $2.00, $1.75,
$1.50 and $L25
High and Low Cut Shoes that we
think are the best Children's Shoes on
earth. Test them and then form your
opinion.
BLACK SILKS
A lot of 36-inch Black Guaranteed Taffetas, but as we
wish to close these numbers we take the guarantee off
and close them at a price unheard of; worth to $1.50;
to elose . . ... 75c
5 pieees of 36-inch Black Leather Taffeta; guaranteed
quality; our regular $1.25 value; this week. ............ 90c
36-inch Black Oil Boiled Taffeta Silk; wear guaranteed;
$1.50 value $115
22-inch Black Peau de Soie; a very, serviceable cloth;
85e value .. ..... . .. -63c
27-inch Double Faeed Peau de Soie; speeial- value $1.50;
now ...$1.18
3G-ineh Black Peau dc Soie ; a splendid fabrie for suits and
coats; $1.25 value ......SSe
HANDKERCHIEF SPECIALS
50 dozen Women's Plain Hemstitched Handkerchiefs; good -value
; 2 for 5c, or dozen . . . .25c
A lot of Women's Initial Handkerchiefs; special 10 cent
values; 4 for ... .25e
30 dozen Women's Plain Hemstitched and Embroidery
Handkerchiefs; worth to 18e each; some slightly soiled;
special, to close, 3 for . 23a
Choice of all 25e Embroidery or Hemstitehed Handker
chiefs . . ...15
GOSSIP OF THE TOILERS.
Latest
News
Mills
of Workers In
and Workshops.
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Shipwrights recently organized a
union in Chicago. IU.
Five thousand people find employ
ment in the Canadian paper industry.
A strike of lathers recently occurred
in Duluth, Minn, against the- open
shop.
National Print Cutters Association
will hold its annual convention on May
IS. at York. Pa.
British colliery engine men decided
at a recent meeting to join the Na
tional Federation.
Wages in Tokio are considerably
h:gher than those paid elsewhere in
Japan. Carpenters in Tokio get thirty
Ova cents a day.
The hod carriers international body
has 292 branches of the association
distributed in the United States and
Canada.
Union bricklayers at Hamilton. Can
ada, recently secured a three-year
agreement at fifty cents an hoar and
an eight-hour day.
The number of persons employed in
the mines of the t'nited Kingdom in
190? was S40.1S an increase of SS,-
2T3 over ISO.
A charter has been granted for the
formation of an electricians' union in
San Mateo, Cat. to be under the juris
diction of San Francisco.
The Federated Council of the or
ganizations of shopmen employed at
all points of the N. Y N. H, 4e H. R
R was made permanent recently.
Seattle (Wash.) Builders Exchange
has declared a minimum wage for first
class lathers of 3 t day; for second-
class It. and for third-class. $3.
At the Northumberland l Eng.) Coal
Conciliation Board recently a reduc
tion in wages of 1 l-t per cent was
agreed to, this be ag the first reduc
tion for three years..
The Sco-ch Iron Moulders have, by
ballot, decided to strike against the
proposed reduction in wages of Is per
week, if the masters seek to enforce
the reduction.
Under the revised constitution of the
International Carriage and Veh'de
Workers Cnkm death benefits will be
paid the members of that organization
in ttte future.
The new law of the International
Typographical Union, which provides
a pension for 'members of the organ za
Uott throughout the jurisdiction will
go Into effect August 1.
demand that the bookbinding for the
public libraries of New York be done
by union men and American citizens
was unanimously adopted.
Representatives of sixty labor or
ganizations have launched the Chicago
tin. Equity Exchange, which proposes
to distribute farm products from the
grower to the consumer.
Wages in the iron and steel trades
generally have now been reduced in
the north of England, in -the Midlands
and in South Wales. Blast furnace
men's wages have followed suit.
It is believed that the approaching
convention of the International Print,
ins Pressmen s and Assistants Union,
which will meet in Mobile, Ala. on
June 15. will be the largest ever held.
The example set by the trade union
ists of Denver. Colo, in establishing a
hospital at a cost of over J 150.000. win.
in all probability, be emulated by Their
brethern in Pittsburg. Pa.
Brickniakers in the Edmonton
(Eng.) district went out on strike re
cently against a reduction of 4d per
100a bricks. Most of the large brick
fields are therefore UUe in the district
A large number of telegraphers in
India are on strike, and there has been
a great delay in the transmission of
messages. The Indian Government is
opposed to the demands made upon
them.
Coal mine accident of 1941 in the
United States shown an increase of
about 50 per cent in the number, of
men killed as compared with 19S.
Counting the big disasters, the deaths
will be more than 3 POO.
The Finnish legislature has passed
the bakers bill which makes eight
hours a legal day's work in all bak
erics throughout Finland. The same
bill provides that night work in bak
eries shall be prohibited.
The Canadian Northern Railroad
men at Winnepeg. Man. have accepted
a slight reduction in wages, and the
fact is expected to have an important
bearing in the case of the Canadian up by a longer rest at noontime.
Pacific Railroad men. London. England, is witnessing the
Members of the International Broth-! novel sight of a strike of restaurant
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners are ; waitresses. The girls complain that
Mounters and Steel Range Workers'
International Union has decided to
hold a general election this year. The
convention will assemble in Chicago,
HI, the third week in July.
The Central Labor Council of Wash
ington. D. C, has given its unqualified
support to the movement for the pas
sage of a law that shall prohibit the
United States from contracting for any
articles manufactured by convicts.
Three times as many foreign labor
ers have left this country so far this
year than during the same period last
year and only one-third as many have
entered American ports during the
corresponding period of 1907.
The Cigarmakers Union will vote on
amendment to the general constitution
providing that a member of the in
ternational for twenty-five years may
draw upon any local union for $300.
the same to be deducted from his death
benefit.
Action taken by the board of con
trol of the Minnesota state prison, pro
viding that, if necessary, the prison
ers may be worked overtime in the
twine plant not to exceed three hours
a day has stirred up some of the
unions.
Not until the workingmen of Pitts
zurg. Pa, have contributed more mon
ey to the project will a labor temple be
obtained. At present only 933.000
worth of stock has been subscribed and
less than half of this amount has been
paid In
President Gonipers and the Execu
tive Council of the American Federa
tion of Labor have been requested to
issue a separate charter to the building
trades of Brooklyn. N. Y, so that they
might have a distinct central organiza
tion in the borough.
Austrian printers and metal workers
are nearly all working nine hours a
day. The textile and food workers
have still longer hours. The women
work, as a rule, even longer than the
i men, uui inis is supposed to oe niaue
i
e ration of labor and the solid backing
of union printers all over Minnesota
convention at Boston. Mass, next
August, that has ever been gathered
since the institution of the Interna
tional Typographical Union. Many
nwirwig that have heretofore failed of
representation are arranging to send
delegates.
An effort to standardize the wages of
engineers employed by the various
state departments and institutions of
Massachusetts is to be made by the
Boston Engineers Union, working in
Conjunction with the State branch of
the American Federation of Labor.
The political committee of the Min
nesota state federation of labor is
sending out an appeal for funds to the
unions. Present plans include a state
wide political movement, and the
union committee will try to perfect
an organization which will be a pow
er in state and local politics.
The labor press all over the country
is warning mechanics to stay away
from Washington. TX C, owing to the
conditions there resulting from the
strike and lockout. This is expected
to counteract the t fleet of advertise
ments being spread broadcast by the
Employers Association for additional
men to work there.
The American labor men are coming
to realize that they must use their in
fluence as voters to further the trade
union movement. They are taking
pattern from the English trade union
ists, and they may become n factor to
be recokoned with in the future. This
will be particularly true if the mea
sures before congress fan of passage-
voting by referendum on the proposi
tion to affiliate with the new Depart
ment of Building Trades of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
During the year ending September
14. 1947. a total of 9.431 employes in
factories and quarries in New York
state were reported injured by acci
dents. This is nearly 6,M) greater
than the previous year.
A recent motion that the C F. U,' By a referendum rote the Stove
they are paid only $1-70 a week, and
that they are forbidden to accept tips.
The strikers have decided to start a
co-operative restaurant of their own.
All indications point to the largest
A new bill is being drawn up pro
viding for a state printing office :n
Minnesota and win be presented to the
next legislature for the consideration
and passage. The proposed measure
will have the support of the state fed-
CONVENTIONS IN 1908.
Where and When Trades Union Gath
erings Will Be Held.
May , Detroit, Mich-. Interna.-,-
Tin Plate Workers Protective Associa
tion of America.
Slay . York. Pa, National Print
Cutters Association- of America.
June 1. St. Paul, Minn., Brother
hood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship
builders of America.
June i. Detroit. Mich-. International
Association of Steam and Hot Water
Fftters and Helpers of America.
June . Washington, D. C, Inter
national Union of Journeymen Horse
shoe rs
June, Mobile. Ala, International
Printing Pressmen's Union.
June 1. Columbus. Ohio, Gainmak-
ers National Union of the United
States of America.
June 1. St. Louis, Mo, international
Association of Marble Workers.
June 8, International Ceramic
Mosaic and Een cans tic Tile Layers
and Helpers" Union.
June 8, Cincinnati, Ohio, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Bookbinders.
June 8, International Brother
hood of Tip Printers.
June 8, Milwaukee, Wis, The Com
mercial Telegraphers Union of
April fi, Toronto, Canada, Interna
ttonal Association of Fur Workers of
the United States and Canada.
May 3, Brockton, Mass, Interna
tional Union of Cutting Die and Cutter
Makers.
May 5, Youngstown, Ohio, Amalga
America. July 4, Amalgamated Leather
Workers" Union of America.
July , Atlantic City, N. J. National
Brotherhood of Operative "Longshore
men's Association.
July 6, Buffalo, N. Y, International
Jewelry Workers Union.
July C Cincinnati. Ohio, Brush-
trakers International Umon.
July 7, Baltimore, Md, Glass Bottle
Blowers" Association of the United
States and Canada.
Jury 13, Toronto, Canada, Intenm
tional Piano and Organ Workers,
ion of America.'
July 13, Indianapolis, Ind, Litho
graphers International Protective As
sociation.
July 13, Minneapolis, Minn,, Theat
rical Stage Employes International
Alliance.
July 18, Holyoke, Mass, American
Wire Weavers Protective Association.
July 20. New York City, Interna
tional Steel and Copper Plate Printers
Union.
August 3, Buffalo. N. Y, National
Association of Heat, Frost, General In
sulators and Asbestos Workers
August 4 Detroit, Mich, Interna
tional Glove Workers Union of
America.
August 10, Detroit, Mien, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Stationary Fire
men. August S, Detroit, Mich, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters.
August 10, Boston. Mass, Interna
tlonal Typographical Union.
August 10, Boston, Mass, Interna
tional Stereo typers and Eteetroiyperg
Union.
August 11. Indianapolis, Ind, Shirt
Waist and Laundry Workers Interna
tional Union.
August 24. Milwaukee, Wis, United
Garment Workers of
September 1.
Table KnUe
Brotherhood of Cement
Grinders National Union.
September 2, Milwaukee, Wis,
American
Workers.
September 7. Denver, Cohv, later
national Association of
September 8, New York City, Inter
national ' Photo Engravers Union cf
North America.
September 19. Boston. Mass, Span
ners International Union.
September 14. Montreal. Caaala.
Journeymen Stonecutters? ABiwiiflori
of North America.
September 14, Philadelphia, Pa, In
ternational Union of Steam Sagfaeera.
September 14. Phfladerphia, Pa, In
ternational Brick. Tfle and Terra Gotta
Workers" Alliance.
September 15. Salt Lake City, UtaH.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters aaj
Joiners of America.
September 17, New York City, Pock
et Knife Blade Grinders and FrmUh
era National Union.
September 21, udianapoEa, Ind
United Association of Tbaamm. Gas
filters, Steamfitters and SteamStterx'
Helpers of United States and Caea if t
September 21. ImSananofis, Indw.
International AssodauoB of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers.
October 5, Washington, EL C, Bak
ery an j Confectionery Workers' In
ternational Union.
October 5. St. Louis. Ma, Iatersa-t-onal
Union of Wood. Wire and Metal
Lathers.
October 20. Canoes, N- Y, United
Textile Workers of America.
November 9. Denver. Cotat, Ameri
can Federation of Labor. 9
November 10, Bangor, Pa, Interca
tional Union of Slate Workers.
November 12. YmaZhaTea, Me, Lob
ster Fisberfmen 's International Protec
tive Associatim.
December 7, New Orleans. La, In
ternational Brotherhood of Mainten-
ance-of-Way Employes.
December 7, Brooklyn, NL Y, Na
tional Alliance of Bill Fosters
Rillers of America.
THE CIGARMAKERS.
Thomas Dermody of Ckk-ago. mf
rial organizer of the CSgarsnakW
International Union, has
signing three new cigar
Lansing to the anion aeale
t mploy none but anion men.
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