GENERAL MENTION.
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The Long Winter1
Nights
May be made bright and cheerful by illuminating
the home with either Gas or Electricity. And the
disposition of the housewife may be sweetened
by relieving her of the drudgery of filling "smelly"
kerosene lamps and cleaning smoky chimneys.
Nothing is so well calculated to make home happy
as bright lights and cheerful dispositions. We
will furnish the illumination-and the cheerful dis
positions will follow as a natural result.
If It's a Question of Cost
Let us prove to you -as we can- that it is
cheaper, more convenient and far better to illu
minate with gas or electricity than it is to illumin
ate with kerosene amps. Counting cost of
kerosene and chimneys, to say nothing of the
drudgery connected therewith it costs no more
to use gas or electricity. And as for the results
dollar for dollar you get immensely more and
better light-always ready, no cleaning, no break
ageby using our illuminants.
Equipping a Modern Kitchen
Mr. Mechanic, " you insist upon having the
: best and most up-to-date tools. Why deny your
good wife the same conveniences for her trade.
If you think hocsewifery is not a trade, just try
it. Equip the kitchen with labor saving devices
first a gas range, then electric irons, toasters,
etc Come in and let us show you a (few things.
Lincoln Gas and
Electric Light Go.
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WORKERS UNION
UNIONJ STAMP
Iiraetpry No.
Named Shoes are Often Made
in Non-union Factories.
DO NOT BUY
ANY SHOE
no matter what its name un-
Brief Bits of Labor News Deftly
Picked, Pilfered and Pruned. I
New York Confectionery Unions
levy 50 cents assessment on their
4,000 members to combat lockouts
of bakers.
Sixty switchmen were killed in the'
Chicago railroad yards in 1909, ac-
cording to the report of Coroner Peter .
Hoffman.
Wages to be paid to , journeymen
carpenters in Davenport, la., from
May 1, 1910, until May 1, 1911, will be
45 cents per hour.
The strike in the Oriole furniture
factory in Grand Rapids has beer,
settled and the 601 men have joined
the Carpenters' union.
Boston Lodge 204 of Machinists has
admitted more than 1,000 members in
the last four months. Over 200 ap
plications are now on hand.
W. B. Macfarlane, general organizer,
has stirred up the carpenters of
Grand Rapids. He has formed a union
of over 400, composed oZ furniture
workers.
Six hundred machinists, boiler
makers and blacksmiths employed at
the Monden shops in Lafayette, Ind.,
made a demand Tuesday for an in
crease in wages.
A voluntary increase of conductors
and motoraien's wages from 18 3-S to
20 cents an hour, effective March 16,
was announced by the Reading Trac
tion company.
Thirty orchardists of Oak Glen, Cal.,
have signed this pledge: "We agree
against the future employing of any
Hindus, Koreans or Japanese as a pro
tection for our homes and families."
Two hundred underwear workers on
strike for two weeks in the shop of
Ratowsky & Sons, New York city,
have been granted 10 per cent in
crease in wages and better working
conditions.
Members of the Honesdale, Pa.,
branch of the Shoemakers' Union will
incorporate a company for the manu
facture of miners' shoes, the product
to be marketed direct to the members
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica. Freight handlers employed in the
Chicago freight houses will present a
wage scale to the railroads calling for
an increase of $10 a month for men on
monthly salaries and from 2 to 3 cents
an hour for men paid on hourly basis.
The Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis
railroad has raised the wages of the
passenger conductors $12.50 per
month, the freight conductors $11 per
month, the passenger brakemen $6.50
per month and the freight brakemen
$7.50 per mcnth.
Trusts and combines, "unfaithful
representatives," and these responsi
ble for lax enforcement of the state
and' federal laws were grilled in reso
lutions adopted by a joint committee
of the Farmers' Grange and Will Coun
ty Trades and Labor Council, 'appoint
ed to investigate the reasons for the
present high cost of living in Joliet,
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"Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, etc.,
AT ONE-HALF PRICE
Chicago Wholesale
Company
Our Wholesale Price
25Bar Ont 10 lbs Bbl. 100
Best Urge Best Best bsbest
SOAP HAM RICE FLOUR SUGAR
7So $1.20 75c $2.75 $2.78
40-42 Michigan Ave.
CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS
Merchants Retail Price
2SBart 10 lb 10 lbs BbL 100
Best HAM Best Best lbs
SOAP for. RICE FL0VI SUGAR
$1.50 $3.00 $1.20 $8.75 $8.00
Freight Paid- Order Today
QFNfl Mfl 1W ftNPV " yon wisn u to we BniP ya ay amount of good to your city with the privi
jClil illl iTlUl iC I lege of examining every package before paying one cert, and if not found in every
way as represented and a better quality than you can buy elsuwhere return them and we will pay all charge.
1ft fi A VC ED PC TDI A I flEPED Take tho goods home, try them, and if at the enl of 80 days you
U U t I O riYCC 1 K1L. UrrCA do not find goods in every way as represented, write us and we
will make it right.
PDPICHT D A III when the full amount of cosh is sent with the order we wili py freight charges to any
lK CIVJ1I I I All! city east of the Rocky Mountains, if you live further writo us for term. One hbl. flour
or 100 lbs. sugar at the above price with an order amounting to $17.50 of other groceries which you cn order any
amount you wish. 50 lbs. of sugar or i bbl. flour with an order of $10.75. If you are not in a position to send ns
an order of any size have your neighbors or friends join you. Free Catalogue giving wholesale prices on everything.
What Ton nt In
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100 lbs. Best Eastern Gran
ulated Sugar $6.00
1 bbl. Best Gold Medal or
our own Flour 6.75
50 lbs Best Granulated Su
gar S.00
bbl. Best Flour, Gold
Medal or our own 3.00
10 lbs. Best Japan Rico... 1.20
10 lbs. Best Santa Clara
Prunes 1.20
5 lbs. Soda, Arm and Ham
mer Brand or our own.. .60
6 lbs Corn Starch, ' Best
Quality 50
10 pkgrB. English Cur
rants and Brfkst. Food 1.25
10 lbs. Barley, choica for
soups ' .CO
6 lbs. Tapioca or Sago,
Best Grade 50
10 lbs. California Peaches,
Best Evap.. 1.50
S lbs. Apricots, Choice,
Best Evap ' 1.50
8 large cans Tomatoes or
Sauerkraut, none better 1.20
8 lanre cans Choice Corn
or Peas 1.20
12 cans Baked Beans or
Mustard Sardines 1.20
2 lbs. Chocolate. Best
Quality, sweet or bitter. 1.00
2 lhs. Finest Shredded Co-
coanut 80
10 lbs. Chicago Coffee, best
quality, roasted 4.00
$1.73
2.7S
1.40
1.40
.75
.75
.25
.25 .
.75
.40
.SO
.98
.98
.75
.72
.75
.60
.35
2.70
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Kttylns Par V
10 pkea Rolled Oats and
Yeast Foam 60
10 lbs. Rio No. 1 Coffee.
roasted comp 2.50
5 lbs Chicago Coffee, best
quality, roasted 2.00
5 lbs Rio Coffee, roasted
comp 1.25
3 lbs. Finest G. P. or Ja
pan Tea 2.55
3 lbs. Finest English
TSrkfst, or Oolong BUc.
Tea 2.55
3 lbs. Choice G. P., Japan
or Black Tea. 1.50
6 lbs Baking Powder.
Price's or our own brand 2.60
3 lbs. Baking Powder,
Choice Chicago ,75
1 gal Finest Maple Flavor
Syrup 1.50
1 large pail Mackerel 1.50
1 large pail Whiteflsh or
Herring . 1.50
4 oz. Lemon or Vanilla
extract, strictly pure.... , .60
8' oz. Lemon or Vanilla
'Extract, strictly pure...' 1.20
13 bars Castile and Tar
Soap 1.60
15 bars Ivory Soap, large
size, and Coco Castile
Soap 1.20
25 bars best quality Laun- .
dry Soap 1.50
1 box Best Soda or Oys- .
ter Crackers 1.50
.25
1.50
1.40
.80
1.48
1.48
.98
1.80
.45
.98
.75
.75
.35
.65
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.75
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aiaPajlag Pay Da
1 box Glnerer Snan9 or Wa
fers 2.00
1 lb. pure ground Pepper .49
1 lb. strictly pure Cinna
mon, Mustard or Ginger .60
10 cans finest Columbia
River Salmon .....1.70
1 large Choice Ham 3.00
1 large piece Finest Bacon 3.25
10 spools Best Thread or
10 pkgs. Pins .50
6 pairs Men's Black Hose,
good quality 9t
8 pairs Ladies' Black Hose,
good qualify 1.68
12 Men's large White
Hdkfs., good quality l.M
12 fancy Ladies' Hdkfs 1.2
1 pr. Men's Chicago Dress
Shoes S.Oe
1 pr. Ladles' Fancy Dress
Shoes 2.6
1 pr. Men's Good Work
ing Shoes 2.00
1 pr. Men's All Wool
Trousers 3.00
pr. Men's Overalls, or
1.05
.19
.29
1.10
1.20
1.35
.30
.45
, .15
.85
.80
Lace
long
.75
98
Working Shirt
1 pr. Nottingham
Curtains. 2 vds.
by 30 in. wide 1.0
J2 towels, fine quality. .... 1.20
1 heavy Cotton Mop Head
or large Scrubbing Brush .25
1 large Shoe or fancy
Clothes Brush .35
1 package Rising Sun
Stove Polish or 1 box
Shoe Polish... .10
1.85
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..98
1.48
.37
.45
.60
.12
.15
.04
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Chicago Wholesale Co., 40-42 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.
DEPT. 131
less it bears a plain and read-
uuJt 1114 pi oooiua ur tana isuauji hjuauap.
All Shoes voithout the Union Stamp
are Altcays Non-Union!
Do not accept any excuse for the absence of the
UNION STAMP.
BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION
246 Sumner St., Boston, Mass:
John F. Tobin, Pres. Chas. L. Baine, Sec.-Treas.
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AUTOCRATIC COINCIDENCES.
Suggestive if not significant is the
fact that . the. day before the Berlin
police were clubbing German Social
ists for taking a peaceable afternoon
stroll in a public park by way of criti
cising the government without words,
the Philadelphia police were clubbing
American workingmen for marching
through the public streets to Inde
pendence Square to hold a mass meet
ing in criticism of the government
with words. The notion that there is
much difference between feudalistic
kaiserism in Germany and plutocratic
capitalism In the United States is
frazzling out; and it is such men as
Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia who
are doing most of the frazzling. The
Public.
Lyric Theat
Matinees VAed. and Sot. 2:30
NEXT WEEK
"THE HONEYMOON"
THE LYRIC STOCK COMPANY
Evening 8:30; 15c, 25c and 35c. Matinee 15c and 25c
The Sunday afternoon meetings of
the Lincoln Economic Educational
League continue to grow in interest
There is no question but what the
laboring class must get grounded in
a knowledge of economics. They must
learn to think. It is a case of "think
or surrender," and they are not going
to surrender. Next Sunday, March
20th, Mr. Wright will lecture on "The
Two Greatest Men of the Last Cen
tury." Prof. Franta and Miss Smith
will have charge of the musical pro
gram. Don't forget, Sunday, 3 p. m.,
March 20, at A. O. U. W. hall, 1007
O street. Admission free.
Subscribe Now, $ 1
STELZLE NOT COMING.
It has been the hope of the Y. M. C,
A. management to have Rev. Charles
Stelzle for one of the Sunday after
noon meetings at the Oliver this sea
son, but word was received last Tues
day that Mr. Stelzle could not come
thij year. This is a bitter disappoint
ment to a large number of Lincoln
unionists who are familiar with his
work.
DOPING THE BOILERS.
Sensational ..Testimony Given Before
Congressional Committee.
Washington, D. C. March 8. Fight
ing not only for the protection of their
own lives, but for the safety of the
passengers as well, the Brotherhood
of Locomotive .Engineers has produced
evidence, in support of Senator Bur
kett's bill for the government inspec
tion of locomotive boilers, that reads
like the unearthing of a great na
tional scandal.
Senator Burkett's questioning of H.
S. Jeffery, boiler expert, brought forth
these startling facts.
"You spoke a moment ago of the
cracks occurring, 'broken stay bolts,
and steam escaping," demanded the
senator, "do you know of artificial
means being used to stop leaking
water by introducing something else
into the boiler?"
The boiler expert glanced covertly
at the row of superintendents, mana
gers and legal advisors in the pay of
the railroads which crowded one side
of the committee room, and, as he an
swered, their faces, in turn, became
tense and white.
"Yes. When the stay bolts are
leaking it is nothing unusual to put
half a barrel of. bran or fine sawdust
in the boiler, or if that is not ava'l
able, to go to a stable and get horse
manure, charging the boiler with that,
also with sal ammoniac. That is what
we call the 'dope cure.' Many of our
boilers, or practically all of them 'on
hard runs, get the 'dope cure.' , The
leaks are taken up temporarily, but as
soon as the boiler is washed out the
dope is washed out and then it is a
case of '-doping up' again."
Owen Ruefly, a ' boiler maker of
twenty years' standing, followed Jef
frey as a witness and explained how
the introduction of sal ammonica intc
the boiler made a rust that stopped
the leaks, a rust that was fatal to the
strength of the boiler.
Fearful of the effect of the evidence
being offered by their employes, the
ra lroad representatives brought for
ward Theo. H. Curtis, superintendent
of machinery, on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, who, after giving
it as his opinion that the failure of
the men to maintain a proper supply
of water in the boiler was the cause
of most explosions, wound up with
this pointed statement:
' "This bill puts into the hands of
organized labor the power to run our
railroads. Give them the control of
our locomotives and they will control
our railroads."
Smiles of assent from the railroad
lobby greeted this sally on the part
of the superintendent, but Senator
Cummins, chairman. of the committee,
objected, stating curtly, "These in
spectors will he appointed by the de
partment of commerce and labor, and
not by organized labor."1
The gentlemen of the railroads then
became solicitious for the welfare of
Uncle Sam's treasury. "Government
inspection ...will cost you over a mil
lion dollars a yer," .Asserted A. W.
Hendricks of the Santa Fe lines. Ac
cording to Hendricks everything is
O. K. with the boilers, and the govern
ment will be wasting its money fool
ishly if it passes this bill.
He was brazen enough to tell the
committee that explosions seldom
cccur. on the Santa Fe, much to the
amusement of the labor men present
who were familiar with that railroad's
record to the contrary.
Jeffeiy's testimony hurt. The rail
road lobby knew this and it took no
chalices. Everybody spoke. The
Pennsylvania railroad's representative
argued that 300 inspectors provided in
the bill were not enough and what's
more you can't get even 300 com
petent inspectors. They all like to
work for the railroads and certainly
wouldn't work for the government,
even for more money, was his modest
opinion.
The bill is dangerous and revolu
tionary according to the mouthpiece
of the Missouri Pacific and other
Western lines.
Four others also spoke for the
"persecuted", railroads. They, like
the rest, argued along this line: "We
are running the railroads as we think
best and it is none of the govern-,
ment's business."
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Every sack warranted. We want the trade of
Union men and women, and we aim to deserve it.
if your grocer does not handle Liberty Flour, 'phone
us and we will attend to it. Ask your neighbor
how she likes Liberty Flour. We rely on the
recommendation of those who use it
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