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We wish to announce in this issue of the Wageworker that for the month we have : been making extensive alterations in our store.
These changes we believe will make our store the Ideal House-furnishing Establishment for our customers to come to trade. Our Carpet
Rug and Drapery departments will be located on the 3d floor west, where there is more room than was formerly devoted to that depart
ment, besides the natural light is ideal for the selecting of colors. This department can be reached by an electric elevator just to the
left of the O street entrance. Besides the change in this department, you will find upon visiting our store several other changes, which
were made for the special purpose of making it more convenient for the public to come to our store and buy everything for the home.
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Sanitary Couches $3.75
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Gasoline Stoves $2.75, up
Detroit Vapor Stoves
Folding Go-carts $1.45 up
DINING CHAIRS
Like cut $1.25
We have a large assort
ment of dining chairs
from 75c up.
La
Princes Dressers $10, up
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Sewing Rockers $1.75
Other rockers with arms
from 1.50 up.
Everything for the Home.
1112-1114 O Street
Iron
THIS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Charles Glidden, on of the organ
izers ot the United Mine Workers, re
cently came across a miner, who, in
the 22 years that he has worked for
a company at Haziiton, Pa., has re
ceived a pay envelope but twice. Iui
that time he has been in debt to the
company every month except the two
instances mentioned. Talk about
slavery and peonage, you can find a!l
degrees of servitude in Pennsylvania.
Reading Advocate.
GOOD FOR THE PAINTERS.
After a struggle for twenty years
for union conditions in the painting
department of the Hudson River
Tranportation company, the Brother-1
hood of Painters, with the assistance j
of the Marine Trades Council of the
port of New York, has at last been
successful. This gives work to 65
union men.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Employes of the coating mills
Kalamazoo have organized.
Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, etc.,
AT ONE-HALF PRICE
Chicago Wholesale
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Our Wholesale Price
23Bar On 10 lbs Bbl. 100
Best Large Bast Bast lbs best
SOAP HAM RICE FLOUR SUGAR
75c $1.20 750 $2.78 $2.7S
-ompany
40-42 Michiwi Ave.
CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS
Merchants Retail Price
26Bars 10 lb 10 lbs Bbl. 100
Best HAM Best Bast lbs
SOAP far RICE FLOUI SUGAR
$1.50 $3.00 $1.20 $8.75 $8.00
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Freight Paid Order Today
CEKIfa W A M fllME V M yu wlsn U8 w wil1 8niP vou anv "mount of good to your city with the, privi
3Elll HU iflvllC I lege of examining every package bofore paying one cent, and if not found in every
way aa represented and a better quality than you can buy elsuwhere return them and we will pay all charge.
1A fi A VC CDCC Till A I fiEEGD Take the goods home, try them, and if at the end of 80 days you
JU UAI J rKEX 1KIAL UrrElV do not And goods in every way as represented, write us and we
will make It right
EDEIflHT D A lis When the full amount of cash is sent with the order we will) pay-freight charges to any
rKEIvJIl I r All! city east of the Rocky Mountains, if you live further writo us for terms. One bbl. flour
or 100 lbs. sugar at the above prioe with an order amounting to $17.50 of other groceries which you can order any
amount you wish. BO lbs. of sugar or i bbl. flour with an order of $10.75. If you are not in a position to send us
an order of any size have your neighbors or friends join yon. Free Catalogue giving wholesale prices on everything.
Whit Ton Wtiit Yoi
araPaylnl Pay U
100 lbs. Beat Eastern Gran
ulated Sugar $6.00 J2.75
1 bbl. Beat Oold Medal or
our own Flour 6.75 1.75
E0 lbs Best Granulated Su
gar S.00 t.48
H bbl. Best Flour, Oold
Medal or our own S.00 1.40
10 lbs. Best Japan Rice... 1.20 .76
10 lbs. Best Santa Clara
Prunes 1.20 .75
5 lbs. Soda, Arm and Ham
mer Brand or our own.. .50 .25
5 lbs Corn Starch, Boat
Quality 50 .25
10 pkfs. English Cur
rants and BrfksL Food 1.25 .75
10 lbs. Barley, choice for
soups 60 .40
( lbs. Tapioca or Sago,
Best Orads 50 .30
10 lbs. . California Peaches,
Best Evap 1.50 .
lbs. Apricots, Choice,
Beat Evap 1.50 .91
large cans Tomatoes or
Sauerkraut, none better 1.20 .75
t large- cans Choice Corn
or Peas 1.20 .72
It cans Baked Beans or
Mustard Sardines 1.20 .75
I lbs. Chocolate, Best
Quality, sweet or bitter. 1.00 .60
t lbs. Finest Shredded Co-
soanut N .35
10 lbs. Chicago Coffee, best '
quality, roasted 4.00 2.70
Wilt Yau Whit Toy
a.t?ila( fij U
10 pkirs Rolled Outs and
Toast Foam 50 .25
10 lbs. Rio No. 1 Coffee,
roasted comp 2.50 1.50
5 lbs Chicago Coffee, best
quality, roasted 2.00 1.40
6 lbs Rio Coffee, roasted
comp 1.25 .80
S lbs. Finest G. P. or Ja
pan Tea 2.55 1.48
3 lbs. Finest English
Brkfst, or Oolong Bik.
Tea 2. Do 1.48
3 lbs. Choice O. P., Japan
or Black Tea 1.50 .98
5 lbs Baking Powder,
Price's or our own brand 2.60 1.80
3 lbs. Baking Powder,
Choice Chicago 75 .45
1 gal Finest Maple Flavor
Syrup 1.50 .98
1 large pail Mackerel 1.50 .75
1 large pall Whiteflsh or
Herring 1.60 .75
4 os. Lemon or Vanilla
extract, Btrictly pure 60 .36
8 os. Lemon or Vanilla
Extract, strictly pure... 1.20 .65
15 bars Castile and Tar
Soap 1.5 .98
15 bars Ivory Soap, large
size, and Coco Castile
Soap 1.20 .75
25 bars best quality Laun
dry Soap 1.50 .75
1 box Best Soda or Oys
ter Crackers 1.50 .98
Whit Tn What Tu
srtririif hr Ut
1 box Ginger Snaps or Wa
fers t.OO 1.05
1 lb. pure ground Pepper .40 .19
1 lb. strictly pure Cinna
mon, Mustard or Ginger .60 .29
10 cans finest Columbia
River Salmon 1.70 1.10
1 large Choice Ham ... 3.00 1.20
1 large piece Finest Bacon 3.25 1.35
10 spools Best Thread or
10 pkgs. Pins 50 .80
6 pairs Men's Black Hose,
good quality 90 .43
S pairs Ladies' Black Hose,
good qualify 1.60 .75
12 Men's large White
Hdkfs., good quality 1.20 .65
12 fancv Ladies' Hdkfs 1.20 .60
1 pr. Men's Chicago Dress
Shoes 8.00 1.85
1 pr. Ladies' Fancy Dress
Shoes 2-50 1.60
1 pr. Men's Good Work
ing. Shoes 2.00 .98
1 pr. Men's All ' Wool
Trousers 3.00 1.48
1 pr. Men's Overalls, or
Working Shirt 76 .37
1 pr. Nottingham Laos
Curtains, 214 yds. long
by 30 In. wide..; 1.06 .45
12 towels, fine quality 1.2 .60
1 heavy Cotton Mop Head
or large Scrubbing Brush .25 .12
1 large Shoe or fancy
Clothes Brush 85 .15
1 package Rising Sun
Stove Polish or 1 box
Shoe Polish 10 .04
and turning them over to other officers
elected at the Springfield convention.
Fifth. Assure the committee that we
will continue to co-operate with them
in harmony with, their duties and se
cure unification.
"Messrs. McNulty and Noonan re
fused to arbitrate and in a formal let
ter addressed to Messrs. Frey, Duffy
and Urick, gave notice of withdrawal
and their decision to continue litiga
tion. They admitted that they were
parties to the Denver agreement, and
the Toronto agreement, and set them
selves up above the arbitrators and
judges as to what -Bright be regarded
as the violations, of such.. It was evi
dent from their actions,' since the de-1
cision of the Committee, made on Feb
ruary 10th requiring a Special Conven
tion to be held, that they would not
meet the Brotherhood in Convention,
and it is shown that immediately up
on the decision being made that they
should, they'instructed their attorneys
to prepare to dissolve the Brotherhood
through court process.
"They utterly refused to come into
convention or provide the arbitrators
with the necessary motion made by
five (5) unions before March 31st, that
initiate a vote on the question as pro
vided in our first plan presented to
March 10th. Before noon March 11th,
they bolted from the arbitration and
the majority of the committee, Messrs.
Frey and Urick, will report to the ex
ecutive council of the American Fed
eration of Labor at Washington at
their meeting on March 27th.
We hope to avoid the expenses of
litigation and allow the brotherhood
to determine who was responsible for
the discord and treachery. We fully
recognize and respect the special codit
mittee and their decisions, and. we
went the limit to assist them in their
duties. It now devolves upon the ex
ecutive council to respect us.
"We will continue to bravely insist
that those who claim title as officers
or advisors in this , brotherhood shall
make answer to the brotherhood; and
we shall not spare one guilty or a
cowardly act regardless of his claims
to dignity or position. The entire
plans and correspondence will be for
mally placed before all local unions
and members as soon as convenient,
and through a study of them it can .
be readily determined who desires
harmony and who practices disrup
tion. Fraternally submitted.
"J. W. MURPHY,
"General Secretary."
The local situation shows some im
provement. The Traction company
has made some concessions, giving a
raise of 25 cents a day in wages and
promising another increase in the
near future. The strike against the
Lincoln Gas and Electric Light com-
Danv is still unsettled, but there is
deciding there was nothing to arbi- reason to believe that the opposing
trate, and the withdrawal of their rep- parties are getting a little nearer to-
resentative from the special commit- Setner- Manager Adams, who refused
tee. Concurrently following thia tb negotiate at all before the strike
tion, the second class mailing privilege was alled' has received a committee
was restored to the Electrical Worker trom tne lrmer employes eeve.ti
after months of negotiations since that times. and propositions and counter
privilege had been lost through those propositions have been made, but aa
who have now withdrawn from neeo- vet without avail, ir tne company
tiations that would maintain their management has made any efforts to
rights in this organization. This is replace the strikers the efforts have'
the advantage so far that we have to Deen futlle- As yet only me Pressure
report as a result of the unwarranted of argument and persuasion has been
nntinn v.naa .v, i,j ttj brought to bear, and It is the ex-
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rights to represent this brotherhood Pressed hope of the Electrical wort
and run awav rather than mmt the ers that this Is all that will be neces
We have a line of refrige
rators from .50 up. Call
and see the two best makes
on the market. The Mc
Cray and the Viking.
Iron Bed like cut $8.50
Green and white enameled
Beds from. $2.95 up 1
Chicago Wholesale Co., 40-42 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.
DEPT. 131
W. L. MAYER
Electrical Worker
Tha McNulty faction, after promis
ing to arbitrate and abide by the de
cision or the committee selected in ac
cordance with a resolution adopted at
Toronto, has refused to continue nego
tiations, withdrawn its member from
the board, and announced that it is
going to take the whole matter into
the courts. That's the action of the
faction headed by McNulty, the man
who etood up on the floor of the To
ronto convention and charged the Reid
faction with duplicity, double-dealing,
dishonesty and every other crime in
the union catalogue. That is the ac
tion of the faction .that was endorsed
by the executive council of the A. F.
of L. and upheld by an unfair ruling
of Jim Duncan. State Federations and
central bodies that had taken the
measure of the McNulty-Collins outfit
found themselves without charters,
which were lifted "automatically" and
autocratically. What will the execu
tive council of the A. F. of L. do now?
And where does Jim Duncan get off at.
The story of the McNulty-Collins-Noonan
.failure to live up to the sol
emn pledges given at Toronto is told
in the following letter sent out by
Secretary Murphy of the now regular
faction that is "regular" unless the
executive council turns a flip-flop:
"Springfield, 111., March 14, 1910.
To the Members of the Intel-national
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Greeting:
"Our fourth meeting with the arbi
trators in Cleveland, beginning March
10th,. abruptly ended by the other side
brotherhood in convention.
'We have previously outlined to
our membership plans whereby the
claims of those contesting might be
considered, and all officers claiming
title could secure a decision from the
brotherhood either by the referendum, inS last Sunday afternoon to discuss
submission of resignations to it, or a matters of importance and to tighten
convention; and the persons that in- "P the lines In this jurisdiction. The
meetinz was largely anenaeu
sary. it is assertea Dy tne uuiou.
committee that Manager Adams has
given other employes an increase
after refusing to grant the increase
asked for by the Electrical Workers.
The local union held a special meet-
sisted that the committee should have
absolute authority while pleading be
fore the Toronto convention of the
American Federation of Labor have
run away. As required by the arbi
tfation committee's decision on Feb
ruary 23d, we presented a legal plan
which would eliminate all litigation
and
very enthusiastic.
Hints for Cleaning.
Clean silver toilet articles with a
paste of alcohol and. whiting. It will
not scratch the surface of plain sil
ver. A soft brush should be used to
and bring us together in convention Uet e paste into crevices. Wipe with
no later than July I5th, 1910, and it nr elimm, narta wUh .
was refused by our opponents, who in- goft brlgtle brugn A 6oUltlon of salt3
sisted that a convention was not nec
essary in the face of the fact that on
February 10th the committee unani
mously decided that an early conven
tion must be held. Thereupon we pre
sented another plan on March llth,
which would overcome all Intelligent
objections made by the opposition,
and offer relief in the only manner
that the circumstances would permit
of, considering the fact that the banks
had sued along with other complain
ants in the Gieb suit.
"We had gone to extremes with
every one interested in this second
plan, which proposed:
"First. Dissolving injunctions. Sec
ond. Dismissing Gleb suit providing
McNulty's cross-petition be withdrawn.
Third. Transferring and assigning
rights of title to Cleveland deposits
to arbitration committee, that they
would be enabled to turn them over,
providing the other side would do the
same. Fourth. File such action in
court in conjunction with attorneys
from the other side which would se
cure a proper court order to permit I
of the committee holding these funds
of tartar will clean white bristle nice
ly, and if well rinsed the brushes will
look new. "
".When Ironing.
Try using a brick instead of an iron
stand. It is a good non-conductor, and
holds the heat longer than an open
stand.
If using a gas stove remember to
wipe the irons after they have been
heated a few seconds. If the moist
ure is left on them it rusts them.'
The back of old kid gloves make a
good lining for Iron holders. They
protect the hands while keeping tha
holder less clumsy than usual. - -
To Darn Matting.
If matting is worn in the center it
may be darned to look as good as new
by threading a darning needle with
raffia and darning It as you would a
stocking. If the worn part is on the
edge buttonhole stitch the last row as
a border and it will not fray. If
raffia is not fine enough split It to suit.
Raffia comes in about' three colors
natural, jed and blue. Natural col
ored raffia is about the same color am
matting and is cheap. ;