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PLASTERERS ARE
PROSPEROUS
Pittsburg, Pi
ti v«
at Hl '
low*,
Park,
u run
Aug. 7. The Opera
International Awioriu-
ti'il charters to new local*
ivillc, O. Johnston, I'd., Alblu,
\ ork, I'm., IUr.elton, Ph., Ocean
i a! , I:>ir<-kn. < 'ul., Ilngemlown,
mill Detroit, Midi.
New wale* mill lner««and wage* were
m r11r<**i hi the following ptofen: *'hi-
CHKI,, III . increase Dill |HT day, llntri.lt,
Mii'li., per iliiv minimum, Hbiiron, Ph.,
$4.r 0 inlnlmiiin, Lowell, miihh., 41 hour
wick, 1.10 |.it iluv minimum, Colum
bus, ()., nil dispute- settled and all
member* bark to work. Ottawa, Can
nilii, Br |.iT hour InfitniM obtalni'il
Mor Iiiw, Canada, flOc |>or bour mini
mum aecured. i'lin in pa ign ami Urbmia,
111., 70e |.i>r hnur iltwimniltld. Iliimil
ton, <>., iM.r.o per ilny «ecur<«il. Allen
town, I'll., aoeured lin renae of 50e per
day. Cumberland, Mil., wecured nil in-
croitlt of Mr |>i>r day, another lncreii e
of Dflc become* effective September 10.
At Chlougo, III., Winnipeg uml lie
gllia, Conn.Ill, 7He per hour in demanded,
fide per hour minimum aecurcd nt Wind
nnr, (int., f 0e per ilny Inereaie demand-
ed at W ukee«an, III. UOe per bour and
Saturday half holiday ileinanded nt
Port Arthur and H'ort William, Canada.
The lowest wages paid to Plasterer*
U ut Cincinnati, <>., the rate there be
lug $.1.00 for a uiiie hour day nod at
Heading, Pa., the rate is *8.80 for an
eight hour day.
The highest rates are in California
mid the Inter mountain states where the
m in I m ii in wnge In $7 per day or 87,yc
por hour, Willi the eight bour day nnd
u week of 44 bourn with Saturday half
holiday the year round.
The number of member" in good
■tending nt last reporl in the Operative
Association wan 10,1114.
GRANITE CUTTERS VICTORY
Detroit, Mleh., Aug. 10. After a eon-
teat of eight week" by the Petrolt
branch of the Granite Cuttera' Inter-
nntionnl Association a settlement hna
been renehed by whleh a new agree
■neill baa been mnde increasing wages
from n $3,211 minimum for an eight
bour day to n minimum of M.50 for the
llrid venr nnd ii if:t <10 minimum for the'
following three years lo round out u
four vear agreement, The Detroit tlrnn
ite ('iittera also secured a Saturday half
holiday aa well aa aubatantlal nnd im-
proved change! In annitntlon and work-
shop conditions. The employers made
some efforts to secure non union men
but those thev obtained who possessed
mechanical skill joined the union when
they found there was a suspension on.
and those who were not skilled were of
course, no use to the employers. I he
Granite Cutting ICmploi era in Detroit
nnd vivinit.v have now a much higher
respect for their employees nnd for un-
ion men than ever before.
CHIPS PROM THE CARPENTERS
Indianapolis. Ind., Vug. * Tlie car
I enters nt Nowata have increased wag
<s from I.V to 50c per hour without
strike. The Roof and Bridge Carpen
ters of Boston, Mass., have increased
wages from S.28 to *3.70 per day, 110
strike. At Mondville, Pa., the eiglit
hour dav was gained at the old mini*
mum rate of $:t per day. At Muncie,
Ind., 8e per hour increase was obtained
without strike At Salem, III., wages
were increased Be per hour, without
strike At Rutland, Vt„ the eight hour
workday has been established after n
short strike. At Michigan City. Ind .
wages were increased Be per hour and
the eight hour working day established
In place of nine hours per day,—no
strike. At Mason City. Iowa, wages
were Increased from Sfic to 4iV per
hour.
OUTCOME OF GERMAN STRIKES
snobbishness the cubse or
labor
My the Rev. Charles SteUle
In a little Minnesota railroad town
re three women's clubs one composed
of the wives of the engineers, another
consisting of the wives of the firemen
while the third is made up of th- wive4-
of the brakeineu. It is absolutely I®
possible for the wives of the firemen
lo join the club composed of the wives
of the engineers, aud as for the wive1-
of the brakeineu—they aimpli aren I
in it. And all their husbands belong to
the Brotherhood!
In the average machine shop then
are at least half a dozen different
grades of society among the employes
The draftsmen- who regard th. nisehi-
us professional men feel that they art
just u bit above the patternmakers
who wear aprons instead of coats at
they work. The patternmakers con
sider themselves h wholo lot better
than the machinists because they weur
white shirts in the shop instead of over
alls, and because they earn about half
n dollar a day more. But the muchin
ists have a notion that they are bettei
than the moulders because the moulder's
job is dirtier nnd in some ways ap-
pears less 41 scientific." The moulders
look down on the tinsmiths, and the
whole bunch despise the common labor
cr. They decline tp eat their lunches
and drink their beer in the same coi-
ner with liim, aud when he goes out on
a job willi the mechanics he is treated
like a pack-horse and isn't considered
worth talking to.
The average clerk in a department
store regards himself ns superior to the
arlisnu and laborer, lie doesn't want
to be known us n " workingman
not he. He imagines that he is in the
same grade of society as the owner ot
the store, lie tries hard to live the
pari, even though be sleeps iu a dinky
hall bed room nnd dines on a chocolate
eclair and a glass of milk. He wears
better clothes than the mechanic and
lie tries to be counted ns a member of
swell socielv that is, it is "swell" in
the sense that it apes the doing of the
rich.
Talk about the "aristocracy of la-
bor "f There's a sense in which la hot
has a rigTTt lo be proud, because it. is
producing something thai's worth while
instead of grafting on the rest of the
world. But this is the only reason that
it has for eounting itself of better stufl
than the parasite who lives on the labor
of others. Any sort of arlstocrncy that
causes one worklngmnn to look down
upon nnother workingmnn because h
happens to weur u different kind ot
working-clothes, or becnusc he cam
lew cents n day less, or because he bus
n job which compels him lo do some
things most of us don't like to do
such aristocracy is n curse to labor and
the workers should be heartily ashamed
of it.
The workers may be assured that
there will never be real progress for
their class until they get together and
determine that, they will advance to
got her. And the sooner they learn that
thev must depend upon no outside in
Alienee but absolutely upon themselves,
the more rapid will be their progress.
But labor will never advance, so long
ns a cheap snobbishness dominates
among the various groups that eonsti
tuto the working people.
Max Haves of Cleveland is some wit.
Th'. from the Cleveland Citiien: "The
1 Citizen' has received from uuquestion
able authority, the information that n
new secret oath-bound organisation is
to be launched during the Cleveland
convention. It is a three degree nffair
and will be known as Ihe I'uregenernt
ed Order of Cave Men. The first de-
cree will be called the Order of the
Turkey, the second Ihe Order of the
Turtle, and the third is to be the Cave
Men proper, the supreme body We are
told that all the written work of the
order has been prepared clandestinely
that elaborate paraphernalia was manu-
factured surreptitiously and that tin
AND
LAND
A practical illustration Hhowmg bow
monopoly of natural rmmrew in the
fundomental eauHe of labor trouble*.
"At Brazil, In.I., a few year* ago
there wan a gn-at Mtrikr in the Block
Coalfield. Along flu* creek* in that ter
ritor.v the coal m.-iiiiih crop out, and
formerly farmer* and other* who cared j
to do ho went lo these outcropping
and helped thennelvr* Dnring the
strike in «|u< t ion :i great scarcity of
(•ml troubled the local market. The
mine* were abut down, and the ordinnn
supply tliUH failed. Dm day a couple
of in inert bethought theinnelvea of the
outcropping along the creek.
Thev got a wagon and team, drove
out a few in ilea from town, dug a
pie of ton* of coal and hauled it into
liraxiI. They hadn't the leant trouble
ispONing of it at the market rate
and thev hurried away for more. They
found it wm no trick at all to make
live or Mix dollar* a day each clear, and
a* they themselves could not meet the
lemand for coal other miners likewim
procured team* and began mining coal
on their own account with equal profit.
In a few daya the coal oporator*
took alarm They diweovered that the
striker* were becoming more and more
independent, that fewer and fewer
vinced symptoms of weakening, and
that the original acheme of starvation
waa bound to fail unle** the miner*
could be denied acco** to the mining op-
portunities which they had been work
ing.
"It happened that the coal opera-
tor* did not own the land to which the
*triker* had gone. It belonged to n
woman living in Indianapolis, nnd to
her the coal operators hastened.
Madam,' they said, 'the strikers
at Brazil are taking out your coal.'
4 4 4 Are theyf she said. 'Well, the
farmers have been coming for thirty
miles arouud for years and helping
themselves. There's plenty of it, and
1 don't see that there is occasion for
worry.'
44 'Hut, Madam,' the operators pro-
tested, 'if they are not stopped from
taking out your coal they will refuse
to make terms with us and go back to
work.''
4 4 4 I don't see that this concerns
me.'
4 4 4 But it concerns us. Our property
is at stake. The coal industry is para-
lyzed. I'nless those miners are denied
access to that coal we can reopen our
mines only by paying them their own
price for digging coal for they are
now making five or six dollars a day.'
4 4 4 Well, I repeat, this does not con-
cern me. Let the miners dig ns much
Washington, Aug.
hand disclose* that
i . Recent data at
2,^60 strikes and
4 4 Aud the operator* departed in
wrath and still greater alarm. They
ni(W that t-omething mu*t be done. If
the woman herself wouldn't stop the
iners from digging coal the end must
3 accomplished another way.
4 4 4 Why don't you buy her out?"
iked the lawyer.
44 This was a happy thought, and ut
ice the lawyer was instructed to open
uegot iatiou*.
I don't care to hcII,' *he said.
Itut we are bound to buy,' urged
the lawyer. 4 4 What is your pricef
44Hhe named a figure which she
Iccmcd prohibitive. And the lawyer
mapped at it like u trout at a fly. Hi*
principals gasped when he told them
the result of his mission.
But that price is exorbitant,'
they protested. 4 It is five times what
is worth. We can't stand it.'
4 4 You can stand it better to pay
that figure for her land than you can
to pay the miners their figure for dig
ging coal, can't vouf inquired the
lawyer, with a bland smile.
"They saw the point.
" 'All right. Close the deal.1 And
the deal, after a good long hesitation on
the woman's part, was closed.
"The striking miners knew nothing
of all this. They were still making
five or six dollars a day. The good
news was spreading to other strikers in
the Block Coalfield, and they likewise
began to go out along the creeks and
to work the outcroppings. The news-
papers were saying that the operators
were beaten—that the strikers had
practically wou—that if the mines were
reopened it would be under a wage
scale better than ever before.
".lust them the Indianapolis lawyer
turned up in Brazil with the deed of the
land.
" 'You men will have to quit dig-
ging coal hero,' he said to the strikers.
" 'Why*' they nsked.
" 4 Because I represent the parties
who own the land, aud they have au-
thorized me to stop nil trespassing.
You will have to go off our land.'
4 4 4 But this has always been free to
anyone who wanted to dig.'
4 4 4 Yes; it has always been free. But
it isn't to be free any more. If you
don"t get out we'll have to call on
the sheriff to put you out.'
4 4 Of course they got out. They were
face to face with starvation again.
Free opportunity was no longer avail-
able. They had to accept the terms of
the operators or see their wives and
little ones suffer. Within a fortnight
the men gave up, and the mines were
reopened. The operators, by closing
' tri-
the working gibl problem
A few days ago there appeared in the
Kansas City Pont a communication pur-
porting to come from a working girl
a girl who works in a printing office
and feed* a printing press for $6 a
week. She complains bitterly and
justly so—that her wage is so small, es-
pecially when a man working by the
DREDGEMEN GET
EIGHT HOUR LAW
coal as thev please. They have as! opportunities, had won a signal
much right to that coal at least .as I.']umph."
THE POWER OF A SMALL ACT
By the Hev. Charles Stelie.
Sometimes trades union matters of
only local importance in the first in-
stance, have taken on a national aspect
because of the development and ex-
ploitation by the press of the country,
of what were primarily trivial incidents
in connection with the real question at
stake. This has not tended to give peo-
ple a true impression of trades union-
ism. All reformers make mistakes; as
a class they are not more infallible than
other people. And it is usually their
mistakes that are at first given the most
prominence.
.lust so is it with organizations exist-
ing for the benefit and welfare of the
many. They will always be judged in
certain quarters not so much by the
permanent good they accomplish, but
by the selfishly aggressive acts of a
few of their members. Acts, like peo-
ple, are frequently judged by appear
ances. Each man must interpret the
membership has been picked sub rosa. | #f another 1(9 thev appear to him.
The promoters are tip toeing about and ^ hij judgm0I!t js according to his
whispering into each other s ears that .,OTCOI.8 0f perception aud his own
the I'nregenerated Oave Men will trans h broa(lth 0f character. A
mogrify and supplant the | uttle niinded man will, of course, be
and Hitter Rootera and Purity Ua>.u,r. ; ^ ^ to a small, contemptible
and Progressives and probably aaeimu 1^.^ (o an (lot with whl(.h hap
lookouts took place in Herman* in lt>U. ,Ml> tho wkol, I. T. V. and spend our j "l^not t(j ^ in svlnpathv either for
2K.S0# employees were involved in 10 mom.y „d run our affairs according rM,0|ls or „n of preju-
640 establishments Dissatisfaction ^ their own sweet will. The member ^ ^ ril ss
with wages caused liMU strike* for WJ. t^roMjjhout the jurisdiction afcouM j1 u* K ' '
6S0 workmen. 75? strikes for ^HV|% a eHre and make minute inspec Irnu M ^
workers were for shorter hours It is ^ delegates and visitors upon MHU-N * *
convention, for they ma> come
with hair on."
reported that 12 per cent of the strik return home from the
or* were fully successful. 62^ per cent
partially successful and per cent
unsuccessful. 9.S71 local unions, em
bracing 2.168,332 members, are atTili
ated with the German Federation of 1-a
bor. During lv*H only 510 local branch
material reasons or on account ot preju
of the underlying
rning it. But there are
fair-minded inen who
fine character because of
in his line of business respects his
knowledge nnd ability. Yet I have
never heard one word spoken of him in
the business world. In his home he is
the most uuselfish of men; a Christian
father in the truest sense of the term.
He does a great denl of good, too, in a
quiet and unostentatious way. But
the minute he enters his office, he be-
comes—to all appearances— a hard
cold, calculating financier, to whom
human beings are only interesting in
direct ratio in their business value.
And in this character he does a great
deal of harm, in n negative way.
It is a curious fact that most of us
would show more charity, more un-
selfishness and more love for our fel-
low beings. if we weren't ashamed to.
It is the fear of being thought "senti-
mental" and "goody-good" that makes
us paint ourselves blacker than we are.
Very few of us have the courage of
our convictions. We always wait for
the other fellow to take the lead. And
frequently he leads the wrong way. Yet
he gathers in his followers—many
against their better judgment—simply
through the force of will power, which
is the hypnotic force that rules weak
characters. This is one of the diffi
cult problems that organized labor has
constantly to meet. People are gradu
ally beginning to learn something about
its aims and the actual good it has
done, yet as long as individuals are
side of her and doing identically the
same kind of work, only not so com
petently and rapidly, receives more
than twice the amount she does. Then
the writer goes on to say that trades
unions aro organized for the protection
of men, but the poor girls are loft to
look out for themselves.
The fact that this girl is feeding
a press for $0 a week goes to show
in the first place that she is working in
a non union printing house, therefore is
directly working against her own inter
ts nnd the principles of organized la
bor, which object has ever been for the
advancement of the working classes
both from a remunerative standpoint
n well as socially. The fundamental
principles of any and all trades unions
pull pay for equal worvic
spectivc of sex. If this girl has worked
at the business long enough to be
ompetent press feeder no one knows
better than she that the union scale
for press feeders in Kansas City is
siderablv in advance of the sum she
stipulates as her week's earnings, and
that the scale in union printing offi
is the same for girls as for men. The
press feeders have a number of women
affiliated with them, and no doubt
would be more than glad to list this
girl among them. As a competent work
ing woman, she is entitled to the higher
wages paid in union offices and wouP
be looked after in just the same man
ner ns any male member of the organ-
ization.
The working girl question is one that
has caused unions more thought and
consideration than any other one issue
that labor is confronted with at the
present time. It is not the organiza-
tion that lets the girl look out for her-
self, but the almost absolute indiffer-
ence with which the girl looks at the
trade union. Of course, there are many
things to be considered in solving the
wage problem of the unskilled, but
when it comes to a skilled press feeder
working for a week, and the Kansas
City Post and the masses of the people
want to assist in remedying that evil,
the best and surest way to do so is to
locate the business men who patronize
such an establishment of peonage and
urge the business men to have their
printing don* in an office where the
union label is used, and rest assured
that office will lose no time in bringing
about a readjustment of affairs, and
this competent girl will be working at
a higher scale of wages.
Legislation in behalf of these un
skilled, underpaid working girls is re-
mote and far distant, and immediate
relief is needed. Laws pertaining to
shorter hours now on the Missouri stat
utes, largely through the untiring ef
forts of organized labor, have been re-
peatedly violated in the cities, and na
doubt are now being ignored in many
cases. What the working girl needs is
organization for her own protection. If
the Kansas City Post and the half mil
lion followers they claim will use their
efforts along this line, and then be con-
sistent in refusing to patronize the em-
ployer who persists in "running his
own business," even be it to the degen
eracy of his employes, there can be no
doubt as to the outcome. A campaign
of reform along these practical lines
will do away with the pathetic condi
tion and establish the working girl on
a firm self-relying and independent
footing.—Kansas City Labor Herald.
Washington. Aug. 6.—The eight-hour
bill for Dredgemeu which the American
Federation of Labor has urged for sev-
eral years, was passed by the house of
representatives without a dissenting
\ ote on July 31. This bill is expected
to overcome the ruling of the supreme
court when it decided that such persous
as Dredgemen did not come within the
scope of the eight-hour act of 1S92.
During the progress of the bill
through the house Miss Agues H. Wil-
son, secretary to the house committee
on labor, assisted her father, Mr. Wil-
liam B. Wilson, chairman of the com-
mittee, and while the bill was under
consideration she sat next to the rep-
resentative who frequently advised with
her as the debate progressed.
Miss Wilson, like her father, is an ac-
tive trade unionist and is a member of
the Stenographers and Bookkeepers'
union of Washington, D. C.
This is the first time a woman has
sat in the house while it was in session.
militant molders
Cincinnati, O., Aug. 8.—President Jos-
eph F. Valentiue of the Iron Molders'
union reports that never in all his ex-
perience has he seen so much activity
among the molders for better conditions
and higher wages and that the officials
of the international are being kept ex-
tremely busy, attending conferences and
assisting the local membership. He also
says that a number of very fine agree-
nts and understandings have been
reached with foundry managers in many
districts, particularly at Pittsburgh,
Pa., where a minimum of $3.75 a day
for molders and core makers has been
secured and an advance of 25c per day
for all who receive a higher rate than
the minimum $3.75.
j Don't
Shawnee.
Cleveland j misjudge a
; some trivial act.
It is well worth remembering that
! one
i must appear to be good
I only have high principles, one must
TELEPHONE GIBLS ORGANIZE
Springfield, Mass., Aug. 7.—The tele-
phone girls of this city have organised
a union with 230 members, having taken
heart by the recent success of the tele-
phone girls in Boston. Officials of the
telephone company are reported as say-
ing that they are not opposed to the
movement.
GROWTH OF PAINTERS
Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 8.—During the
six months ending June 30, the Brother-
hood of Painters and Decorators organ
ized 4S new local unions, the organiza-
tion now having 944 local unions in
, i!00d standing. The international paid
out $20,700 to its members as death and
textile workers successes
Washington, Aug. 8.—Mr. McMahon,
of the Providence Folders' Association,
reports that in every important Bleach-
erv, Print House and Die House, a min-
imum wage of $lo.00 per week of fifty-
six hours is being paid to union men.
Previous to organization, the highest
wages paid was $2.00 a day for a sixty
hour week. Mr. McDonnell, president
of the Philadelphia local, reports that
the wages of union dyers have advanced
from 10 to 40 per cent.; that 35 shops
in that city are now paying a minimum
of 25 cents per hour. Previous to or-
ganization, the maximum wage paid to
ilvers in Philadelphia was $12.00 for a
week of sixty hours. The dye house
workers at Tliompsonville, Conn., have
not yet succeeded in settling their dif-
ferences with the Hartford Carpet Cor-
poration.
"FLINTS" COMING BACK
Washington, Aug. 8.—At the Mon-
treal convention of the Flint Glass
. Workers delegates were elected to rep-
resent that organization at the next
convention of the American Federation
of Labor, 'he delegates being President
Howe, Secretary Clarke and C. F. Green
of Toledo. All the old officials of the
organization were re-elected except Na-
tional Organizer Conboy of Alexandria,
who is succeeded by Joseph Gilloolv of
Grafton, W. Ya. A resolution was unan-
imously adopted by the delegates thank-
ing the joint committees.of the Flint
Glass Workers and the Green Glass
Bottle Blowers who negotiated the new
agreement and who made unity of the
two organizations possible, thus mark-
ing the end of the long internal war be-
tween these two powerful organizations.
not actuated by the principles which I,jj,nitv benefits during the month of
they uphold as an organized body . May
trades unions are going to be misjudg j' '
«h1 There will always be some who STREET CAR MEN
must not only be good, but^ one, ^ ^ ^ ^ wkle8a Bot9 of|
forget the convention
August 19th. See to it that I shovr j„ every act, otherwise i>eo
« Iv not iffil I vour union is represented by your n0, believe th*t they are there.
Uted 'wtthVhe"central' 1-al'or Bodies "staunehest snd truest member. Much t k„ow „ very successful business man
work of importance to labor in Oklaho mRn who has made a large fortune
ma will be handled by this convention for himself, and an enviable position
(Cartels) of Iheir respective oommum
ties.
ss an authority on finance. Every man good.
MARSHALL-HARPER CO.
Succeiaori to J. M. Marshall Co.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
PRIVATE AMBULANCE
1010 North Broadway
Phones: Walnut 900
Waltut 123
UNION MEN ARE HOME BUILDERS
Detroit. Mich.. Aug. 10.—Division No.
421, Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employes, at Mr.
Carmel, Pa., recently entered into an
agreement with the Shampkin an.l Mt.
Carmel Transit Company by which a
wage increase of 10 per cent was ob-
tained. Division No. S5 at Pittshurg
business men. dependent entirely j secured a 2 per cent increase, 3,200 men
few men.
It is well then, for each and every
man who stands for organired labor
to let its high principles govern all his
acts that he may not. even in the small
est way. misrepresent a power
for
upon the condition of the working I being involved, the annual increa.e ag
. , . classes in this citv. should try to dis gregating $50,000. The street rai wav
Vnion men aro home builders m ex I ,h(, offorts of nniotl m,n to men of Hull. Ind.. have formed a local
fry sense of the word Tneir | . waacs. thus allowing them more union
average higher than the wages of the, ^ !- ^ men I
unorganired, an_i th-< - ney « «^.u should investigate the stand
VV> ";f™ J"; i,g in ,his regard of business men and
week by one who hasjiaae nnu ^ ,irpw ,h?ir tra,i, those who are in
realitv their friends
COOPERS EXPANDING
Aug.
Kansas City, Kans.,
Coopers' International
8—The
I'nion issued
barters for new locals lit Halifax, Nova
Scotia and Paragould, Ark., during the
month of June. The local union of
Pittsburg, Pa., succeded in getting all
their contracts signed for the coming
ar aud everything is running smooth-
ly for the Coopers in Pittsburg. The
strike in the Roston breweries involving
51 members, has been satisfactorily set-
tled. The men will receive the Satur-
day half holiday for the months of June,
July and August with no reduction in
pay. The Emrieh Cooperage company
of Evansville signed an agreement
granting an increase in prices. The
Beer Barrel Coopers are still on strike
in the Milwaukee Breweries, the de-
mand being an increase in wages of
7 He per hour.
MOTOR CO. REDUCES HOURS
Detroit. Mich.. Aug. 8.—The Hupp
Motor ' Company recently reduced the
workday for its employes from ten
hours to nine without reduction in pay.
This, in terms of money, equals an in
crease of 11.17 per cent. The company
employs several hundred workmen.
first We Make The Cloth—Then The Garments
ness to
send
for
home.
SUITS
nation wide strike
order that their mesgei
ly be sufficient to earn
Union men buy at ho
tO J'1 S. *
rise "Mfiir" plaee*.
v i here are dusj stores
- of lat*>r orjrtcint
. 1. m • 4-ise exists for
btv bases-
s Mraape ti kowev«
ALL
WOOLi
MADE TO ORDER
(« our twn thop by experi-
enced UNION TAILORS
hems
y 1
for quart erir
F. MORRIS. Manager
rlcta I aifcrat TaDon H fltcroa
17 NORTH HARVEY
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The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 10, 1912, newspaper, August 10, 1912; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc157111/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.