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May 10, 1904. THE LABOR CHAMPION a 7Dd(BnocB Edm Vrnao Tirsiafl Do you buy groceries and meats where you get the most for your money, or did you ever stop to think that some stores make a little bit closer prices than others! This store especially desires the patronage of the working men and women of Topeka. Our prices are the lowest, quality of goods the best, and service first class. A FEW GROCERY PRICES. 2 packages Cero-Fruto 15c Evaporated Apples, 3 pounds for 25c Good Prunes, 6 pounds for 25c Very highest grade Gunpowder 50c Best Coffees, from 10c to 35c Guaranteed Baking Powder, per pound 15c Lemons, per dozen 10c 8 bars best Laundry Soap 25c Manna Grits, per sack 30c IN THE MEAT DEPARTMENT.

We carry a line of the best meats obtainable and sell them at prices that can not be duplicated. Chuck Steak, 3 pounds for 25c Rump or Rib Roast, per pound 8 l3c Boiling Beef, per pound 4c, 6c aad 8c Sausage (link or bhlk), per pound gl-3c Boneless Pork, per pound 10c Country Butter, best, per pound 18c New York full Cream Cheese 15c vantage of the opportunity to hustle, push and support of his make gives him to increase his profits, income and business. Does not the same thing hold good in the case of the unionist? Why should he not take advantage of the opportunity the union label holds out for him to increase his wages, secure better all round condition and increase his business of making a better and more stable market for his labor? When a unionist buys unon label products and does a little hustling to promote the sale of union made products and makes the union label an indepensable factor of trade, for the purpose of securing better wages and better conditions of work, isnt he working for his own interests? When he gains these things, hasnt his effort been better paid for than his labor in the factory, mill or mine? When the unionist receives so much per day or per week from his employer he is working for his employer, but when he is supporting and pushing the union label he is working for himself. Everything he does in the interest of the union label is making his labor the work places more profitable to himself. Working for the union label and union is what it' actually costs unionists to get better wages and conditions.

Buy union label products and hire union labor and make union busi- NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD. The United Garment Workers International union has increased in 13 years from 3,000 to 50,000. The International Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers Association will hold its annual convention at Buffalo in June. Louisville, Employers association declared for the open shop and also for the establishment of trade schools. An international labor congress at St.

Louis during the Worlds fair has been proposed by the central body at Milwaukee. Judge Kavanagh in an injunction against the Chicago solar plate workers, especially states that picketing is permissible. Boot and she workers union spent $404,322 last year. About equal sums were spent for sick benefits, strikes and advertising the union label. As a result of the meeting of the miners and operators of Beaver Valley, the miners in the vicinity returned to work pending the consideration of the new scale.

The miners of Christian County Coal companys mine at Taylorville, 111., who has been on a strike since the strike for that district was agreed upon, returned to work. Two hundred molders and pattern- On account of our large country trade we handle an immense quantity of country butter and fresh eggs. Every pound of butter we send out is sold under a positive guarantee to give satisfaction. It will pay you to give us a trial order. Do it today.

THE SHAWNEE ROCHDALE CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, IRWIN Manager. ness good at all times. The employers are better organized and are more active and their energies directed more against labor when business is depressed than at other times. This certainly can not have escaped the workers who have followed the wage reductions and other impositions practiced by the employers in almost all lines of industry since prosperity began to recede from its extreme height. It becomes more necessary than ever that the workers should safeguard themselves, not only against a depressed business state, but against the efforts of employers at such times.

The most effective safeguard is buying union label goods and an active interest in the welfare of the union. Shoe Workers Journal. In this months Federationist President Gompers says: Organized labor will resist any attempt at wage cutting just as it has prevented wage cutting in the past, and preparation is necessary to accomplish this work. Just as sure as the sun rises and sets, just as sure as the tide ebbs and flows, there will come an industrial stagnation in our country. We should be prepared for it and let the burden of it fall on those who are directly responsible for it and not on the working men and wage earners.

makers of the Fore River Shipbuilding and Engine company, at Quincy, Mass, joined the strikers, making a total of 3,000 men now idle. The dissatisfaction of the sheet and tin-plate workers over the reduction of 18 per cent seems to be increasing. The Griffith plant at Waynesburg, has closed. Others will follow. At Lawrence, the Arlington cotton and worsted mills will curtail production, operating but four days a week, because of lack of orders.

Fifteen hundred operatives are affected. The Indiana block coal miners, District No. 8, have voted to reject the proposition of the operators for a two years contract under last years conditions, with a 5 per cent reduction in wages. Bakers joint executive board has received word from San Francisco that many bakers there are unemployed and warns fellow workers of New England against going to California. The Amalgamated Association of Sheet Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Theodore Shaffers union, has accepted a wage reduction of 18 per cent.

The cut is operative until the last day of June this year. On June 9 next the Order of Railway Telegraphers will celebrate its eighteenth anniversary, having been organized at Cedar Rapids in 1886. Both Phones 697. Champion. Patronize the merchants who advertise in your paper.

The Labor Champion is appreciated by those merchants who are in sympathy with the laboring mans cause, or who look for the busi- ness of the wage-earner, and they use its advertising columns. There is hardly a firm in the city that could stand out openly and say it did not care for the work- ingmans trade, but names could be given of business men who have nothing but hard words to hand out in return for a generous business patronage. Stand by the business men who stand by you. You can purchase as cheaply and advantageously from The Labor Champion advertisers, with as good treatment thrown in, as from any or all others combined. Patronize our advertisers.

Help your friends. Get Union Label goods. BAKERS. Fair Shops. Ideal Bakery, corner Sixth and Jack-son streets.

Rost Bakery, 219 Kansas avenue. Royal Bakery, 833 Kansas avenue. Jacob Petri, 400 Leland street. G. Urban, 810 N.

Kansas avenue. French Bakery, 825 Kansas avenue. Unfair Shops. G. H.

Lawlor, 915 Kansas avenue. Henry Vesper, 113 East Sixth street. Snyders Bakery, Tenth and Topeka avenue. Wm. Voit, Parkdale Bakery.

Show this list to your wife, tell her wha it means, and the bakers will soon get results. See that the Union Label is on every loaf of bread you buy. If the snaky form of government by injunction is not crushed, then it would have been better for your children if they had not been born. Independence is the mother of all human progress. Patronize a Grocery which is thoroughly unionized.

The Star Grocery always has the best bargains for the working man that can be obtained in the city. Best Japan Rice, lb. 5c Coffee, lb 10c 2 lbs. good Crackers 15c 2 lbs. Vanilla' Wafers 25c 25c can Baking Powder 20c 6 lb3.

best Beans 25c 2 boxes new Cherrjes 15c Strawberries, per box 5c Star Grocery Wholesale and Retail. E. Montgomery, Prop. 112 611), Both Phones 252 623 Quincy St. S.

Tell the Last month 1,070 new members were added to the orders rolls. Brush Makers International union has requested organized labor to assist that union in having the authorities revoke their determination to introduce the manufacture of brooms into the Minnesota state prison. From a toiler in the machine shops of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy to the presidency of the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific railway, which is one of the Burlingtons chief competitors, is the career of B. L. Winchell.

An American steam thrashing machine has been taken into Damascus, which is said to be the oldest city in the world. On its way to Damascus the heavy machine broke every bridge and attracted the attention of the entire country. A strong fight against unionism is now being made by the Draper Machine company of Hopedale, Mass. Employes are being compelled to sign an agreement that they will not join a union as long as they remain in the employ of the company. Dressier Hollender, 'contractors of Perth Amboy, N.

obtained a verdict for $500 dabages against the walking delegate and members of the Bricklayers and Plasterers Protective union of Perth Amboy for damages resulting from a boycott. The general strike and lockout of lithographers was officially declared off, the union by a clear majority having voted for the arbitration agreement recently submitted in a referendum vote. The 10,000 or more idle employes throughout the country were ordered to return to work. Two hundred boilermakers employed in the local shops of the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad at New Haven, went on strike as the result of the companys refusal to grant them a nine-hour day and a 15 per cent increase in wages. Out of every dollar that the American national makes each year the railroads get about 12 cents.

And out of every dollar that the railroads get the employers get 66 cents and the government gets about 3 cents in taxes. The total income of the railroads last year was nearly $2,000,000,000. There are now in Belgium four schools for the instruction of fishermen. The pupils are taught how to read weather charts, how to make the best use of currents, what the bottom of the sea is like, how to manage their own nets, how to manage a boat in a storm, how to use the latest inventions in the line of fishing apparatus, etc. There are about 250 pupils now in these schools.

A proposition to form a wage workers anti-high-rent union to demand a reduction of 25 per cent in rentals was not approved by the New York Central Union. Telegraph operators have demanded $2.50 per day and train dispatchers $80 per month from the elevated railroad systems of New York. The only labor bill to pass the New York legislature was one to punish counterfeiters of union labels. In our country every hamlet has its church which appeals silently to the God of nations and draws to its altar the worship of intelligent free men. There would not be a non-union store in Topeka if thg union men would do as they should.

merchant you saw his ad in The Labor UNCLE SAMS CIGARS. Plight ot a Man Who Tried to Get the Best of the Customs. The customs regulations permit a person to bring in for Iris own consumption 50 cigars or 300 cigarettes, the ruling of the department being that for customs purposes fifty cigars equal that many cigarettes. Travelers are always arriving who do not know the regulations or who try to evade them. Niue times out of ton the traveler at once wants to make it a personal matter with the inspector and acts as if he thought thrashing the official would get his cigars in free.

Then he cools down a little and offers to pay duty on all over fifty and take them all. There he strikes a new cause of rage. The smallest number of cigars that can be imported is 3,000. All under that and over fifty are seized. The inspector endeavors to explain that he did not make the law and is responsible only for its execution as he finds it, but that seldom works, and the traveler goes away breathing fire and mad with desire for vengeance.

A man came in from Havana recently with a box of cigars out of which he had smoked fifteen. There were eighty-five left. The inspector who examined his baggage told him he could have only fifty. The man declared that it was an outrage and intimated that he believed it to be perpetrated for the inspectors personal amusement. Who gets the rest? he demanded.

They are seized for the government, was the reply. Thereupon it was evident to the man that the outrage was for the benefit as well as the amusement of the inspector. I dont suppose you smoke? he sneered. Not on duty, suavely replied the inspector. Well, you wont smoke these off duty, cried the man and began to break them up.

Hold on, said the inspector. You mustnt do that. Why not? demanded the man. They are my cigars. No, they are not, replied the inspector.

They belong to the government. No words would fit that situation, and the man went away. A little later he charged into the office of the law division, prepared to tear down the custom house. lie wanted to know, and he wanted his information quickly. Not my cigars, eh? Well, they hadnt been brought In yet.

Oh, yes, they had. They were considerably inside the three mile limit when you had them on the pier. A little argument cooled him off, and he finally said: Well, Ill take my fifty, and you can have the rest. You havent got fifty now, said the official. Havent got fifty? he screamed.

Id like to know why I havent. Youve said all along I could have fifty. Yes, but you broke them up. I didnt do any such thing. I broke up the extra thirty-five! Oh, no.

Those are Uncle Sams. You were breaking up your own. But I dont think you destroyed them all. There are about fifteen still left for you. And he had to do the best he could to seem content with fifteen.

All of which shows again how foolish it is to kick against the pricks. Most men do it, however, and sometimes they beat Uncle Sam out of his cigars. There have been instances where men so situated pitched the whole supply overboard in their rage. Century. Perfection Flour is Union made..