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We Sell cheaper than any other factory. TIRES, Coaster-Brake rear wheels, lamps, repairs and all sundries at half usual prices. Do Not Wait; write today for our special offer. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept.M-42, CHICAGO The Kalamazoo Improved Reinforced Pressed Is the most economical wheel Descriptive circular mailed upon When needing a VELOCIPEDE, don't forget to write us for prices on you. If you can't pay cash we'll sell you on the installment plan. KALAMAZOO RAILWAY SUPPLY CO., Manufacturers.- Ready January 1st-On Credit Our Spring Housefurnishings Sale begins January 1st. The catalog is ready now. It pictures 3,000 things for the home-things we sell for less than anyone else in America. Write now for the book. Our Annual Sale Each January we get out a new edition of this mammoth book. It is filled with a myriad things for the home which we bought at special reductions. It shows thousands of pieces of newstyle furniture which we bought from overstocked makers. It pictures countless bargains which our buyers secured at almost unbelievable prices. Sometimes they bought up whole factory outputs to get them. All of these bargains-3,000 of themare pictured in this big book. And we absolutely guarantee you, on every one, a saving of 15 to 50 per cent. We want every home-lover-old customers and new-to get this Spring Bargain Book. The book and the mailing are free. As the edition is limited, please write for your copy now. Pay As Convenient Our customers-600,000 of them-all bave charge accounts. They buy what they want on approval, then pay a little each month. We allow from 8 to 14 months' credit without any interest, any security, any red tape or publicity. Credit prices are exactly the same as for cash. We invite you to open such an account here. Anything in this catalog will be shipped on credit. We regard people who furnish homes as reliable, and they are welcome to our easiest terms. On Credit Furniture Silverware Lamps and Clocks All Sent On Approval 30 Days' Trial Anything in this catalog will be sent on approval. You can use it 30 days before deciding to keep it. If it isn't satisfactory-if it isn't a bargain which you can't match-return the article to us. We will pay freight both ways. You buy here without any risk. We show you more styles than any store in the country. We quote you prices which no house can duplicate. We send goods on approval and sell them on credit. Do you wonder that 600,000 people buy their housefurnishings here. Dollar Book Free This big book, with the postage, is rather expensive, for it pictures 3,000 articles. But, if you think that anything in it might appeal to you, we are glad to mail it free. We have a separate book showing 70 styles of Stoves and Ranges-from 89c up. If you want this Stove Book also let us know. Cut out this coupon and send it to us. and the big Spring Bargain Book will come by next mail. Please do this before you forget it. Cut Out This Coupon Spiegel, May, Stern Co. 1202 35th Street, Chicago Mail me the Spring Furnishings Book. Mail me the Stove Catalog. Name. Post Office SPIEGEL, MAY, STERN CO., 1202 35th Street, Chicago, Ill. (56) LOOKING BACK. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN with its cares and worries, its sorrows and its joys is now a thing of the past. Each new year we generally review the past and make new resolutions for the future. Let each one carefully review the mistakes. of 1910 and firmly resolve now not to repeat them in 1911, and not only resolve, but determine that the same will not be overlooked or forgotten. In reviewing the work of our organization for 1910, there is much that gives us pleasure. We commenced the year with a band of faithful workers on our field forces, who started in at their work with a vim and determination to obtain. results for our craft; sowing the seeds of hope in the breast of many whom adversity had made well nigh despondent and cheering them on their way with a promise of better things to come through thorough organization and persistent effort. Wherever these conditions were complied with, the promises have made good and resulted in new con Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. tracts and agreements with increased pay and better conditions. On roads not now under contract, things are in fair shape to get them in the near future. During the year 1910 we have had two strikes to contend with, one on the Southern Pacific, which is still in effect. It did not secure to our people any benefits direct but indirectly it has been beneficial in many ways. Another strike was on the D. & H. This lasted for six weeks and was a victory for the employes and brought them increased. wages and much improved conditions with a full recognition of the rights of the workers to make a bargain for their labor. The eighth biennial convention at Boston in 1910 was one of the most successful that we ever held and cleared off many matters for the benefit of the craft as a whole. The formation of the Ladies' Auxiliary in direct affiliation with the Brotherhood was a step in this direction and places that valuable adjunct to the Brotherhood on a firm basis in complete harmony with the parent body. Let us each SAFEGUARD YOUR LIVES. During the past year in which the interstate congress commissioners made their report, there were killed on the railroads of this country 10,313 men, women and children, that is one for every fifty minutes in each hour of every day in the 355 of those twelve months, and of that number 3,470, or ten each day, were employes; they were your brothers, your fathers, your sons and your next door neighbors who were killed. In the same year there were 105,234 people injured, or one in each five minutes of every hour in the 365 days of the year. Of that number 83,367 were employes. Railroad men, think of it! 80 per cent of the people injured were employes, not passengers, not outsiders, but just we common railroad employes. What do you think of that for a ghastly record in a business which advertises itself to be safe? Yet in the face of this there are thousands of miles of railroad tracks that are now being looked after by the foremen alone. Could you expect anything else? One road in particular, so the newspaper reporters say, has issued an order limiting the speed of trains on their lines because of poor trackage. Is there any excuse for this? Why should there not be inspectors whose business it would be to look after these death traps, as they can be called nothing else? Nearly every institution and line of industry Ifave their inspectors to safeguard the lives of employes and others who use the same, but in this one important industry nothing has been done. In the December ADVOCATE you will notice a resolution was introduced by Vice-President Vurpia and unanimously concurred in by delegates to the American Federation of Labor, asking for this protection. Now, it is up to the rank and file of all railroad workers to see that this is made into law, and one of the best methods I know of is to take the matter up with your congressmen and U. S. senators. Public sentiment carries a great weight with these men when it comes to enacting legislation and this is a matter of vital importance in which you are very much interested and it is your duty to attend to it promptly. GET BUSY. Why is it that we pick up paper after paper and read the railroad news in particular, and seldom see anything pertaining to the maintenance-of-way employes except when one is killed, then notice is to be had. If you ever expect to be known or noticed in this world of affairs it is time you were up and doing. Make yourself known and get your name in the papers; why hide your light under a bushel?. |