The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 24, 1919, Page 15

Brown s now in his big new home— J the finest, largest and best equipped fur building in the West. Starting 33 years ago, as a_fur trapper and huyer on a farm in Kansas, the Brown Fur Co. has outgrown building after build- | ing, until today they ‘are located in the splendid Brown Building, where they will be even better able to take care of their rapidly growing trade, 83 years of fair and square dealings with trappers and shippers — adhering strictly to their quoted price list — [§ .grading gh and paying promptly made possible their wonderful growth and their magnificent new home, GET A DEPENDABLE PRICE LIST The policy that paid for 33 years will be followed this season and ‘each suc- ceeding season. Brown prides himself on his dependable price list and high returns. He wants your furs, and he § will pay the price to get them. Write today for price list, shipping tags, etc. T. J. BROWN FUR CO. 116Brown Building ' Kansas City, Mo, Trappers Get Highest Market Price And Honest Grading 2 We buy all kinds of furs yand pay highest » market price, sending cash the day shipment is received. peri- . enced trappers know our policy, “A Square Deal to Every Shipper” means honest grading by experts—and top prices on allgrades. . Thirty years of success are the results of this square deal policy. You’llget more money from your season’s catch by ship- 8 ping to us. y ® WE KEEP YOU POSTED, R Get our price list, free shipping tags, and information for trap- pers. SENT FREE. McCullough & Tumbach 3 141 N. Main Street, St. Louis, Mo. it g ) 3 ANDERSCH BROS. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. ~_ PAYS 10% TO 50% ; MORE FOR neat home, Werhargs NoConmiss Ghok for 100% value sent at once. Write today for our latest price list and plrficnhrs’o! our - § sl!lgigl;%llS' AII‘ILOTRAPPERS& GUIDE . Boo lea bound, fllustrating all Ang:gl.a" Tel!se:ll about z Trappers’ rets, Decoys, Traps, Game HIDES TANNED INTO ROBES, $2.50 t0$7.50 over a, Don’t sell a single skin until you getour PaY: M ANDERSCH BROTHERS “Dept. 13 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, . _Mill,__Wdfkers Selling Theéir Own F lour Locked QOut by Operators, Labor Union Men in Kansas Capital Furnish Competition to Employers ARMERS and workers of at least one Kansas-com- munity have formed a real = economic alliance, and are co-operating to sell flour from a farmer- owned mill direct to the consumer through the worker. The plan result- ed from a lockout against 288 workers in the flour mills of Topeka, who had demanded better working conditions, shorter hours and more pay. Working 12 hours a day at low pay, they asked for a reasonable working day and $3.75%or a day’s work for cer- tain classes of skilled laborers. The men were refused rec- ognition and some of the mills were closed down on the pretext of “making repairs.” mills of North Dakota can supply out- side trade, these workers will be in the market for the people’s own prod- uct. In the meantime Topeka’s six big mills are operating with incompetent help and are giving the strikebreakers higher wages and better working con- ditions than the strikers sought.in their demands to the companies. The first car of flour shipped to the Topeka mill workers. In the door of the car are R. L. Cooper, former Kansas manager of the Nonpartisan league, and Organizers McCulloch and Lutteken. These men, more than half of them with families, were compelled to quit work without notice and without pros- pects of resuming their occupations.: They resolved to go into business for themselves and ‘compete with their former employers. At a meeting of Topeka unions, the organized wage- workers of the city subscribed $3,000 in 30 minutes to furnish the capital for the project. An order for a car- load of flour was sent to the Farmers’ union mill and elevator at Milliken, Col. When the car arrived many of the workers were there to help unload it. As the car was set out in front of one of the unfair mills, the owner sent in a riot call to the police. When the chief of police arrived with -his men he found nothing but an orderly group of men unloading the flour from the freight car. The chief bought a sack of flour and returned to headquarters. The first car of flour was disposed of in a day and another immediately ordered. The business grew rapidly and in order to facilitate financial matters it was decided to place the men handling the money under bond, just as any other business would do. Application for the bond was made to and accepted by "a local bonding company agent. — . But *when the application was sent to the head office in New York, the brakes were shut down. THE BOND WAS REFUSED. The head office an- nounced that “during the continuance at least of the present period of unrest in labor circles, this company has de- cided to place labor organization fraternal bonds on its prohibited list.” The action very evidently is not a result of fear that the bonds would not be good, but was the result of or- ganized opposition to all labor union activities, designed to discourage and hamper union labor in every possible way. It is an interesting sidelight on the practice of suppression of organ- ization among workers. - The Milliken mill is now shipping a car of flour a week to mill workers and as soon as the state-owned flour - REFRIGERATOR CARS HELD Using refrigerator cars for storage houses at freight terminals is holding back perishable foodstuffs from city markets and causing losses to grower and consumer, according to investiga- tors of the bureau of markets. A recent report on cars held at terminals made by one of the refriger- ator car lines shows that 67 cars were held.an average of 4.37 days at Chi- cago, while figures on 386 cars at Den- ver show an average delay in unload- ing of 6.36 days. Assuming that these figures hold at other markets and that the average time for a refrigerator car to make a round trip is about 20 days, it is pointed out that such delays would decrease the available supply of refrigerator cars by about 25 per cent. This, in the face of a present inade- quate. supply of refrigerator cars, is hampering the movement .of perish- able products from an acreage in ex- cess of that of past years. The acreage of- perishable crops is increasing each year, making it more imperative that adequate cold storage terminals be constructed for tempo- rary storage so that receivers can im- . mediately unload refrigerator -cars upon arrival at markets and send them back to the shippers. .MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP At the election of -June 3, the city of Los Angeles, by a vote of 1,300 “more than the necessary two-thirds majority,-approved the proposed bond issue of $13,500,000 for the purchase by ‘the municipality of the electric distributing-system of the Southern California Edison company. The pur- chase price will be $11,000,000, in- cluding the physical valuation of the system and $2,458,067 severance dam- ages for taking the business of the Edison company. \ By owning its distributing system, the city is able to market its own pow- er from the municipally owned and operated electric power plant over municipally owned lines. = This power is produced in one of the largest hy- dro-eléctric plants .in the country. PAGE FIFTEEN R T T B e e 0 At e et O T s 3V e L i e e o e L 2 G L i . Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers ANVERTISEMENTS TRAPPERS ‘You Will Dance with joy when you get your returns for furs ship e Abraham Fur Co., the house that never disappoints fur shippers. Qur expert graders in our *‘Take-up” Depart- ment have positive instructions to see that every shipper gets a liberal grade on every skin and are held accountable for all furs taken up by them. Our prices are the high- est ever known and now, more than ever, _you need the services of an old established, reliable and experienced fur house. There are no fur houses in the world which have these qualificatione to a greater extent titan the Abraham Fur Co. Ship Every Pelt You Have—Now 'We urge you to send us your next shipment of furs and let uessgmvn to you that our prices are the highest—our grading the most cor- = rect and liberal and our returns most prompt, We havebeen in the furbusiness continuously for 43 years and we have made more staunch friends.and have a larger percentage of regular old ghippers than any other fur houseinthe U.S. These facts justify our claims that Abraham is America’s Leading Fur House. Other R furhouses make thesesame claims, but it B} is generally conceded by our competito: that the hardest fur houseto fight a; T8 inst forbusinessisthe Abraham F\ero.glh ve to go some on the job early and late. S“PPLIB Get one of Abraham’s wonderful Smoke Pumps — $2.00 tpaid, with extra extension .10. Abraham’s Animal Baits and Trail X tle, 8 bottles for $2.60. $6.95. Get pers - ay. Weekly Reports—Tags W:iliterature—also free, Get the whole business with one postal card—write today. Jbrakam Far o, - 213-2185 North Maln St., Dept. 551 St.Louis, US4 “Ship your furs to Abraham*® trapping profits “ been so big! Demand % lorFURStarexceeds the supply. Now Isyour : opportunity tocash in big oney trapping. Theold Faithful Fur House of SQUARE DEAL MASON in St.Louls,needs furs to fill waiting orders. Ship here and get Top-0O’-The-Market Prices and quickest returns. NO COMMISSION EVER CHARGED Liberal Grading by expert grad- [§ vers, Best facilities for handling skunk, s:ufiknt. c:%n.tn{'gx.nffioa- : sum, and all kind o E AND ROOTS. £ ;] d _ “‘The very fur house I looked for 15 years’’ writes J. H. A Flantier, Alta, Can., who found out d Siiere, T 3Bk yie ) i others, (il MASON pays top prices. S ‘’Received your check for $19.70 and it is fine’" says Wm, T. Salch, Dewitt Co., Tex. Thousands of satisfied shippers, “Trapping For Profit and Sport.” and interesting infor- mation. Write for the book, pricelist, mnkx{l rts, Bent FHEE. " " Write MASON FUR 0., 250 Trappers F ARMERS Cut the price of oak h: leather in half. and_ furs for tanning, Hides tanned for to $7.00. High grade, green $14.00, $15.00 and $16.00. O in sides, 90 eg’luple’r 45::36' mle army ‘ overcon! onl o s ship) South Park Robe & Tanning Co.,