Show I THE TANGLE IA I A LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON CAR CAR- TON TON CONTINUED CONTINUED Day before ye yesterday morning Syd the members of ot the company who are going to make the picture Hot Steel arrived In the city In Inthe Inthe Inthe the after afternoon oon Paula her leading man who takes the part of ot a soaking soaking soak soak- ing pit superintendent made a visit to the mill to see how bow things could be done in the picture After quite a talk in the office Paulas Paula's director camera man and I Il assistant director went to another part of ot the mill where some Bome other shots shot were to be taken I took Miss 1188 Perler and her leading man over to the soaking pits where it Jt had been decided that the big dramatic climax climax cli cli- I max was to be played Syd you have met Potts the su suI superintendent superintendent su- su of the soaking pit at atour atour I our mills You know what a a. great bl big big- splendid chap he Is and of ot course you lIre are aware that he be knows his Job from the ground up as as he was with Leslie's father tather for a number number number num num- ber of ot years ears before I took the plant over We Ve have been on toe the verge of a strike for tor the last Jast three or four tour months A lot of ot workmen nave have be become become become be- be come Imbued with a great many so so- so Ideas ideas and they are putting forth propaganda which Is almost anarchistic In its Us intent We Ve have been having a great I deal of ot trouble among the men Mr Potts of ot course has no ho sympathy with them at all aU rightly deciding g that the man who does his work conscientiously will get a fair dealin deal dealIn In our plant and that's all there isto Isto is isto to It The night that Paula came Potts who had heard that the men were holding meetings meeting on the street cor corner corner or ner nero went down around the bend and there he came upon the man who has charge of ot the Ingot crane I standing on a soap box and haranguing har har- haranguing I the crowd on the wrongs of ot the proletariat and the way honest non non- est working men in our mills under the heel of the great trusts frusta are crushed and exploited The whole thing superintendent Potts told me yesterday morning was virtually a call to strike and after listening a while he became rather worried over the outcome The men were getting more and more excited said Potts and I thought it was time for me to in- in so I walked up to Denke and asked him If It he didn't have charge of ot the ingot crane at the mills He lie said i yes es I asked him 1 if he wasn't satisfied satis tied fied with his Job and he answered None of ot your damn business I and you get the hell out of ot here right away If It you Ou dont don't want to get ret hurt I I 1 knew Mr Prescott It was WM up to me then and there to settle up things If It I showed the white feather feath- feath eathel ei er I would have ha no control over those men again so I Just hauled i off and hit him one and he passed i out for about five Uve minutes Copyright 1925 NEA Service Ser Inc Tomorrow Tomorrow Letter Letter from John At- At den Prescott to Sydney Carton I AI-I i |