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Show I DISHONEST. A certain man was employing', a company of workmen to perform per-form a task for him and was payuig the workmen $6.50 pel day and their board. They were skilled laborers, as the salary would indicate, and were of a class of mechanics that has been demanding higher 'wages. The man who was payed for the work happened to be standing in an obscure place near the workmen one day and overheard over-heard one of them complaining to the foreman of the gang for the pace ho was setting. The laborcr.a man whose conscience would permit him to light his cigarette while at work, smoke contentedly and "soldier" on the job, said to the foreman that he waB making a mistake In hurrying hurry-ing things along for tho job was a good paying one, the work was pleasant and the longer it could be made to last the more money the entire crowd wtould make. That man evidently thought he was arguing for Ills own interests but as a matter of fact his "soldiering" altitude had already been observed by the contractor in chargo who had reported his findings to tho man for whom tho work was being done and when the last named individual heard with his own ears the spoken testimony of tho man himself that he was a dishonest laborer, tho case was complete. Tho contractor promised himself that that particular par-ticular man would not get a job of him again; the property owner promised the contractor that ho would never complain if the man was discharged on the spot, badly as he was needing need-ing tho service of workmen. A laborer has his labor to sell, if he labors with all his might, he Is worthy of his hire nc matter what the price may bo. If he be ever so good a laborer and is deccptlvo in that ho doeE not give tho best that is In him for the wage he is receiving, and especially when that wage is seven dollars and fifty cents per day and three good square meals and a bed to sleep in at r'ght, he Is unworthy. Incidentally, tho laboring class may well take inventory of themselves and see if they arc giving service for the money they reoelve. Dishonest laborers labor-ers do more than anything else to establish a dead line between capital and labor, a condition 'which generates suspicion and is a breeder of labor wars. In any event, no laboring man has tho right to characterize The capitalist as dishonest and a foe to tho laboring class, when he himself assumes tho dishonest dishon-est attitude of the individual mentioned above. Box Elder News. |