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Show DREW LINE AT TURKEY SCALE. "Yaller Male" Wages Was All Employer Em-ployer Would Pay. Many are the stories told of the wit of the lnte Patrick Sherry of Lynn, Mass., who hulled from the Emerald Isle and became a successful shoe manufacturer. Mr. Sherry nt one time had trouble with his stitchers, who demanded nn Increase of wages, and, falling In their demands, decided upon a strike. After several efforts to arrive nt a settlement settle-ment had failed, he announced that ho would hold n conference with the strikers. Tho meeting was held In front of tho shop, Mr. Sherry standing on the steps. After somo wrangling nnd arguing, Mr. Sherry, seeing that tho girls wero obdurat" and that nil further fur-ther efforts to effect a compromise were useless, abruptly closed the conference, con-ference, exclaiming: "1 see, girls, It's turkey ye want, but it's jnller mole (yellow meal) ye'U get!" |