| Show Strikes When Building the Pyramids F OMAN nature changes less than the fi Bra superficial thinker would ham havo the theU theLi U Li 7 world suppose Even Een away awny back in tho thu times of ol ancient Egypt Ept when tho Pharaohs were building themselves tho the tombs that tho the present century calls pyra pyramids there were strIkes anti and the question of at capital and noll labor resulted In organizations ions Thorn in la n a record of ot n 0 building trades strike as far or back bock as ns 1000 years before lie thu birth of or Christ Surely Surel this Is an nn antiquity enough to give Ie the labor strike tho ho dignity of oC on an established est hc custom Tho strike closely resembled many mon that are arc going on right at nt this minute more moro than that it wits was the tho masons who went tent on strike and defied that particular Pbs Pha Pharaoh moll raeh who sat Gat on Imperial ono one and ond thousands of ot years be bt before toro fore the Christine Christian era cru Now these bcd striking ma ran ranSons Sons eons of ot Egypt wore paid hold in rations at ot tho the end of at tho ho month and ond they claimed that such fulch were sera the size and hunger hun er of ot their respective families that tho ho food given gleo them each month was wan not enough to feed them hens and their families Until tho ho next pay po or ration day dar rolled roiled around In Intact fact tact by br tho the of oC a certain month they laid In III down dawn their tools ceased censed to labor lahar on their particular pyramid and declared d that thata thota a regular fully organized trUe strike Will vac on They Thoy said mIll that the tho paymasters which Pharaoh bad had put pot over them dishon dishonest est and nud that they did not give them nil all tho supplies that bat Pharaoh allowed for tor them but hut kept lots lota of or the food for their own private use ude The paymaster retort retorted retorted ed that tho the men were given ven all nil that was duo dime them and that It would last the month U if I It was not for tor the tho fact that tho the thomen thomen men anti and their families feasted like Jlko pIgs pig nil all the tho first half of at thu Iho month and as n a consequence con quence Were forced to go hungry tho ho last loot two weeks Tho The men went back bock to work but bot In n a aIto the Ito condition that Pharaoh himself would Investigate their troubles and decide on what was right Tho Tim King icing of at Egypt did dill finally como come to whore the masons were cro at tit work and decided In 10 favor of oC the strikers and ordered the paymasters to give them more food tood each month I Tho The men went back to work but In n a couple of or months they declared that tho paymasters had hall again begun bO un robbing them antI and once more declared a 0 strike Then tho ho paymasters are aro said Enid Ild In r tho the ancient Egl Ian tian which tell about this flint first of at all nU authentic labor troubles to have havo locked 1 the men out of at their work orl where whereupon whereupon whereupon tf upon they rushed throughout tho the city and raised a 0 riot Tho The King finally heard of t the tho rumpus and Lad had a 0 few tew of ot tho the strikers killed oft off did the he same name to a few Cew of tho the paymasters and sot hot the tho rest of ot the tho sulk strUt strikers Ont ers on to work again under a 0 new set let t of ot taskmasters I |
