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Show A COMRADE IN MISFORTUNES ; To Gentlemen who concentrate their ' ' sympathies exclusively on the woes ol ' 1 capital and. the persecutions of prop- r erty We recommend the reading of the ease of Henry Diehm in yesterdayy's i-World i-World DIehm's life for many years consist. ' ed in getOng up every day at 3 a. m working tfU 7:30 p. m. and got home at 9 p. m. He worked thirteen and a half hours a day, consumed, three and I a half hours a day in getting to and from work, allowed himself five and a half hours of sleep and had for pur- poses of receation one-half hour each ' b day. He got no vacation and received, V as salary $15 a week. p r,Lat Mondav be wrote his wife: R Good-bye to all Forgive me for this P act; I am tired of getting homo at 3 " k A. M. for work and getting home at R S P. m. Please, Emma, give me a Ir grave. . Thqn, unmindful of the dignity and B responsibility of labor, he took a shot- i 1- gun and blew out his brains. New: ' M York World. fl |