| Show VOICES PEOPLE words 50 of f itse warning for wander ln workers EDITOR HERALD history repeat itself in every case of cause and effect for the benefit of the class of intellectual and profess profession lon al gentlemen just now interested I 1 will recall one out of gous cases that happened happ ped year goat a certain time in in a certain iron iron mill in great britain there were ware employed beside other forge forged men say peddlers lers working 6 ri L in tho the 24 hours 50 on a shift each 1 ach man earned eay say 18 pence an r h 12 shillings illings eb a day enough in few years to make him independent for life but unfortunately udd lers like many other wag evor I 1 ere were not vered in domestic economy nor inel inclined inid to study the science hence they squandered all they earned maini ay y over ver thel 4 cups cupe singing I 1 wb when en the ant man come comes to shore lie ile spends lis money then than borki forbore dull tim tirom came the output had to be decreased and of course i wages had 1 lo 10 be reduced the astute legal representative of the 64 po powerful gerful and arid soulless corporation the iron company bit upon a grand achem ac liem and at a directors addres addressed md them you need not fear a strike four fifths of the peddlers lers are in debt and the rest have bave no money saved up the they could not hold out a month besides I 1 have a it plan to lay bea before ore you which if carried out will draw the wool over their eyes and reconcile them to he the 10 per cent reduction have them work two offis instead of nf three 10 hours to a shift shifty let the machinery and furnaces stand idle two hours in the morning and two in in the evening 1 I will till convince your deject employees who have and arid always hid have more muscle than brain that they are act actually ask usk 11 going ag to have their wag wadea ea ad a 7 danced by working the extra taso hours they will make 20 00 per e r cent more money in a month fea leu s the reduction an actual advance in wage cheece by the bloated jay aristocrats aristo ariato to toc rats cali encouraged bythe by the approbation and warming up with hie big subject he be continued continue 3 but gentlemen how much more per cent you will gaj gain in i b by y the mischief the new system will work among them I 1 cannot now estimate first wo we will have the power to discharge one at a time not to excite alarm the dangerous independent waster spirita spirits who can see further farther than the common herd and who arc are always preaching to the peddlers lera lers about preparing for war war in limes of peace and for layr ing up for cumine in time of plenty I 1 next come the unreliable md and the he drunken classes ot of 11 orge meir among shohe retained especially roll t turners ir ners you will find many of of the hog and dog type who would work any number of extra hours rather than divide with their needy unemployed fellow craftsmen all this will enhance our cause fifty men on topi top of a hundred thrown on the labor market will glut it you know the well established rule when an article is scarce it b i dear when plentiful cheap so 80 with labor on the market an AM ath other erred reduction of wages must inevitably evit ably follow deafening cheers cheen there come comet a tramping hungry operative humbled by ad ready and will willing ila to work at lit any price some of those employed hogs bogs have got fat MILROY and arid independent now is your time to punish them and replace them wi with ti i the humble and meek rest assured gentlemen the eight hour shift system will never need be se re stored the corporation will ill gt got stronger and the improvident ja A borer brer never regaining one lost step history must repeat it iti self enthusiastic cheering now gentlemen how fortunate I 1 it is that we are dealing with rough tin uncultivated cultivated and ing forger neu instead of am american i telegraph operators who are well educated refined dignified and in dependent Cent gentlemen lemen as t they ey ought to be bel groans und and a vo voice jay gould ought to starve them into submission an at any coo cost t 11 1 I mean to say if these for gemen had possessed the in telli genee that the educated operators have buye they would have made it an imperative tivo rule to save up and bank 10 per er cent of their wages for at least save ahne years and thus have prepared thom themselves for fora a strike with a sure uro prospect of winning A voice berh perhaps a ps yo your ur intelligent american Americ nn 0 operators pera tors are no more provid provident than our illiterate british for gemen laughter and go for them goeldl in the meantime our forge mca mc would never show themselves eager to work overtime but would always bo be in pressing times to ob ligore W company there being no unemployed for gemen around wanting to w work 0 A extra hours ae As it is wo we will ft ill get them ac und and reconciled to working extra hours especially the easy wora d tur turner nere and by aud and ajr on oil w some cold winter day when we get ready coolly inform them that they need no longer boast oad aid let everybody know what a grand suza per month mouth they have bea been earning by working extra houn hours at high prices not being content with good regular lArv ogo berthat but that they now do the extra work gratis IDe idealea las ing cheer cheers Gentl gentlemen emeal attus be thankful for the dog with witha 4 booe boggi s L selfish elfi ih and mean but and nearsighted doll rott i sal that dwell dwells ia in the heart a ol 01 men man ir it were bot so 0 o our no so called grinding monopolizing monopolising lising corporation would not ot want wan to cut mene mens wage wages never more to bo ve restored re if we w can help ik bul bu increase our out dividend dividends nt neither ither would wll well to do wage workers f while earning good monthly wage wages work extra hours while aneney an enem o aloyed follow workman would woula be glad ia of even the crumbs bat that fall fal from from the wa matere table vincet cm dee dec |
