The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-06-05
now THE STRIKE WAS ENDED.


"A strike they say, In the Melton mill
TIE id.e wheel In the stream stands siil,
While water rais through the braces run,
Where tle drops ti trickhnl one BY one
only the sun -it waves look bright.
SalmmerinE upward 10 golden ighti
Only .he weed that torn with spray
Il glad q rest AL the LrsionB day
Undar the hgi-.ids low doors ajar.
Echo l.uI tbrears ~ the .'haud-n at war;
pae women vAkcn from troubled sleep,
Iesrng me olths men have sworn d keep;
Plying ttc tr.on on tAl hearth-stone cold,
Scarce hiding tears Whea ths COW Is sold
isluiIy watching if each ne day
Tee boss shall ., esk Or the Iuen give way.
Great Roger Green leads the angry band,
huaug ''The Union Eith iron hand
k4r many q in the fortnight past
Hss sousnt " speak snd bts feared at Last
fear-I TOR the sung % ms litter l-st
re red tor she vengeance bus dmiy guessed.
Ul bin Eho l13ks iruu the pluuSushAre back,
hor iares 70 hunger, ana suleT lax.
But yesterus sht when the meal was out
his gray -hAtF.d mother hss-- rev stout,
Ana n= asked LIN ec'7 ~eiiF-
The wife loved in bis rl.-ged way,
thinking the qaesiion ste dared . say,
Wong lls liuEes the cupboard door.
Thai AIS eyes might count all It's wasted store.
SO The strike continued TIL one night
Ills daughter Nelly srss strangely Snte,
Aui ne drs 81 pain on her 70 ,H-ad lay,
iil ihs stars vent out in The h. of day.
By the uuudle-ted, IKE fai.liul hound,
without motion, without soauo,
sat holger tirsisss uil Nelly stirred,
ana hei Il riins ist ned " catch each word.
TIE wee hct hands On tue blanket laid,
Drew closer tog-thur while Nelly prayed,
But fes ana faint were tue words she -aid:
'Giys as, car Father, our daily bresd'
The strike IS over, the milrs astir,
The ~orsmen tend wlere the spindlss Whiri
And Roger watches " "a eager eye
Nl-u tue noon -h0ar tells oi Nelly nigh,
bul De never tells 0I She mig - spell
has broke a. lhu bidding oI feeble Nell.
--srIHt,n hfpHti'ela.
5iss L.lu's iaes are very pretAy worled, very pa
hets, au- taer rhyme good out IRE sentiments there
n expressed Dictated by perverted W sgntld Jude-
aear She pictures, With eommenda5is pathos tha tr
luls1ns 1itts strikers, rbe determination " be "Irou
Hanlr sh0 si them, tha uF rias. Little Nellie ana
how Dis hard hesr at last nhsd CD her peadings
Al this would seem 30 argue that tue sa.rng which 10
described .oli1wng the suK-. the child % the
sc ,leme1's folly or crime committed IN attempting
iurce emp oyyrs t5 pay living wages. There 10 no
g5ri g condemnation for the employer It is not bis
,uplty, tgt ihe EarSingm rapa-t that breeds
ae strike. Revered capita could possibly gantY
s4eh srme; AMI, syea possible for the pos
.ess1rs "a tli worius .dJ u 90 augAt wrong. tner
-y deeds not d sulieca iorsoag uny the praises
reduced rhyme dai fvyr 1 sylup phsnnc eyes As of
dead men are aaiursd ~ emem5sr only tAeir good
deeds G1d SHOWS sh,s sfs Of sefshaess shat ~olld
.r8ys light iak for The memory Mss Lynn' poetic
.bItes think might easily hld more CON nenizble,
Il net more profitable, enpoymeut. Let her remember
wages capital bat TO isssen The severi
-- 81 TH- world bat the wages Of truth ineHlsss-
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