The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-12-14

THE OTHER SIDE.


CHAPTER A.
Une morning, two or three days after
/ Atbyshts departure from the city. three
wurknngmen entered kelvasnns office
/ " urkingmen Yes. There is that ON the
| face ot the hard orked, which tells its
tale of toll, n tnngurless bu' for all sub
tie revelation that speaks e. the heart.
| There Is that peculiar look, blending ct
age and youth, by some termed "a yuung
old loek." dull, oppressive, heavy e.
preston, seen only on those who t"ll ten
hours or more per day. 1t is "a hook tn t
tells sad tale of undue physical eNcrtIun
overwrousht muscle. 1t is the slow, slug
gish, obtuse expression that increasing
deadenIng, burdensnne fatigue ever stamps
upon the features ut man, woman Or child
Any person who labnrs ten hours per day
at hard w.Fk has the word = toll' written
upon his forehead as plainly as the mum
Der or marx Of the breast mentioned m the
apocalypse, So plainly that IT could br read
we're the man clad M the royal garments
81 KING Oh the melancholy pathos,
the s"ul-renderIng anguish seen on the
brow Of many that tnIl, rs simply mex
pressIble e-unutterable The hctItI,.''S
0essOrIes of rags or poverty y-strIcken novels
is not needed here. Every hneament of
the face speaks volumes of wretchedness,
volumes Of despair and woe. How many
nen daily walk our streets who arr I" the
artists eye truer, better picture Of mod
ern life than the best worzs Ot I.ILn,
Reynolds, kubens or Nandyke we're Of the
life Of their times And again, how many
roll through our streets a tf tieldamn, VIII"
typify IN themselves . slInIiItude of the
luxurious, effemrnate rotteness that sap
ped the foundation Of historic Rome
Mr. kelvason, We are "A committee, APP
pointed by the union, 70 respectfully lay
before you and the other employers lrp-
position, which that body has, in justice to
itself, deemed It necessary to make. So
spoke Henry Trustgood, and by Acquies-
c'.mce 81 spoke John McFlynn and oscar
Wood, the balance Of the commit o.
ga are what I queried RelVaso.I with
rising ire, IA a sharp, pcremptory voice.
- A committee, SIR, replied the man
deferentially.
Aud by what authority Air despOt-
le, tone autOcratIc.
The unlon, answered TrustgoOd res
pectfully, but with tirmness-
Don't know such party, said Relva-
son, curty, contemPIuously, and he turned
to his desk with rndeness observable only
ia the aplsh Lord Shoddy OF Count Start
up. H1
The committee stared at each other.
This WAS n rebuff they dad not eApect. They
were thrown into an indispensable dlhiulty
-enlbarraSsingly coIlfounded, and knew
not wlat t. do next.
Nothing will nonaius = man ~ readily
and completely asr01mvs the person hs
Is addressing rndely oF dtslaiRfully turn
away.
The committee saw that there was moth
ing left them bat 90, and 20 they did
They had not gone far before Spindle hail
ed them, They returned 10 th0 office
when Iielvaaun said with savage sneer
Men, | VIM give You some advice. The
sooner You emigraae, the better for your
selves, you are not wanted in this city,
and AGAIN he faced has dank with Vulg4I
Abruptnsss.
: air. RelvasMI, we are free agents. sol,
aud rightful sovereigns Of our own acts
persons aud accOuntabilities, and no man
dictnm do We fear" Twas McF1ynn tina
spoke.
Iselvason faced rUund, but the commit
tee we're gone.
4 They then visited the other employer.
and in each case laet with the same O
neAriy the sanIe reception StrAnge! No
The employers had y 1nion and acted n
concert.
Next day the men quietly left th
shops, and either remained ~ home o
! s0aght WORK elsewhere. Three slAys wen