The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-17
NASBY.
He Proceeds to Organize Section-The
Result.

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Wlch Is In the State Nv Kentucky),I
sept. |, 1873.
felt IL incumbent onto me to 90 TO Factry-
Vile, village HARDLY, and establish a lodge
NV Nashnes, NV the Kearney kind. Factry-
Vile wnz established by a company NV Massey
choosits disturbers, wich nvadid the sacred soil
Tor the purpus Nv manufactrin iron wich is
found there in great quantities, and they hev q
mill into wlch about a hundred men hev bin
employed The price NV iron hevin gone down,
these sraspin monopolists he'd the ashoorence to
ask their suflerin labers 10 redoose their wagis,
givin the frivolous pretex that ez the price NV
Twin he'd gone down also, they Good afford to
work for a tri6e less. EZ most the men
owned their own houses, wich they he'd saved,
and was comfortably fixed, they coodent git
away, and he'd to endoor the ojus exacshuns NV
the grlndin capitalists. And ez colockshuns
wuz difficult, and they didn't git their wagis
with the regularity of former yeers, they muir
INJURED some, which felt 1t my dooty to i'm
prove. They needed a leeder, for none NV 'em
knew how much they wuz suherin till 1 went
and told EN-.
he'd toerable easy time NV it, made EN-
two speeches, in which l showed EN- they wuz
groanin under a tyranny compared with wich
the suhorins NV the Rooshun serf was nothin,
and that they wood never hev ther own till
they organized and crushed their oppressors 1
showed EN- that wat they wantid wuz to crush
out capital, and be themselves their own rool-
ers. 1t wuzn't hard 10 do, and the second mite
! organized a seckshun.
rhe ritooll writ myse II, basin il on Kear-
ney's dee 1t wuz very breef, and run suthin
like this:
"Hath the brother wrongs?''
''He hath. -
"Doth the brother brood?' D..
''He doth. -
'Is he a successful brooder?"
'He is. -
'Doth the brother look forward to the time
when he will hev his iron heel on the neck NV
his oppressors, and will hev the lecherous en-
ployer by the throat?''
''He doth"
'Doth the brother understand the yoose NV a
box NV matches?'
''He doth. -
sis the brother willin, in this holy croosade
NV labor agin capital, to buy his own matches,
or is he so craven-spertid to ask the Order to
| furnish them?''
'Re Will buy his own"
''Hath the wronged brother two dollars and q
half In his trowsers to help the coz by supportiu
| the agitator?n
Ihe wronged brother at this stage prodoosed
the money, which took to strengthen the coz
| and then perceeded with the lecter. / remarkt
| still he wua addin to his bonds Wat he wantid
10 do wuz to rise. He wantd to demand an
| ekal divshun NV property, and eff this reasona-
| bic demand wuZn't acceded to, he wantld TO de-
| stroy wat property ther wuz He wantid to de-
| mand an onlmitd issoo Nv money, TO be divided
| In some way so that he wood git all that he
| wantid, and that the hours NV labor shood be
| fixed by law, and the wages also. He shood de-
| mand sich lcglslashen ez wood let MIN live /
| absloot luxury, no matter wat he wuz. The
more incompetent or averse to labor he wuz the
| greater the dooty NV the government TO see that
he didn't want for anything Eff after he he'd
| riz and these demands wuzn't granIid then the
| matches shood come in.
| linishiated the entire force NV the factry, and
| the next mornin they marched In body TO the
| mill and demandin their heaven-given rites.
| Ihe oloated employers tried to reason with EN-,
| ana tried TO show EN- that they wuz payin all
| they Good afford to in the present deprest con-
dishn nv things, and that they wuz gittin now
ez much ez they wuz before, when the cost NV
| Twin wuz taken into account. They he'd the
| impudence TO Tell EN- that ef they he'd to accede
TO ther demands that they wood hev TO shet up
| the mills, and one NV EN- told the men that ef
they wood assoom the mortgages, ex well ez
| the bzns, he wood be perfeckly willin TO re-
linquish II then and there.
| The workmen wood hev yielded, but / havs
made EN- a speech wich whooped it up agin.
They became infooriated and moved on the
works. In less than mint they had guttid
IL; in five minits IL wuz in flames, and in O
half-hour it wuz in ashes, aud the men firmly
but determinedly moved of. The first battle
for the rites NV man he'd bin fought in Faclry
Vile. and the first victry NV labor over capita
in Kentucky he'd bin achieved.
The men wuz Jubilant and congratulated
EN-. We adjourned 10 the grosery and poured
out lbashens nv sod-corn whisky over our trl
umph.
Things wuz boomin' for day or two FL
nally The men begun TO git SOBER and wen
home to their families notise by the close u,
the third day an ominus change in the demeano
toward me.
SIS the bosses goin' TO bid agin?" they askeC
one NV another.
lrulher think not, wuz the anser. eth
: TACT is, all that they he'd wuz investid in then
mllls, and that is gone. They hahn y got nothin