The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-10-09

bin employed. The price NV iron
hevia gone down. these graspia mon
opolists he'd the ashoorence to ask
Their suiferin laborers to redoose Their
wagis, giyin the frivolous pretex that
ez the price Nv livia he'd gone down
also they Good afford to work for a
trifie less. Ez most Nv the men own
ed Their 81 houses, witch they he'd
saved. and was comfortably fixed,
they coodent git away, and he'd to
endoor the ojus exacshuns Nv the
grindin capitalists. And ez colleck-
shuns wuz difficult and they didn't
git Their wages with the regularity Nv
former yeers, they murmured some,
witch / felt it my dooty to improve.
They needed a leeder, fer none Nv
'em knew how much they WIZ suffer
10 till | went and told 'em.
| bed a iolerable easy time nv 1t.
/ made EN- two speeches in wich |
showed 'em they wuz groanin' under
q tyraaey compared with wich the
suifsrin Nv the Rooshen serf WIZ
no.hin, and that they wood never
hev Their own till they organized and
crushed Their oppressors. / showed
'em that wat they wantid wuz to
crush out capital, and be themselves
Their own roolers. 1t wuzn't hard to
do. and the second mite | organized q
seckshun.
The ritooal / writ myself, basin it
on Kearney's idee. 1t wuz very
breef, and run snthin like this:
Hath the brother wrongs p
Gle hath"
Doth the brother brood z"
"He doth"
as be a successful brooder 7"
Gle is"
Doth the brother look forward to
the time when be will hev bis iron
heel on the necks Nv his oppressors,
and will hev the lecherous employer
by the throat 2"
Gle doth"
Doth the brother understand the
yoose Nv a box Nv matches 7"
"He doth"
"Is the brother willin, 10 this holy
crusade Nv labor sgin capital, to buy
his own matches, or is be so
spirited q - ask the Order to furnish
them gn
"He Will bay bis own"
Hath The wronged brother TWO
dollars aud a half 10 his trowsers to
help The coz. by support;n the agits
TOR ?"
The sroaged brother at this sage
r,doesed the money, wich took 20
strengthen the eCg. and then proceed
ed wih tee lea:er remaikt that
be guz a g~rJylin slave, and that by
lyia still be VEG adGia to bis bonds.
Wat be wantin TO do VIZ to rice,
Re wanted to demand q ekal divi-
shgn Nv property, and eli this reason
able demand wuza'C aecseded to, he
wanlid to destroy wat property tier
wuz. lie wantid to demand an on.
limited ishoo Nv money to be divided
ia som way 50 that be wood git all
that he wantid, and the hours Nv Ia
Dor shOod be fixed by law, and the
wages also. He shood demand SIGH
legislashen CT wood let him live in
absloot luxury, no matter wat he WIZ
The more incompetent or adverse to
labor he wuz the greater the dooty
Nv tie Government to see that he
didn't want for enything. IF after
be he'd riz and these demands wuza't
grantid then the matchcs shood come
in.
| Insulated the entire force of the
factry, a1d the next morning they
marched in a body TO the mill and de-
manded their heaven-given rites.
The bloated employers tried to rea
son with 'em, and tried TO show 'em
that they wuz payin all that they
Good afford to, in the present deprest
cond;shGn Nv things, and that they
wuz getiin now ez much eZ they wuz
before, when the cost Nv Twin wu2
taken into account. They he'd the
impudence to tell 'em that ef they
herd to the demands that they would
hey to shet up the milis, and one Nv
'em told the men that eff they wood
assoom the mortgage, ez well ez the
biznis, be wood be PERFECTLY willin to
relinqlish it then and there.
The workmen would hev yielded,
but | made 'em a speech wich whoop-
ed it up again. They became infoor-
lated and moved on the works. In
less than a mint they he'd Quilted it,
and in five miDits it wuZ 10 flames,
and in o half hour it wuz in ashes,
and the men Grmly but determinedly
moved OF. The irst battle for the
rites nv men he'd bin fought 10 Fac
try vile, and the first yictry Nv labor
over capital 10 Kentucky bed bin
achieved.
The men wuz iubilant and | con-
gratchoolated EN-. We adjourned to
the grosery store and poured out !iba-
shens Nv sod-eorn whiskey over our
triumph.
Things wuz boomin for a day or
two. Finally the men begun to git
and went home to ther families.
| notlst by the close Nv the third day
an ominus change in their demeanor
toward me.
''Is the bosses goin to bid ngin ?"
they asked one Nv another.
II rather think not" wuz the an
ser. The fact is, all that they he'd
wuz invested in them mills, and that
is gone. They hain't got nothin to
bid with"
The merry hell you say. Then
where are you going to git eny en-
.,loyment 2"
That staggered EN-. They loafed
about ia q listlis sort Nv way, fer a
dav or tuo hu; thou didnit an,knSa