The Labor enquirer., 1885-12-05
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aAnd why to rob me2"
"Are you not a stockholder Of Mont
son? You do nothing. You live from
the work of others. Believe me, if the
Social Revolution was to triumph, it
would compel you to return your fortune
as stolen money"
"Stolen money, my fortune! Did not
my great grandfather work hard for the
first sum put in the miner Have we
not all the risks of the enterprise? Do
I make bad use of my incomeW
Madame Hennebean, alarmed at see
ing the mother and daughter also filled
with fear. hastened to interfere, saying
paul was only joking" '.'
"Be quiet for Gods sake! Here are
the gendarmes." ~
They could not run away, they had
not even voted either for the adhesion
or the continuation of the strike. Every
one tried to speak at once. Finally the
president thought of plan to-" vote BY
acclamatlon. Arms were raised. the
delegates hastily declared they would
adhere in the name of ftheir absent com.
rades. And it was thus that the 10000
coal men of Montson became members
of the International. AE T e"
& CATHERINE AS 4 "scAB" MINER.
At Jean. Bart, Catherine. for an hour
had been pushing her car and she was
so covered with perspiration that she
stopped for moment to wipe her face
At the old work was gallery, very deep
in which ten years before an explosion
offire damp had set fire to the VEIN
Deprived of air the fire ought to have
gone out: but a draft somewhere kept
it alive, heating up the wall like the
bricks of an oven.
After two trips, Catherine again be-
came suffocated. What was the matter
with her that day She never felt such
giving way in her bones. They
breathed all sorts of gas which came ou
of the coal with a little sound like the
bubbling of spring. She knew it well
that bad air, the air of death the miners
called it, Her ears were ringing ant
her head was az though on fire. Surely
it was the heat that was making he
sick. Then she concluded to remove
her chemise, for even that was torture
as the least wrinkle in 1t cut and burned
her, so she united the string and let th'
last article of clothing drop. She was
in such agony that she would have tori
her very skin off if she had been able
Then, entirely nude, she went On will
her terrible labor. Then in the shadow
everything commenced to 60 around
her heart almost stopped beating, and
overcome, she fell over on the ground
to die in that air of asphyxy,
"A rumbling noise was heard. The
grew uneasy. What now was this an
other accident2 Miners passed then
every second and none knew what wa
the matter
Suddenly an overseer passed them
CRYING: "The cables are cut, the cable
! ---t-,'. WIZ LID ihey CUT the cables
and who had cut them when the mel
we're at the bottom2 That was mon
strous But the voice of another over
seer broke out. The Monston striker
had cut the cables!
ITO the ladders to the laddersw
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Then Catherine slipped. Only fv
ladders remained to climb they ha
taken nearly an hour for the ascent
She never knew how she arrived, thougl
she was earned on some ones shoulders
Suddenly she found herself in the daz
zling sunlight, in the midst of a howlinI
mob who hooted at her.
Bread J bread bread W
On arriving at CASTOR Marie, with
body of $500 men, they broke every
thing around them. In less than
quarter of an hour the fires we're de
stroyed, the boilers were emf tied, ant
the buildings over-run and devastated
But it was especially the engine the,
~attacked. Then they turned back ant
the order ran:
40 Monston ! to the directors Bread
bread bread n
Under this shower of stones the littl'
troup was disappearing. Fortunately
nearly all struck too high; the wall wa
shattered by them. What was to be
done? The idea of turning back flushed
the captains pale face for a moment
but it was no longer possible; they
would be cut to pieces by the slightest
movement. A brick had just struck tht
visor of his kept drops of blood rar
from his forehead. Several of his mel
were already wounded. We're they t.
remain ia iiff-tshis position any longer
Twice the captain was on the point o
ordering them to fire. Anguish chokec
him; the internal combat of a few sec
onds was confusing his ideas of duty