Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-01-24
A SQUEAkING RAT.
WEALTHY SPECTATORS CRY
FOR MERCY.
They Brag Still They Are Not Happy.
Four SVueaks AnSWercd-Jns.
tice Demands u Labor
Sleeps Not On to
Victory.

As is known to our readers, Or
ganizcd Labor is putting the rat
NrW> through Il course Of sprouts for
the unjust reduction of the price Of
composition on that waning lumi-
mary by the wealthy men who own
the sheet. Twas but repetition Of
the oft-practlccd scheme to rob the
laborer of his reward. While the
NjoU and Register We're paying forty
cents per Thousand ems for night
work, the wealthy nabobs of the
NcWS enforced reduction of five
cents per thousand ems, and filled
the places of the union men (who,
in obedience to their pledge Of honor
left the ot1irc) with rats-crcaturcs
without principle or proper mtelIi-
gcncr, miserable and degraded tools
of ayarIcious capitalists, scorned aud
loathrd bv honest workmen. The
bosses, with the bold ctrrontery Of
their kind, would listen to no argu-
mcnt, but stltbbornly ly asserted their
"right y to conduct their business
as they saw fit. This they have done
for the past fifteen months with in
different success to the best of our
knowledge, but, if we may take the
word Of their mouthpleces, witt
very satisfactory results to the Morn
ING News Company. so, then, the
nabobs conducted their little specu-
lation to their entire satisfaction,
and the printers and their friends
began to let the AearS severely alone;
in other words, it was boycotted.
LABOR SLEEPS NOT.
Time flew swiftly on, and in it's
flight brought new cares and new
joys to the people of this city and
vicinity. The wealthy men who
owned the NewS found the paper
sinking into oblivion, and their
agents began to drum up trade, and
incidentally cndeayorcd to create
the opinion among the honest sons
Of toll that the difficulty with the
printers was all settled, and actually
succeeded in gaining a little of their
lost prestige But Organized Labor
slept not. The local assemblies Of
the Noble Order of Knights of La
bor, who recognize the fact that IAN
injury to one is the concern Of all, :"
gave public notice to their friends
that the Npms was still under the
ban Of honest Labor, and requested
"a continuance Of the boycott. The
brotherIy sympathy Of the workmen
was aroused afresh, and they busted
themselves to acquaint their friends,
the merchants, with the danger that
threatened their business interests,
should their advertisements be found
in the Objectionable sheet, and many
Of them needed the friendly warn
ing. 1t was not the intention of the
workers to injurc their friends who
ignorantly allowed themselves to be
COOLED into advertising in the col
umns Of the dlsgraced newspaper
THE RATS SQUEAK.
For some reason or other the very
wealthy and speculative owners Of
the Ner>, through their hired ser
wants, sought ont one Of the com
mlttees who were appointed to hear
the squeaks and walls Of the con-
demned, and yicariously squcaked to
this effect
Sgueak l.-For every subscriber
lost We have gained two.
.Hgueok You ought to admit
the men in our employ into the
Union, if We pay them the price.
S9Hp0E 3.-lou should not require
us to pay for the boycott.
Ng"eak Why can't YOU leave
this to arbitration?
To which Organized Labor;
1nsweriug .rqpeak l.-Then why
do YOU squeak;