The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-14

present employees?
"They are not so good as they were.
We could do it gradually, but it would
be some time before We were in full
force again.
THAT would mean the refusal of new
orders, and perhaps the cancelling of
many now on hand"
Undoubtedly That is the cost of
war. We must face it if we fight. We
might be crippled for six months to
come"
THAT is very serious Is no COM
/ promise possible? Should you not confer
with Marsten and find out what he
wants?"
IT know what he wants"
sible?''
Frankly. I do"
Have you the same objection to
meeting Marsten that you had to meet
ing Gibbons?"
las matter of principle I object to
discussing our business with any out
slider. Marsten has never raised that
point. When it was necessary to con-
fer with me he always sent a deputa-
ton of our own men. He is much
more dangerous opponent than Glib
bons was
Would you be willing, then. in the
interests of peace, to arrange con-
ference with Marsten, talk the matter
over and come to an understanding, if
that be possible?'
Yes. 1 will send for him at once:
but I don't think it will be of the
slightest use, and it forms a bad prece-
dent"
1t was unanimously agreed that such
an action on StrawelPs part would
strengthen his hands, and that the
fight, if it proved inevitable, could be
gone into with greater spirit when all
knew that everything possible had been
done to avoid hostilities.
Sartwell invited Marsten to meet him
at his office at o'clock in the evening.
When the young man entered his first
words were:
You told me / was not to set foot
in this office unless 1 was ordered to
do so; 1 must apologize, therefore, for
coming on mere invitation"
'Ah, you haven't forgotten that yeti"
said Sartwell with a laugh. But you
do forget apparently that you were
here on invitation before-during the
strike, you know"
Yes, so 1 was
Now, Marsten, to begin with, have
you any personal i'll feeling against
me for your SUMMARY dismissal%'
Not the slightest. I should probably
have acted as you did under the same
circumstances.
1T is generous of you to say that,
but 1 doubt if you would. However.
rot attempting to excuse myself at all,
1 may say that the event did not quite
turn out as I expected. 1 hoped that
you would call on me, and that re
would-well, arrange an armistce, as
it were"
II thought you knew me better than
that"
II didn't. you see. But let the dead
past bury it's dead. Let us give our
attention to the present and to the
future, and 1 shall begin by asking if
you have any suspicion that you are a
fool?"
"A most diplomatic and soothing,-be-
ginning, Mr.. Sartwell. However, L sup
pose we are all more or less tinged with
folly so we won't quarrel about terms;
but we seem to see the defects of~others
rather clearer than we Sc our own.
That is undoubtedly true. 1t strikes
me, then, that you are wasting your
life, and would like to convince you
of that before it is too late"
''Yes?''
yes I want an assistant manager.
He must be man of ability and a man
1 can trust. 1 am getting on in years
and will soon stand aside. Idy assist
ant, if he has the right stuff in him.
will take my place, and the future will
belong to him. 1 offer you the posi-
ton"
Il cannot accept it,
"Why?"
Because 7 have devoted my life to
the men"
But you will have an opportunity
of doing more for the men in that po-
sition than you can possibly do for
them in your present office, where they
grudgingly pay you barely enough TO
keep BODY and soul together.
Il don't mean the men in these
works, but all workingmen every
where
Rather a large order, Marsten.'
Il know it is, but L feel equal to fill
ing it,
It don't suppose you imagine I make
you this offer because 1 am afraid of
you as secretary of the union"
''Oh, no. am well aware that you
want to avoid a fight, and l know you
are afraid of nothing except that your
directors will not back you through to
a finish.''
do you imagine that your own
hackers are as adamant?
mo. My weakness is Gibbons and his
gang Yours is the board of directors.
One neutralizes the other, so it will be
an interesting fight"
Make no mistake, my boy; capl-
talist viii back his man ten times as
long as a worker will his
Il haven't your intense admiration
for the capitalist. Mr.. Hope promised
me, almost with tears in his eyes, to
look after my future when he found l
was working to settle the other strike
which so terrorized him. L and my
friends succeeded in breaking I'D the
strike, yet you discharged me a week
after, and I doubt if Mr.. Hope ever
gave thought to his promise from
that day to this. Your capitalist is
VIGOROUSLY timid and thoroughly sell
fish. The worlingman has his faults,
of course. and he is himself the great
est sufferer from them; but in gener-
osity he is miles ahead of any CAPT
talist that ever lived"
Then you are determined to fight,
Marsten?"
"Oh, no. Not if you give in
How often shall we have to give
in?"
Until such time as the comDensa-
ton given to the workers is at least
equal to the amount taken out by the
so-called proprietors of the business"
''Ah, that is Utopian, which is SIM
ply another word for nonsense. Now,
why not be perfectly frank and say
you are resolved to fiSht us?"
(To be COntinued.)
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