The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-27
AS THINGS co IN MANILA.
TaiIOrs Went on Strike Because They
Had Too Much Money.

From Freedom, of Manila.
There is a tallors' strike on in this city
that would be a revelation to American
capitalists and labor union promoters.
The tailors of Ernesto Meyers have gone
on a strike, not because they are dissatis-
fed with their wages, but because they
have so much money that they don't care
to work any more.
Mr.. Meyers paid his tailors their week S
wages Saturday night Some, being high
ly skilled workmen, drew as much as 10
or u pesos How could Mr.. Meyers ex-
pect such gentlemen of opulence to toll
longer by the sweat of their brows earn
ing cash at the cost of needle holes
through their fingers, when every man
had as much iron money as he could carry
home in a DULLES?
Surely Mr.. Ernesto Meyers made a
mistake. When the orders, which, accord
ing to the sign in his doorway, he cannot
fin began TO pour in, he should have cut
wages in two as they do It in America,
and he would have had his taiors work
ing faithfully for him, and grubbing des-
perately for their chow to-day.
1t has often been contended in the land
of our birth, that in the tropics they do
tive A week ago Mr.. Meyers had eighty
tellors in his shop, clacking his scissors
and making his wheels hum.
To-day he has nothing to do but brush
the dust from his shelves and swear to
himself in refined German. They were
Filpinos and they couldn't help them
selves, therefore it follows, that they can
49, tI,nE,. gros
is gone.
Why did they quit work? An American
could never understand it. Really the only
plausible solution to the mystery is, that
carrying their money home Saturday
night so exhausted the tailors that they
have not been able TO work since. Any
one who has ever had a peseto changed
on the street car will appreciate the weight
of this suggestion.
This Don Quixotlc strike is not general
1t rs confined to this one establishment,
although Marco e. Co, next door, admit
that they have been having trouble with
their native tailors But they are not af-
fected much, since the majority Of their
workmen are Cinnamon.
A Freedom representative found, upon
inquiry among business men of various
trades. that the habit IS prevalent among
native workmen Of striking off work aft
er pay days. Before being paid they may
be model servants or workmen; afterwards
they either do not show up at ALL or are
not worth having about.
Her Nerve Failed.
A "mohar" from calle Guipit was look
ing for justice and the iron hand OF the
law, Yesterday afternoon. She sought it
on a dead run and lost her wooden clack-
ers in the mud. but she didn't notice that
Down Gale Alix way she found a guard
patroling his beat. With tight grip on
his arm she battered back with a gather
ing crowd of natives and children at their
heels.
When the woman reached her cafe she
seemed to suddenly change her mind for
she let loose of the guard. with a shove.
and tod him he could vamose pronto. He
could obtain no explana ton from the wo-
man, but learned from bystanders that
her espouso had come home drunk. and
that after pounding him nearly 20 death
herself she had gone for the American
police TO have them finish the job. But
when the woman returned her thirst for
revenge was gone, and she was ready to