The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-05-23

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menu was not elaborate. Meat. sand
witches and pie constituted each meal
They had scarcely begun their meal
when one pushed his foot aside and |
said: y ~.
: 1--WE lost my appetite, I've lost my
job. The boss has given me the SACK
Whats the joke" asked the other two
men.
1--WE lost my job .-..:..,
II can't believe it," exclaimed one Of
the others, seeing that the first was in
earnest. why, thought you were
fixture around here. What's the
troble?"
The workman was man of large
intelligence. He was married with a
large family to support. Necessity
drove him and his wife to trim house
figure. Meats being high in price, GER
calls had taken their place on his table.
Roast beef and steaks were seldom pre-
pared in his home.
1.-THE boss said to me this morning"
replied the workman, in answer to
their questions, that the new man.
ager' was a. man who believed in the
young man theory. Said he intended
to have only young men about; said he
has going to get rid of all the old fogies
who couldn't get around lively. So the
the boss said I'd have to look out tor
another Job after next Saturday
>'"W1ly, how old are you?" asked one
of them.
"Juet 49," said the workman.
Nov III tell you something, inter-
upted the third, WHO had been silent.
1.-THE trouble with you is that you have
let yourself run down. This living on
bread and cakes and pie don't go. If
you have to do hard work you require
q coed dfnue1 Of meat at least once a
day, or you will get played out sooner
or later. I've been in the English army.
! We were g. served pound Of meat a
| day. They know that ment can't march
| and fight except on meat diet. You
can't work except on one"
Don't you think that if I had eaten
hot meat dinner every day instead of
grubbing it rd be on the firing line to-
day?' said the workman.
''That's just It," said the speaker.
"Why, in the American army they feed
the men pound and q half of meat a
day. was stationed In Canada for a
time. Half the men In the army there
are Roman Catholics. but they eat their
! meat Friday, just the same as the Pro-
testants. They have a special dispen-
| sation from the church allowing them
to do 1t. We have to, do harder work
here in the shops. We need just the
| same sort Of food
| "what's the row." asked another
| workingman passing the group on a
packing box.
| "Harrys got the sack" explained one.
land it looks as If it was because he
had not eaten enough meat"
| II guess there isn't any doubt about
that" said the man sitting beside them.
T have found that I have to eat cer-
tain amount Of meat every day if
want to keep up my strength. This
thing of trying to get along on half food
won't do. It's the quick lunch we have
| to eat as much as anything that plays
us out.
II have worked in an English shop
where they. did things. different. It was
a ship yard \. There was a lar &c room
called the recreation room. When we
went to work In the morning we hand
ed our dinner pals to fellow who gave
us a check for them. At noon time we
found the food all warmed and ready to
be eaten. Then we had tables and
could eat like folks. We had fifty min
utes for lunch too-not the thirty min
utes rush we have here. The extra
twenty minutes gave us time to get set
tied a, little before we started at work
again.
Nov, here I eat this thirty minute
cold lunch and I am played out by
half past five o'slock in the afternoon.
I nearly always have to stop in a sa-
loon on the way home to get something
to brace me up. I know that the ut1-
substantial meals we eat force us to
take stimulants.
Harry, here, has been eating this
cold lunch like the rest Of US. Then he
has been going home and having a meal
of vegetables handed out to him there
instead of getting meat. It's been less
expensive for the present, but it's more
expensive in the long run. Why, the
result Is that at 43 he's an old man in
the opinion of the new manager: He
ought to have thirty years of good work
in him yet. He onght to be one of the