The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
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BY ADVERSELY
Carbon County Strikers Of the
Happy-go-Lucky Sort.
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EAT, DRINK AND ARE MERRY
YET EVICTION MAY COME ON
THE MORROW.
EAT. DRINK AND ARE MERR'
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Scoheld, Dec. 3.-Joy is omnipresent;
condition, environment do not matter
If you do not believe il, come to Car
bon county.
Here. where a great industrial war
IS being waged; where armed men pa
trol the streets and the roads by day
and by night where the very air is
a-quiver with dread. joy finds home
alike IN the cabin of the coal miner
and the private car Of a plutocrat.
ON the side of a hill that is almost
straight up and down is a rough board
shanty, typical Of many I'm this vicin-
NY Lurid red paint ad0rns the mar
gin Of the windows and doors. The re-
1nainder or the dwelling is naked and
untouched save by the elements. Fur
niture is not plentiful, consisting main
~ OF a long, narrow table, two benches
and single chair. All are guiltless
or paint or varnish. This describes the
front room. There are two other
apartments that serve as sleeping
quarters for four Italian coal miners.
For them this place is home Here
Shey eat and sleep and pass their idle
hours. The cabin has been built on a
clubbing arrangement, wherein all four
SHARED the expense. The coal company
owns the ground whereon it perches
ulzzily, and has heretofore charged a
ground rental from the owners Of the
dwelling.
Warmed to Vacate.
Monday last the quartet VINO occupv
this place were visited by three men.
Two carried rifles: the third carried a
pocketful Of legal-looking documents.
ON OF these papers ne served on the
men IN the cabin. 1t notified them to
Nacate the ground on which their home
stands. The Italians are strikers.
Fifteen minutes after the process
server and his armed satellites had de-
parted a newspaper man climbed to
the cabin. expecting, perhaps. to find
Erlei, despair or anger dominating the
scene. But no. cheerful voices. in the
+ soft. musical tones OF the Latins. greet
ed the visitor and bade him occupy the
only chair
At the benches sat four swarthy sons
81 King NictOr's realm. obviously ex-
1racting great pleasure and content
from the manipulation Of a greasy pack
OF cards.
Had they been notified to get out"2
Yes; oh. yes. They had paper and
they understood what it meant.
Were they s1rry2
Br-r-r-r' Why should they be
sorry? And this is what they said.
Notice all right: strike all right: no
work, very good. Gotta big barrel
wine; gotta much meat. bigga blankets
plenty; gotta coal maka fire, baka man
come every day. Play cards. nave good
time .getta sooda rest. Byauby go to
Broad smiles, black eyes STIMULATING
With good humoT ard eloquent gestures
made this rapid-fre summary of the
situation extremely droll. Care had
Ialied TO find a resting place i'm that
household. Could the philosophy Of
temporary existence be better exem-
Less Bread to Bake.
A kitchen, equipped with utilitarian
theory Only. lis visible when YOU enter
TIE front or back door it would be diff
hCult 20 say which. that admits you to
certain Finnish boarding house. star
tltngly clean is the apartment and ev-
erything i'm it, Neatness ana order re
almost painfully evident
When The Herald mar entered. a
hare-armed Venus who had been knead-
ing dough I'm "A dishpan. giggled a well
come and talked. With a battery of
wonderful blue eyes turned on the
scribe, this fair daughter Of northern
EuroTe told why she was not unhappy
IN spite Of the strike, I'm spite of posi-
ole hardship. The inimitable dialect
must be translated.
Most Of the boys have left the
house. she conhdes, ION account of the
strike there isn't much to do. now:
lots easier than il used TO be Yes. IA
Their is losing money. a great deal of
money, and we can't have some things
that we need. But" with "a merry
laugh. we've saved something. and
isn't this great weather? Everything
frozen up and the sun shining every
y oay-usually We have lots Of snow
q bout now"
And the strike-what viii its effect
he ON your family?"
"Oh. the strike don't think about
50. much. 7 leave that for the men.
There isn't so much baking to do now"
And dimpled hands are again buried
in dough. And diligent effort fails TO
extract another word on strikes. evic-
lions or troubles of any sort.
No Thought of the Morrow.
So JOY viii have her reign. even in
stricken Carbon county. These cases
are typical Among the mass Of these
strikers and their feminine folk there
S. a disposition to take life easy. TO eat.
drink and be merry. tho tomorrow they
ere cvicted or the flour bin is empty
Good humOr good fellowship. pleas
ure in the simple good things that come
TO their hands. these are characters
tics that cannot be entirely obscured by
the OminOUs presence OF rife and bay-
onet the twelve strike grievances or
notices OF eviction.