The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-20

Below we copy a pathetic news item, telegraphed to the papers from New York
 last Saturday:
 When the employees of the Hecker flour mills. Cherry and Pike Strets, struck on May MichaelDorsch refused to join them holding that they were in the wrong and that he had wife and some small chill dren to support He was called 'scab" by
 the striking miliers, but he refused to desert his position.
 The strikers made things so uncom- fortable for Dorsch while on his way to
 and from the mills that he finally decided to quit work
 and Onderdonk Avenues, Brooklyn, with heavy heart. He wept as though his heart would break as he told his wife how he had been compelled by his union to give up his position. He worried day and night, as no news came that the strikers had gone back to work. He had been assured at the be- ginning of the strike that 1t would last only few days. What troubled Dorssh
 most was that he feared he would lose
 the responsible position he had worked himself up to.
 He went to the mills and an official of
 gone on strike would not be employed again. and advised him to seek another position.
 He went back to his home and said to
 
 Katie, the worst has happened.
 cannot get back my job. even if the strike
 should end" 2 He went to his bedroom and wept aloud. Then he went out and bought four ounces of carbolic acid. He went home and said to his wife:
 T think 1t is about time to end this whole trouble. I am sick and tired of | this strike business. A man who is will | ing to work and satisfied with the wages | he is receiving is not allowed to work be- cause some other men are dissatisfied. So will end my troubles | Before his wife could dash 1t from his I hand Dorsch drained the bottle of poison | and fell unconscious. His wifes cries | were heard by other tenants, who sent | call for an ambulance. Dr. Pobe. of
 the German Hospital, responded. but | Dorsch had died while the surgeon worked over him. Mrs. Dorsch became hys- | terival and Dr. Pobe had to turn his at- | tention to her.
 | This is somewhat lengthy. but it is inter-
 estlng. The men who bounded this man
 to his death are as guilty as was Cain | when he slew Abel. They deserve to bear
 the mark of Cain on their foreheads. for ! while they did not actually kill the poor
 man with a club they are directly respon- sibe for his death. His sole offence was
 that he wanted to support himself and family by honest labor. He thought strike was wrong and unjustifiable. He
 was driven by threats of violence to quit
 work and after he had quit he could get
 nothing to do. The employers refused, as they had a perfect right to do, to
 employ any of the strikers and this man,
 who was forced by the others to give up job with which he was satisfied, took
 the final plunge into the unknown rather
 than face want and privation and suf-
 fering wife and children.
 Perhaps this man was weak. We have
 been taught to believe that no amount of
 toll and hardship and privation will justify a man in taking that life which
 God alone can give He might have
 found work in some other place, or at some other business, to ward off starva- tion from his loved ones, but he lacked
 the nerve. As Tom Hood says of an un- fortunate woman: