The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-16

4 A0@E[1 AAG&& r. cars ia H.
air an give three cheers rr Capi.aI
They wurruked till o. age crept on
thin an thin retired TO live on tn
wish bones an kind wurruds they had
accumulated.
Nowadays It's far dIrrenI. Tn.
unions has destroyed ali individtooI
effort. e be tear tn hours ~ IN
misguided wurrukin' man has been cut
down Till now 10 n split sieond
watch to time him Is he GOES through
tn days wurruk- I have a xintlema,
plasthrer frind who tells me he hasn't
put In a full day in a year. He goes TO
his desk iSry mornin at tin an sthrikes
punchooly ar iliven- TIL n iv IN
wurrukn' men mus be redhressed..
says he. Are We INTERESTED In thims'
says i. 'Ye niver looked betiher In
ye'er lire.' saysI. 4 niver felt oetther.'
he says. It's IN out-iv dure life he
says. L havn't missed a baseball game
this summer he says. But he says.
Il need exercise. / wish labor day wui
come around tn boys has choose me
TO carry a life size model iv tn Masonic
Temple in tn parade he says.
If I was a wurrukin' man I'D sigh
rr tn good oil days whin Labor an
Capital was frinds. Those who lived
through him did. In thin times tn
arrystocracy Nv labor was IN ia-ads
who r-run tn railroad ~lnjines. They
were a PROUD race. II was a boast To
have wan Nv him In a <am1y. They
river sthruck. Twas again their rules.
They conferred with Capital. Capita
used 10 weep over thin. Ivry waast
In a while a railroad .prisidint wud
grow red in tn face an burst into song
about thin They were n body that
tn nation might well be proud ~. IL
he a a son who asked fr no betther
fate. he wud ask fr no better fate fr
him thin TO be a Brotherhood iv Locy-
motive Engineers. Ivrybody looked up 10
thin an they looked dow on svry body
but mostly on tn bricklayers. TIL brick
layers We're niver tn bulwarks iv tn
constichoochion. They niver conferred
with Capital. TIL polls always arrived
JUS as tn conference was b~eginnin'.
Their MOTTO was a long life an a merry
wan; a brick in tn hand is worth "
on tn wall. They sthruck ivry time
they thought Nv IL. They shruck on tn
slightest p~rovocation n whin rAye
weren't provoked at all. IL a band whit
by, they climbed down tn Ladders an.
ollowe IL, carryin' banners with tn
wurruds: Give us bread or we starve.'
an walked till they were almost hum
CRY. Ivry Saturdah night, they neld a
dance to protest against their wrongs.
In tn summer time. tn walls ~ IN y
pressed bricklayers whit VI firm count
-SoS BsS@tN AN~s
! with anybody. Tn union win out n
wan man because they was a rumor
that tn superintendent ~ tn rollin'
mills was not nice TO his wife. Wansr
they sthruck because Poland was not
free.
What was tn raysult? Their unrai-
soning demands fin'lly enraged Capital.
Today we can go into a bricklayer's
house an niver see a capitalist but tn
bricklayer himsilf. Forty years ago n
bricklayer was certain iy tWiive hours
a convicted burglar. Today he has prac-
| tically nawthin TO do an wont do that.
! They ar-re out iv wurruk nearly all tn
time an at tn sea shore. Just as ofte..
| as yet read Newport colony filing up
We read, 'Brik-layers sthrike again
Ye very sildom see a bricklayer nova
days in tn city. They live mostly IN tn
country an on'y come into town TO be
bribed TO &c 10 wurruk. Il wud pay
, amy man who is buildin' a house 10
sind thin what money he has DE mai
an go live in a tent.
An all this time. how about tn ar
r~ystockracy iv labor, tn knights iy tn
throttle? Have they beer deprived 4.
annv hours iv labor? ON tn contnry,
they have steadily Increased ontil today
there Is not a knight iv tn throttle
who hasn't more hours iv wurruk in a
day thin he can use in a week. In IN.
Gill Hioi iiu WIFI ne taxes MS i'm
horse out iv tn stall, he meets tn on
forchnit. misguided bricklayer comm
home in a cab firm a sthrike meetin.
Hardly a year passes that ne can't
say 10 his wife: Mother. " nad an
increase. In wages?' No, In hours.
It's tn oil story Nv tn ant an tn grass
hopper-th ant that We can step on an
tn g~rasshopper We can't catch.
We'll. it's too bad that tn goolden
l da VIC has ma gGo6 IfnnTczv "a nf3as stlfr
pats Labor on tn back but on'y with
an axe. Labor rayfuses TO be threated
as a frind. 1t wants to be threated as
an inimy. 1t thinks 1t gets more that
way. They ar-re still a happy family
but it's more like an English family.
They don't speak. What do / think w
il all? All, sure, / don't know. l be-
long to tn onforchnit middle class. I
wurruk hard an 1 have 10 money.
They come in here undher me hospital
roof an / furnish thin with cards.
checks, Refreshments an money. Let's
play without a limit says Labor. Its
Dooleys money Go as far as ye like
with Dooley's money says Capital.
'Whas have ye got?' I've got a
straight TO Roosevelt says Labor.
I've got ye beat. says Capital. Tts
got a Supreme Coort full on injunc-
tons Manetime I've pawned me watch
10 pay fr tn game an i have to go
TO tn joolry store on tn corner to buy
a pound iy beef or a scuttle ~ coal.
No wan liver sthrikes in sympathy with
me-"
They ought TO get together" said
| Mr.. Hennessy.
How cud they get amy closer to-
gether hin their prisint clinch?' asked
Mr.. Dooley. They're so close together
now that those hat ARE between thin
ar-re crushed to death"