The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-06-11

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June MAX
Hayes; the Cleveland labor writer, tells
a good story this week in his paper,
the Cleveland Citizen:
II did the best could said Charles
Wright to Judge Whallon in Police
court yesterday. He was charged with
deserving his wife and children, nine of
them minors and all living at home.
The man, gaunt, and careworn,
stretched out his long arms and looked
appealingly at the judge as he told his
story. & ~
II, .did the best I could" he contin-
ued II work for the Parry Manufact-
;urign Company. I work hard and do
all ! can get: to do, but don't make
muCh, - ~ II: '.<..s ~ - *
q. =..atss inetimes;:T or Sion pay
wan aftensL pa ,s1n1 he per ID have
tot $$5Aors$ LETT: IS ut. times are: better
now and I hav more5=$WNo now than
L had last winter: Then I often had but
So left after the Helper was paid and
there have been pay days when there
was only $3.50 in my envelope. I do
piece work and sometimes there is lit
tie to be had:''
Wright and his wife quarreled at
Easter and he left home. She said he
spent his earnings at saloons, but he
denied it.
There isn't much left to spend for
drink after feeding an dclothing thir-
teen persons ON such wages he said.
Last winter walked all the way from
our home in Haughville to the factory.
walked mack every day too It was
cold and I was tired, but I couldn't
afford to. spend money for car fare.
The above is from an Indianapolis
daily, which adds that Wright was al
lowed to go under a suspended SEN
tence. It is hardly necessary to moro1-
ize here.
The man worked, or rather shaved,
for Parry, the pompous and loud
mouthed chief of the union-smashing
brigade. He averaged probably a dol
lar a day upon which to support a
large family. Probably he had no right
to have a family, but he has one, and
he is forced to provide for the wife and
children-and on a dollar a. day.
No one will dispute the fact that
there isn't much left to spend for
drink after feeding and clothing thir-
teen persons on such wages" On the
contrary, everybody, except Parry
tie, will wonder how. Charles Wright
managed to manipulate his finances SO
judiciously as to prevent him from go
ing stark mad, jumping in the river or
getting blind drunk every time he
wrung his few dollars of wages from
the tender-hearted Parry:
Mr.. Parry, is of coursee; a <"success-
full business man." If all his employees
are like Wright, Parry must have made
heaps Of money. He skins his workers
to a finish, care willing: to admit,
and that is all the more reason why he
is the beau, idle Of all. union haters. No
doubt If he had Mexican. poems or Chi
MS coolies to do his work: for SO cents
a. day, he would. become ,san the more
rabid for: an open shop, Fpauper: wages,
degredation, drunkenness; insanity and
crime. 49, r: &=s: -
And what advantage iss~it,,:s: to-, waste
time and energy in. poitning g. out : the
horror and misery of low wages to
Parryized xperverts? None Their brains
have become petrified; their hearts are
advamant:: The greed for gold is their
god. e%M< ~ :. = Z - - - =: - =:
49, -Aat.f .
" All arguments; all reasoning; with
such industrial: cannibals,:is q waste Of
words. They have declared war, they
have begun their campa1gnof ,destruc-
ton. Well they must expect to receive
the same treatment. :: ,$ il = B ~ zs
The working class is meek and pa
tient but itzhas the power to crush SUCH
1nhnman tyrants as Parry5if IT. would
only become conscious Of: the rights OF
it's class, and learn that might: makes
right s%,, s. st.xz5
{ We hope tos:see+ the: time when. the
mighty mass Of workers Will be united
thoroughly iii all the or anizat ions q
their trade and at the ballot box when
labor will he the power ia The entire
lend, and when such q heart less exploit-
Sers as thesP Parry Will meet JustSret-
sributi ion losi1l 81 hf1uences that
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