The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

aryr' "Anarchistf' Wolf in sheep's lethins'-accordina to their several
 vocabularies-the last being the con. tributien of MT, Hector McKill.
 1T have nothing to do with incen- diaries" said Vie firmly, "but try to
 understand cause and effeetI endeaver to earn the wages you pay me, and to find out right and wreng."
 1T thought you expressed yourself as willing to make yourself responsible
 for the conduct of the menr sneerpd James Kahn,
 Tn the pits, yes" said Vic, stead- fly, and if their just representations
 are attended to I have then no fear, Besides, I know how the government
 inspection Is slurred over here, know
 to whom the business was committed, l know how the matter was arranged" !" Then you know more than I do Mr. Morris" said Jacob Romer, flor this is the first I ever heard of any arrange
 ment, Let me hear all you know It was now the turn Of the three al {.
 lies to move uneasily,
 When Job Henderson wrote out htz resignation he did 1t painfury-for un- like inc, who at a pinch can always wield a pick, he was a man with "a
 large family. 1t cost hlm something
 to dc right, But he would not cons
 
 One of your managers sitting there
 laughed, and saids Risk to the lives
 of men-well Job Henderson, don't wa pay them for taking that risk7 Don't they know the bargain as we'll as weYi "I agree with that" said Jacob l Remer. T have ne sympathy with | can't"
 And at this the rripllee of Oppression smiled with recovered spirits. With cant, mol I, au little." Vic l Morris continued: "but with your new | engineer began the cutting down of the 1 working expenses. the filling up of the l existing exits with steampipes, so that l no man could go up or down--no, not for fifty fathoms-and all that the | profits might be increased" And I bog you will tell me-" inter- | rupted Jacob Romer, for what other purpose pay you salary, than that l you should have my interest at heart and increase my profits? Do you ex- l peot that these Idle pitmsn would do as much of their own aoeord7" "sir," said Vic Morris, "I think that your balance- eet since my arrival I will best prove. that you have no cause | to complain of tho fidelity of my l services. I have worked well for you. l The men also-esp eoially in No. ? pit. | And they deserve to have their exits
 safe and clear in case of danger" MT. Grindling." said the owner of the Incubus pits. "what have you to | say, to this?"
 That 1t is all sultry nonsensep' quoth the rotund manager of the Dock. l This engineer man Is no better than | q miners agent. His business (and ours) is to get as much work out of | the men as possible. The mems bus | mess Is to get as much out of us as 1 possible--and do as little for it. MT. tyf- 1.5I, lN l fence. But that's not my idea of loy- alty to ones eus.>1oyer"
 Nor mine either" groaned the senior l manager, MT. Hector McKill; "he that is not for us Is against us-so 1t Is writtenr'
 q have heard of the devils quoting l Scripture to suit his purpose before now" said Vic, sharply: "if you wish | me to tell you what l think l will do | it. I don't believe in men going first | to prayer meetings and then home | again to arrange for cutting wages 10 | per cent all round when profits are 33 per cent over alll
 "Confine yourself to the matter in | hand, Mir. Morris, and you will do well | for yourself" said MT. Romer, his grim | face a shade grayer and grfmmer than usual. And be good enough to remem- | Der that outside that window there is thirty thousand pounds worth of prop | erty destroyed-tn all probability by l the men whose case you are pleading | so eloquently"
 No, sir; not by them." said Vic earnestly "but perhaps by the second class men you have brought to Kirk l town by the second-clas wages you l are paying. By men who have not l that respect for tn emselves which oily | comes of being respected by their em- l ployer."
 The owner of thirty blocks of min