Nome industrial worker., 1908-03-20

w pins in day, and thus his skill brought him nearly half as much again as the average worker. He was fortunate also in having for customers mostly ladies who had regular allow ance of ''pin money" which gave him business of steady and reliable character. Owning his simple tools. he was quite independent, and as con- tented and happy as the aforemen- tioned ambition would allow.
 Reaching a good old age he went the way of all men and as some would have us believe, following still in this way, was in due time born again into this world of care and trouble. It was very sudden, only little more than 300 years, and it would seem that he was entitled to longer rest, but with human perversity he made no protest until it was too late to do any good. And fate decreed that he should be born Tn New Eagland and almost under the shadow of pin factory but perhaps fate was influ- enced in this by his acquired prede- fiction for pins.
 As soon as he was old enough he was destined to enter the factory because he could not now own the tools and work for himself. He early learned that those who owned the tools did not use them, and those who used the tools did not own them. The tool had grown during these years to great machine, linked into a vast system of production and distribu- tion, made up of machines equally expensive, and all John could do was to apply for job as "hand" to tend machine.
 These pin machines worked with an intelligence that seemed to border on the miraculous and left no need of skill in the operative and no chance for the development of broad capacity, simply all alertness in feed ing machine. John as boy could do it perhaps better than a man, and the way he turned out pins WAS a marvel-as many as seven millions in a single day. When once the machine was ready to run, the latter John could turn out some 200, GOO times as many pins as the former, but while the first pin maker could make a first class living and lay by a little for the time when he could not work and all the time feel like man of some human importance, with some- thing to hope for and aspire to, the later reincarnation was only an ob- scure factory hand whose marvelously improved production yielded him only meager and uncertain exist ence. Every body used pins but no one ever heard of the pin maker. His glory had been given to another-the one who owned the machine but did no make pins-and John was hurried out of sight h the flood of his own production.
 He is getting older now and is not sure whether he can remember his former self, or whether his impress sion comes from reading or hearing something of the early life of the in dustry. But many have testified that they can remember of the builling of the pyramids and it would be an insult to Johns memory to assume it incapable of so slight performance. He hopes, however, that whn he takes his next sleep he may rst in peace until such time as the man shall come into his own as master of the machine and not it's obscurs and unknown slave with no right to start | it and no voice in it's use.
 It never seems to occur to himthat | as wage worker he has any pressing duty ill the matter of bringing oout better conditions for himself and his class. He would, of course, lie a better chance to live, and to get lore out of life, but he plods along 8 if he was just waiting for the impove- ment to come of itself or was eYect- ing someone to bring better con- ditions to him while he sleeps.
 If he can be made to realize that they will only come through hisown intelligent action, joined with that of hls class, then the day of his de liverance will be near. Chicago ally