United labor bulletin., 1909-10-29

firm and to the workman. But l CONFESS
that | went away from that photograph
with a funny feeling l am sure that
some of the strikes engaged in in this
shop during the past 65 years were JUS
tifiable-as strikes go, of course. Strlh
ing is bad business at best, but once III
while a strike seems necessary. won
dered if that was really the best thlhs
that could be said about workingmah.
Never striker! Well, I'm not looking
for trouble, but am more anxious ABOUT
some other things in connection WIN
nv reputation as an American artlsdh
than that / never went out on strike!
I'm wondering what kind OF cro"u
we'd be if we all had the same klnd Oh d
record | wonder, too, how the old man
would classify Moses, the strike leader
of that bunch of two million brlcknak-
ers who walked out because Pharaoh
didn't do the square thing? of course
he couldn't frame Moses's photograph
and write that epitaph beneath 1t, but
guess that Moses wouldn't care very
much about that. He did accomplish
some other things which probably over
balance the crime of creating labor
fuss down in Egypt. But then Moses
never worked for the old man, SO II
pretty hard to tell what might have nap
pened on either side.
There's one thing about the super
that we admire hugely. He never makes
splurge about social welfare work.
He tries to be decent to the men, dong
the souare thing about keeping the shop
clean and paying fair wages-at least as
fair as the trade seems to permit. Ihere
probably isn't a man in the shop VINO
feels that he is getting all that is COM
ing to him. But the Super hasn't lhtro-
duced any kindergartens or day nurs'
cries. and such like, so that the firm may
exploit the fact that they are running
an ideal" shop-as good business
proposition That sort of thing may De
good advertisement so far as the pub
lie is concerned, but our boys would re-
sent anything that seemed in the least
like paternalism. Somehow, thats the
temper of the American workingman he
hates like the mischief to feel that any
body owns him or is trying to baby him.
Rev Charles Stelzle, in Letters FROM
a Workingman."
WHERE PARENTS MAKE MISTAKES
ct Your Children fill the Groove Mature
Intended Them to Fil-How Boys Who
Became Famous Men Wandered from
the Paths Chosen for Them.
Emerson, speaking of the narrow sci
ishness of father which leads him tc
a. reproduction of himself in his son
saws: you are trying to make that bo!
another you; one is enough
Bach used to copy whole books o
music by moonlight when his parents
meanly denied him a candle to d1scour
age him in his musical ambitions.
Handel the famous composer, whose
father was physician, was intended 1o'
the procession of the law, and the fathel
did all he could to discourage the 9oy'
fondness for music, but he got an Ole
spinet and practiced on it secretly IN
hay loft; he produced an opera before NJ
was Is.
Arkwright was bred to the trade OF
barber. but when about thirty-five year!
of age he gave himself up exclusively tt
the subject of inventions for spinnint
cotton, and in his cunning devices bless
ed humanity and did the drugery of Eng
lands poor.
Michael Angelo, whose parents PUNISH
, ed him for covering the walls VIII
sketches, declared he was no son
theirs should he become an artist, speh
whole nights copying drawings he dare'
not bring home. and the artistic hr'
burning in his breast would not let MN
rest until he had immortalized himsel
, in the architecture of St Peters IL
, Rome. in the marble of his Moses in th'
Vatican gallery and on the walls of th
Sistine chapel.
The father of John Adams was deter
mined to make a shoemaker out OF nj
boy. and one day he gave him pair o
uppers to cut out John followed TN
pattern exactly, three cornered hole an
all by which it had hung on the wall
failure as a shoemaker, but he becam
p George Washington's successor as pres
5 dent of the United States.
e Daniel Websters father meant him 10