The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-30

means that he is right up close to the door
of the recruiting Office of the Army of
Unemployed; is actually compelled to en-
list in that army whether he wants to or
not.
There is work in this land of ours for
Just so many bartendcrs, cooks and wait
crs; when the establishments that fur.
reduced III number, it means that lust so
many more OF our crafts are forced on
the market to compete for the remaining
positions, with the natural and only re-
suit OF increased competition; reduced
wages and longer hours One mi ght lust
as well expect printer, who has done
nothing all his life but '.stick type and
who was never called on to lift much over
ten pound galley, to jump out after the
Introduction of the Mcrgenthalcr and seek
for job carrying the hod or something
equally laborious; as to expect men whose
knowlcdgc is confined exclusively to hand
hing and serving food aud drink to at
tempt to follow salcsmanship, or to at
tempt to follow occupations requiring
strength and endurance. Unskillcd labor
is the only kind left for such a man, and
Doctor Stclzlc knows that fact probably
as well as any one; he also knows, or
SHOULD Know, that the Bread Line in his
own city, IS made up principally of I'M
skilled workers; and among them many n
fellow whose skill is confined to sales
manShip; but the '.other cntcrprises,, ca
pleasingly offered by Stclzle for the mem
ners OF our crafts, when they are thrown
out OF employment. did not seemingly.
prove congenial or remuncrativc to them
and the Bread Line has their number the
same as it will have others in the time to
come
harten!erS, walters and cooks are skill
ed workers in their chosen calling: hut
they cannot utilize that skill at digo;no
trenches, saving wood or shoveling coal.
about the only labor left for them 70 do
when their trade has been lcgislatcd ont
or existence by Stclzle and the Anti .Sa
loon League
Reverend Stclzlc S experience in Ga
looms must have been limited 70 tho ..s,,,
""S' pumps that one occasionally finds
III close proximity to shops and factories.
such bulge joints may employ q fol
low from the factory on account of his
popularity with the ''bunch. - but no ono
outside of those bowl houses, and Doc
lor steele was ever known to accuse tho
Taper and drawer of sud1s', of hoiro,
Il bartender Anti Saloon Steele appears
10 DE slightly mixed in his bearing. he
seems to make no distinction botweon ,
l-"Nee Skate Shop and up town cafe:
II" is unable to distinguish the difference
''iWecn Il 'sOuSe DEPOT and n ron+la
man 5 bar; he is somewhat like tho -.
"heh asked Il question by his teacher. re-
Pi'c" 'hat they were all birds so long as
they could fly, lie did not know or c,ro
about the plumagc. anything that couId
ny was bird. hence in Doc StelzIo.s nc
,i'''ti"n, anything that taps a ker Of
peer ana serves it is n bartender Tho
majority Of our bartcnders Walters ,,a
'"ohS Know no other trade or calling. and
'"e lahatics succeed in closing tho
'''"ohS and cafes, the hotels and restou-
rants where beer, wine and Iiouors oro
sod they at the same time succood IN
''''"S our thousands to the roster of nm
''hPI"E"d as well as thousands of o+bo,.
workers whose employment is dena,do,,+
III III" establishments referred TO S+elz1o
~ pretty good minister bat he he
'iAS I" make noise like man that don :,
Know what he is talking about whom ba
''arfs discussing barboys. cooks and Won't
.'ERE L. SULLIVAN.