The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-07-06
THE LABOR ARGUS.

and factories. In these he privately
owns the Jobs and robs other work
ers. s=
This boss takes more, than his
share. He, re-invests it. He may
waste 1t. He owns the meadow Cthe
| factory. He owns the NOW (the
narket-) You harvest the hay
| on his terms You take the hay
| from the mow---on his terms.
Times are dun and freight cars
are shunted onto sidetracks. You
| railroad workers are on vacation"
Your pocket books are full of holes.
Your stomachs are full---of hunger
aches. You section men get about
S1.23 day when you work. And
meat is forty cents smell. The
WOODEN tariff schedules have ceased
to interest you. Your dreams run
all to cotton. You modestly hope
that you will be able to buy calico
for the baby, and that between times
of taking in washing, your wife can
keep it mended.
Certainly. You are a railroad la
'borer. The Goulds are railroad own
ers. So you must divide up with
the Lady Vivien. Your baby's back
is calico clad. Vivien's back is us
ually not much clad either but to
compensate for this nakedness, she
dresses the floor behind her in white
satin. The train on her wedding
dress was eight yeards long, twenty
four feet. A long train. Why not?
She belongs to railroad family.
The train was garnished with seed
pearls and silver rosettes.
COmrade section man, forget your
own bare table and remember rap
| turously the glories of the Could
Decies wedding. Brace up, man.
you have had the privilege of help
ing to pay for a great function.
And take heart. When again you
get job on the Gould SYSTEM
when your vacation closes, Vivien
| may be ready to permit you to buy
| a divorce for her. You know how
proudly you section men wore tat
| tered overalls that you might con-
tribute to the domestic row fund
| OF Anna Gould and the Count Bopi
| de Castellane. But if you may not
pay for milady's divorce, you will
assuredly have chance. to buy
| few blooded horses for Lord Decies'
| stable or dogs for his kennel. That
| mans name troubles me. don't
| know whether it is pronounced
| Desees of Dutchcheese, but no mat
ter; he's lord anyway, glory to his
name! ! know he would not ac-
cept your house for a dog kennel, if
you should offer it. There is some
class to his dogs. And, come to
think, your house is like your job
| You don't own it; SO his ludship will
not have an opportunity to turn up
his royal nose at your offer.
Have you listened to the teaching
| of the McKinley-Mark Hanna-Har-
rison Grey Otis school of republic
cans? to-wit. that the prosperity Of
the poor must come through the
| prosperity of the rich. The rich
grow prosperous robbing you. The
more they rob you the more pros
publican logic and anyone but a
| dunderheaded worKingman could un-
derstand it.
| Vivien Gould, they tell you. has n
right to her wealth. 1t is the
Wages of Abstinence (from work)
And the Wages of Risk (of your
neck.) Also she has earned life
long vacation.
Democratic leaders have their own
peculiar ideas about vacations
Woodrow Wilson is reported on
good authority to have given some
young teachers on the Princeton fac
hrlty permanent vacations because
| they had expressed their belief in
socialism. Governor Harmon Of
Ohio used gattling guns to teach
the street car men of Columbus how
either to work or go on that long
vacation.
Why don't you join the Socialist
party and help the class conscious
workers OF the world to put the
job owner, the politicians and the
gattling guns out of commission?
You know in Butte, Montana, they
have elected Socialist Mayor and
several councilmen. Comrade Ma
bic, one of the hard workers in
the city campaign, summoned the
workers in a rough and ready poem,
which l think you will enjoy read
ing:
JOIN THE PARTY