Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-06
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A Story for Labor Day Showing I
New Way Of Ending a Strike IS.
By F. A. mitchell
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation, 1911. -

I'm sorry, miss, to have to tell you
that I'm going to leave you"
A girl of twenty, whose red and
white complexion bespoke Irish blood,
stood before her mistress, lingering her
apron with evident embarrassment.
why, Maggie, what have done?''
Nothing, MISS"
'"Then why are you going to- leave
me?"
'Well, miss-the truth is-why, miss
I'm going to be married."
'Oh. I see. Who are you going to
marry, Maggie?"
"Jim Doolan, that works in the Aims
worth factory"
1.-THE Ainsworth factory?"
Yes, MISS"
Margaret Etheridge, the girls mis-
tress, was interested in the Ainsworth
company as stakeholder and through
its president and manager, Richard
Ainsworth.
Pm sorry to lose you, Maggie" said
Hiss Etheridge, but if you are going
to be married, you can depend upon
me to give you whatever you will need
in the way of clothes, household linen
and other things, to enable you to set
up housekeeping
Thank You. MISS"
Maggie was married and went to
live with her husband in small suit
OF rooms. Jim's wages were not very
large, but the couple made them do
very we'll till the first child came,
when they were obliged to take q
backward step financially by mourning
q considerable bill for medical attend
ance. Then Jim was taken sick, and
that increased the indebtedness.
Meanwhile Richard Ainsworth had
been pressing an unsuccessful suit
with Miss Etheridge. He had greatly
increased the output of the Ainsworth
company since he took the manage
ment, and to the book value of the
stock so per cent had been added. In
deed, Richard Ainsworth had come to
be considered one of the smartest
young business men in the state. But
there were differences between him
and Margaret Etheridge that prevent.
ed her from accepting him. Those
business qualifications for which the
world applauded him did not appeal
to her. She did not understand the
methods by which that silent partner
share of the profits of business. She
saw the operatives-men, women and
children-going to the works early In
the morning and, having worked hare
all day, return in the evening to thei1
shabby homes to repeat the process
day after day. The were working tt
pay dividends on her stock, while she
who did nothing, lived in atfluence. Il
seemed to her that there was some
thing wrong. She appealed to Richart
Ainsworth for an explanation, but hi
explanations were not satisfactory
His REASONS convinced her, but he
heart, her sense of justice, were un
moved by them.
''Why can't you pay your operative
enough to enable them to live NOR
comfortably she asked Mr.. Aims
worth.
because of competition"
'Explain."
"Other concerns would be able t
undersell and we would be forced GU
of business
"Why not appropriate a portion q
the dividends, which are enormous,
the operatives?'
Because of several reasons, til
most pertinent of which is that til
stockholders would object"
Il am a stakeholder. You may CT
my dividends in half, giving one hal
to the operatives"
"You are one among hundreds; til
rest, instead Of being willing to Civ
up their profits, are bowling for NOR
My dear Margaret, you don't unde
stand such things"
"Does anybody understand them?'
Eyes, one-Providence."
One day Maggie Doolan sent pit