Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-22

Elm your assistant lunch busIer..
says be. and IN the couEss Of things
10 farthee sxplaiDed that - was .
tusbeat Arsman cut % strike. CIV
ing ne the 5ollsfins Information about
the tisup: It an Come up over dose
Of dyspepsia ~
Back up" Interrupted "Kink."
squirming.. Are you plumb bug7 Get
together! You're certainly the Raving
Kid. 70 must have stone bruised your
heel and got concession Of the brain"
"Yes. sir-indigestton," Dilli8gs con-
dnued. "Old man Badr1ch Of the Bad
rich Transportation company has It
terrible. 1t laads on his solar every
morning about . o'clock. getting worse
steady, and reaches psrihelion along
about II. He can tell tho time OF day
By taste. One morning when his mouth
felt like about 10:45 IN comes . com
mittes from Cirsmen and Engineers'
local No. q with q demand for more
wages, peodding him with the intina-
ton that II he didn't ante they'd tie
up all his beats. 81
II s'pose . teaspoonful Of baking
soda, assimilated internally around
the environments Of his appendix.
would have spared the strike and
cheated me out Of being q hero. As
tho poet might have said. Upon such
slender pegs Il this our greatness
hung"
"oh, Gawd" exclaimed Mullins
pisusly.
aAnyhow. the bitterness in the old
mans inner tubes showed in the bile
Of his answer. and he told 'em II
they wanted more money he'd give
'em chance to earn it-they could
work nights - well rs days. He
intimated further that they'd ought
to be satisfied with their wages. ~
they'd undoubtedly foller the Same
line Of business In the next world and
wouldn't get q cent for feeding the
fires neither.
next morning the strike Was called,
and the guy that breathed treachery
and walkouts was one oily Heegan,
further submerged under the titles Of
president Of the Federation Of Fre1h
Water Firemen; also chairman Of
the United Water Front Workmen.
which last takes in everything doing
business along the river except the
wharf rats and typhoid germs, and
its with the disreputableness Of this
party that ] infected myself to the
det1iment Of labor and the triumph Of
the Law.
I'D. O'Hara Heesan is an able man,
and inside Of a week he'd spread the
strike till It was the cleanest, dirtiest
tieup ever known. The hospitals and
morgues was full Of nonunion men.
but the river was empty al right
Yes; he had . persuading method Of
arbitration quite convincing to the
on Of the lead pipe.
Things got to be pretty fierce BY
and BY, for they had the police buf-
faloed, and disturbances got plentyer
than the CASUALTIES at butchers
picnic. The strikers got hungry. too,
finally because the principles Of
unionism II like rash on your me-
chanic, skin deep-inSide, his gas6ics
works three shifts . day even IL his
outsides IL idle and steaming with
socialism.
"oily fed 'em dray loads Of elo-
quence, but It didn't seem to b real
filling. They'd leave the lectures and
rob q bakery.
'He was q wonder. though: just sat
In his once and kept the shipowners
waiting in line, swearing bitter and
refined cuss words about ignorant
fend' and 'cussed pedasogue.' which
last, for 'Kink's' enlighten ment. means
4 kind Of Hebrew meeting house.
these here details my new friend
give me, ending with q eulogy on
oily Heegan. the idol Of the idle
II he says starve We starve.' says
he. and IL he says work We work.
Seel oh, he's the goods, he is! Let's
60 down BY the river. Aebbe we'll see
him. So me and Murdoch liked down
Water street. where they keep mos
quito netting over the bar fixtures and
spit ct the stove.
I'VE, found him. = big mouthed,
shifty kind Of man. bout as cynical
looking in the face ~ black bass
and full Of wind as toad Dish. ex-
changed drinks for principles Of So
cialism and doing 30 happened 70 dis
play my roll. Murdoch slipped away
and made talk with a friend; then
when Heegan had left be steers me
out the hack way into an alley. Short
CUT says he. to another and better
place.
II follers through back room: then
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