The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-09-11


''You lap 1t up like a man. says /.
westT
Nope says he; born here
"'Well. I'm stranger says ]. 'ou
absorbing such beauties of architectur
and free lunch as offers along the line
II amt keeping you up I'd be gla'
of your company
"'Pm your assistant lunch buster
says he. and In the course of thing
he further explained that he was I
tughoat fireman out on strike Civ
ing me the follering information abou
the tieup: 1T all come up over dose
of dyspepsia =
Back up interrupted "Kink,
squirting Are you plumb bug? Get
together. You're certainly the Ravine
Kid. Ye must have stone bruised your
heel and got concession Of the brain
Eyes. sir indigestion" Billings con.
tinued. "OId man Badrich of the Bad
rich Transportation company has IL
| terrible Ii lands on bis solar every
morning about 8 O'clock, getting worse
|
about H.. He can tell the time OF day
| by taste. One morning when his mouth
| felt like about 10:45 In comes com
mittee from Firemen and Engineers
local No. Fl with demand for more
wages, prodding him with the intima-
ton that If he didn't ante they'd tie
up all his boats.
81 s'pose a teaspoonful of baking
soda. assimilated internally around
the environments OF his appendix.
would have spared the strike and
cheated me out of being a hero. AS
the poet might have said, Upon such
slender pegs is this our greatness
hung"
"Oh. Gawdr' exclaimed Mullins
piously.
Anyhow. the bitterness In the old
mans inner tubes showed in the bile
Of his answer, and be told 'em IL
they wanted more money he'd give
work nights as well as days. He
intimated further that they'd ought
to be satisfied with their wages, as
they'd undoubtedly foller the same
line of business in the next world and
wouldn't get a 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 Fresh |
Water Firemen; also chairman of |
the United Water Front Workmen,
which last takes In everything doing
wharf rats and typhoid germs. and
It's with the disreputableness of this
party that 1 infected myself to the
1etriment of labor and the triumph of
the law.
ID. O'Hara Heegan is an able man,
and inside of a week he'd spread the
strike till 1t was the cleanest dirtiest
-ieup ever known. The hospitals and
norgues was full of nonunion men,
)ut the river was empty all right
Yes; he had a persuading method of
arbitration quite convincing to the
most calloused involving the laying
IN Of the lead pipe.
Things got to be pretty fierce by
nd by. for they bad the police buff
aloed. and disturbances got plentyer
han the casualties at butchers
icnic. The strikers got hungry. too,
nally, because the principles of
nionism is like rash on your me-
hanic. skin deep-inside. his gastrics
forks three shifts day even II his
utsides is idle and steaming with
"'Oily' fed 'em dray loads of elo-
uence, but 1t didn't seem to be real
ling. They'd leave the lectures and
Do bakery.
He was a wonder. though; just sat
his office and kept the shipowners
aiting In line. swearing bitter and
fined cuss words about ignorant
end and 'cussed pedagogue.' which
st, for Kinks enlightenment, means
kind OF Hebrew meeting house.
These here details my new friend
We me, ending with a eulogy on
lily Heegan, the idol of the idle
:" If he says starve we starve.' says
J, and II he says work we work.
'e! oh, he's the goods he is! Let's
down by the river. Mebbe well see
m So me and Murdoch hiked down
alter street. where they keep mos
Ito netting over the bar fixtures and
Ii at the stove.
I'VE found him. big mouthed,
fifty kind of man. bout as cynical
Dking In the face as a black bass
d full of wind as toad fish. | ex-
anged drinks for principles of so
llism and doing so happened to dis
~ my roll. Murdoch slipped away
d made talk with friend: then
zen Heegau had left he steers me
I the back way into an alley Short "a
t.. says he. to another and better
ice. ga
i folders through back room; then
! steps out the door I'm grabbed ~
this new friend, while Murdoch ue
thes my head with gas pipe billy, III
e of the regulation, strike promoting u
I'd. like they use for decoying men, ot
IS into the glorious ranks Of labor. ui
| saw a burning Of Rome that was '"
dream and whole cloudbursts of tel
)oting stars. but yanked Mr.. En- ni'
,Sfoctin ouav from, mn c,,r | hPl