The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-04-25

her. Lantier seeing it interferes in
her behalf and being attacked by
Chaval thoroughly thrashes him.
:Chaval, taking advantage of the
growing misery among the minersI
urges some of them back to work.
While they are in the mines the other
strikers cut the elevator ropes. There
is a panic in the mine depths. The
imprisoned miners finally escape by
ladders but have to run the gauntlet
of the enraged strikers who still hold
out. When Chaval is dragged from
the mine Lantier rushes at him but
! Catherine steps in between and pre-
| vents harm being done to her hls-
band: Blinded by hatred Chaval goes
to Hennebeau and denounces the
miners leaders, especially Lantier
| The police are called upon to arrest
| him but warned in time he escapes
! to the abandoned shaft of --Voroux
| The strike becomes violent and the
| troops are called in to reinforce the
| police. In the absence of Lantier.
| Souvarine is called in to lead the
strikers. Hennebeau's house is at
tackled and stoned. Seeing the soldiers
preparing to fire on the mob the di-
rector's~ daughter rushes from the
house to try to avert the coming
calamity. She is caught in the storm
| CT bullets and" dies together with
many of the miners and their wives,
| among them GATHERINGS father.
Strike Is Crushed.
This brushes the strikers move
ment and instigated by Chava1 they
vote to resume work, Lantier, emerg-
| ed from, his refuge, tries in vain to
d:ssuade them but his influence is
gene and bowling to the majority he
also goes back to work. Souvarine
alone implacable, determines upon
desperate measures He releases the
bolts binding the barriers that hold
| back water from flooding the mine
and the flood breaks loose. He is
drowned in the cataclysm that fol-
lows. The miners, caught like rats
in trap run ma:dly 1ither and thith-
er. Some escape, others, among them
Lantier,> Catherine and Chaval. are
caught. These latter three find them
selves imprisoned in an abandoned
working pit where they sit in despair
with the water up to their knees
They have little food and when after
1OA6 NdLlS11Ao dLISIIlplS W give
a little Of her lunch to Lantier, Cha
val furiously opposes. Chava1 final
~ attempts to deprive his wife by
force of her morselH of food I. In
righteous rage Lantier strikes him
ard kills him. His dead body, float
ing on the water, 11aunts them.
Come to the Rescue.
Forgetting their animosities, direc-
tors and workmen unite in the work
OF rescue, Through an abandoned
pit they come near to Catherine and
I.antier. Their signals being answer
cd by the prisoners they redouble
their exertions. BY imprudence, how
ever, an explosion takes place which
kills many of the rescuers and sets
ia ok the work. Among those killed
are GATHERINGS brother. =
When the workers finally pierce the
intervening walls they find only Ian
tier alive for. Catherine lies dead In
his arms. When the unconscious
man is brought into the daylight ana
at last opens his eyes it Is the be-
reaved Negrel who with heart OF
sympathy comforts him in his GRIEF
when he sees the body of his dead
sweetheart. Broken in spirit he sees
injustice rule and the poor pay the
viper. At the Sunbeam theater next
Week.