The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-17
on the bar and smeiiet Of his fnrers

n etsl4th W JuHl optih ~ w lbVAdl
ways-reg lar human blottsr.
'Youslap q up lie a man.. saysII-
ikea cowman full growed. Ever been
west? ~ IS.
nope. says he; bora here
- We'll. l;iI ii sirnnSti. snys !, out
absorbing such beauties Of architecture
aud free lunch US offers along the line.
!, II ] amt keeping you up Id be glad
of your company. -
I'm your assistant lunch buster
says be, and In tue course of things
he further explained that he was a
tIgboat fireman out Oh n strike, Civ.
Ing; tne the follerlns information about
~the8ileup: 1T nll come up over a dose
ofd!spepslai ="
g-Back up interrupted .Klnk.r
sauirming sArefyou plumb bug? Get
together. You're certainly the Having
-Kil: Ye must have stone bruised your
heel and got concession Of the l,rain.'
b. Yes. sir-indlscstlon.r Billings con-
!. tInucd! "old man I,adrich of the Bad
rich Transportation company has 1t
terrible. alt'lands on his solar every
morning about o O'clock. getting worse
steady. aud reaches perihcliOn along
about II. lie eau tell 1.-THE time Of day
by taste. One morning when his mouth
( felt lie about 1915 IN COMES u com.
mlttee from I'irencn aad Engineers
= local No. with a demaud for more
wages, prodding him with the intiina,
tion that II lie didn't ante they'd tie
up all Ibis. boats.
II spose n teaspoonful Of baking
soda. assiniilated Internally around
the environments OF his appendix.
: would have spared the strike ami
Cheated me. oit Of being hero. As
the poet might have said. upon such
slender pegs Is this our greatness
hung s s + s N.
oh Gawdg, exclaimed Mullins
plously. 4. sts a. al
/ Anyhow. file bitterness 81 theDoitl,
mans inner tubes showed IL the bile:
off his answer, and he told Fem IL
they wanted more moneyf,lle'd. give
EN- d clisnce 70 earn it-tLey could
work nights as well as days. lie
lntitnatcd further that they'd ought
TO be satisfied with their wages, as
they'd undoubtedly follcr the same
line Of business In the next world and
Wouldn't get d cent for feeding the
fires neither.
Next morning the strike was called,
and the guy that. breathed treachery
and walk0uls was one Oily Heesan,
further submerged under the titles Of
president OF the Federation OF Fresh
Water Firemep; also chairman of
tile United Water Front worEmen,
which last takes In everything doing
business along the river except the
wharf rats and Typhoid germs. and
It's with the ,dlsreputablencss of this
party. that infected myself 10 the
detrlment OF labor and the triumph OF
the law. -
i"p. o'Hara Hcesan Is an able man,
and inside OF week he'd spread the
strike till II was the clcancst. ,lirticst
tIcup ever known. The hospitals and
nlorgues was full Of nonunIon men,
but the river was empty all right.
Yes: lie had pcrsualiiig method Of
arbitration quite, convincing TO the
most callouscd.. Involving the. layln:
on Of the lead pipe.
Things got 10 be. pretty fierce by
and by, for they had the police buf.
falocd. aud disturbances got plcntycr
than; the casualties ut butchers
picnic. The strikers got hungry. too.
finally, because the principles OF
unionism is like rash on your ne.
chanlc. skin decp-insidc. his gastrics.
works three shifts day even IL his
outsidcs Is idle aud stcamlng with
socialism.
oily fed 'em dray loads Of clo..
qucnce, but 1t didn't seem to be real
, filling. They'd leave the lectures and
rob a bakery.
ale was u wonder. though; just sat
In his Office and Kept the shipowncrs
waiting. In line. swearing bitter aud
refined cuss words about ignorant
fcnd' and 'cussed pedasogue.' which
2 TACT. ,iVi MUM ocuiSutciuttut,i tuCuHt
a kind OF Hebrew meeting house.
'Tliese here details MY new friend,
give me. ending with a cuIogy. on
oily HecSan. the Idol Of he idle.
( f5..tlfshe says starre we startc.' says
,she,g and az he says work we work.
Sec! oh. hes the goods. he is. Let's
: go,dowp by the river. Mcbbe we'll see
him.. SO me and Murdoch hikcL down
Water street, where they keep MOS.
quito netting over the bar fixtures aud
spit at the stove.
, I'VE found him, biS mouthcd.
shlfty kind OF man. bout as cynical
looking In the face as a black bass
and full of wind as a toad fish. | cI-
changed drinks for principles of so
ciallsm aud doing so happened to dis:
play my roll. Murdoch slipped away.
and made talk with friend: then
when Heegan had left lie steers me
out the back way into an alley. short
CUT says he. TO another and better
place: ; 81.
81 follers through BACK room; then
rs I steps out the door I'm grabbed