Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-06
TAKESSENT|MENT
FROM |SBUS|NESS
Employer Learns That Kind
, ness Only Brings De-
mandS for Raises.

NEW YORK. December 3.-An up
town employer has discovered a
new angle to the labor situation A
few weeks ago he Increased the sal
aries of his office people 30 per cent.
Il think that is enough" said he.
for you know, we take good care of
you. II you are i'll we keep you ON
the pay roll until you are fit to go
back to work. Only recently, in fact,
one clerk was parked for six months
in an Atlantic City hotel until her
nerves quit twittering. Others have
been understood that faithful en-
ployes are certain of their Jobs as
| long as they live. whether they are
able to work or not.
Two weeks ago the employees asked
for 90 per cent more. They wanted
the market value of their services.
they said. Other clerks in similar
of1lces are getting more money than
they are. The boss thought it over
and decided that they are right:
i've been paternaIistic and fat
headed" said he. I'm a century
out of tune. From now on | shall
pay you just what your services are
worth in the open market-but well
cut out the sentiment. l reserve the
right to fire any one of you at any min
ute of day. If you get sick you'll
pay your own bills. If you cant
work you can quit. Business, as you
have remarked, is business"
The employees are thinking it over.
The boss thinks they will go on strike.
Workers Fooled the Boss.
Four times during the rush season
the owner of one of the big dress
making establishments had. trouble
with his employees. Not much trouble.
Once there was a difference of opin-
ion as to wages. and once they asked
for more light, and once they refused
to a forclady.
Each time" said the owner, they
just stood up and walked out on me.
Didn't say word, We didn't even
discuss the matters in question. No
one so much as replied to me. They
just got up and beat il. and / had the
dickens of a time getting them TO
come back"
1t rather peeved him. Each time
he thought that he had a good case,
but the employees did not listen to it.
They forced him to obey their orders
on pain of striking. So when the
rush of work slackened he thought
he would get even
You have refused to work at all
on Saturdays" said he. Hereafter
you must work the full half day
He thought that would anger them
and they would walk out. and that
for a few days or weeks he could
continue negotiations. BY that time
business would have picked up again
and he could afford to yield to their
wishes 1t would have been lay-on.
plus a little personal satisfaction.
But they didn't walk out" said he.
They said: Sure. boss"
wilde's Opinion OF Beckett.
Jimmy Wilde. the English fly
weight. who is over here in the foot
steps of other European visitors. and
for the same purpose, does not think
much of Beckett, the British heavy
les good man." Mr.. Wilde is
quoted as saying. when the other
man isn't as good as e is"
on his way to America he encoun-
tered storm at sea.
"All ] could do" he said. plaintive-
". was to wonder what detained
death"
Definition OF Intoxication.
Mislikers of the movies hold that the
pictures present an exaggerated and
sensational view of life. Yet l saw
bicycle policeman the other day who
might have gone on in a comedy Win
out change of makeup HUSBAND
walked into an uptown restaurant,
checked his hat and coat, walked to
a table. slapped his wife. pulled her
escorts nose. got his hat and coat and
walked out again. Policemen chaseo
a manufacturing loft by hand-oVer-
handing down rope from the seven
teenth to the fourteenth story WIN
dows. Mike Gilhooley. the kid stow
away. was adopted at Ellis lsland py
we'll to do woman and invested IN
scenery that would appal little Lord
Fauntleroy. Thieves robbed an OLD
woman and then deliberately stran,
gled her. after tying her hand ana
foot.
A fiathouse robber preys on Russian
women of the lower East Side after
his advance agent has discovered the
women that have money. The ao-
vance agent poses as the agent OF
charitable society. Two men tap at
the door of a house in which a muir
der has just been committed, to ask
for a drink of water. The presumed
murderer himself comes to the door
and turns them away. Brooklyn Is
upset by the case OF SOPHIE Looer-
house and her phantom lover.
rich woman submits to blackmail 10
save her son-who isn't guilty at all.
but has acted suspiciously in the eff
fort to save his father-who isn't
guilty either.
Trouble with the movies is that they
are too conservative and restrained
Too Busy to Trap Radicals.
Isn't it barely possible that we
Americans are primarily to blame for
the bolshevik yawping? On train
arriving in New York from Pittsburgh
a young foreigner raved against the
government of the United States.
"A people of fools ruled by thieves"
was the least he said
IF you open your. head again on
the road to New York I'll knock it
Off" said an American.
The young foreigner did not speak
again But-the matter was permit
ted to drop His utterances were of
oh IA racter that justified AN Official in
curry into his character and antece-
dents, but not an American would stir
about it.
Were too busy" was the excuse of
eve--y man i'm the car. Let him rave.