The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-26

WORKING man and lbs family And
then when no hit them up for G lousy
dollar q day raise. to help pay for the
profiteerins prices on the grub We eat
they give us the hootl"
Elsie was looking very steadily and
studiously At her big husband. ''Wellgh
she said as he ran out Of breath.
Well Billy resumed. ITS about
all over, dis. There's going TO be
something doing, and that right quick.
/ dunno's IT'S worth while for US to
change from one room to three. May
be wen be In the middle Of a hard
boiled shfndy IN week or two-and
either have some kind Of q decent
share in things or none at all. Death
Is better than slavery" The boy stared
gloomAy at passing touring car.
The girl was about an inch above
five feet-her husband about an inch
above six. Her eyes had been grow.
ing bigger and bigger as she listened
to his dour speech. Now she seized
HIM by the arm and said: BILLY Noxen
you come home with me, straight.
And don't you speak or even
think - word till tell you to-" The
somber face of the boy thawed into
a sheepskln grin as he permitted him
self to be marshaled along six city
blocks to the place where they lived
in Mrs. ELS furnished second floor
back.
Not until they were in their room.
with the door closed behind them, did
Elsie speak again. Now" she de-
clared, taking the bundles from Billy
and putting them on the table, i've
got something % say to you, you big
boob! You've been listening to those
darned Bolshevii1s again! You SIT
down there and answer me couple
of questions" And she pushed her
husband into the limpy-legged morris
chair. "First-How much money did
we have after two years when we quit
Rcxbury and came here? We had $140
didn't we? We've been here four
months and how much have we got?
We've got $3.50 Of new money, that's
what we've got. And IT'S clean money
Billy, honestly earned I'd rather
have that than a million that was graft
ed. We're not getting along SO badly.
Maybe somebody else rs getting 4
whole lot more that don't deserve
half as much. But guess those
things will be Strengthened out II fell
lows like you don't go loony and spoil
everything. Anyhow, you never had
so much money ahead in your life. Bill
ly Noxen and know 1t.
Now, who's the head devil over
there at the yard in getting up all this
I. W. W. sentiment? 1t Is a black
muzzled fellow they call Saunderson?
well. Saunderson's the smartest.
most independent man in the yard, II
that's what you mean, and not afraid
to speak his mind. The fellows listen
to him because he's there with the
goods"
81 thought so. I sat behind him and
some other anarchist in a street car
yesterday, when he ought to have been
at work And know what he thinks.
heard him teilthe man with him that
1t was about time the boorzhwa was
kept from monepohzing everything in
Guiding the most beautiful and desir.
able wives-that's exactly what he
said. Billy Noxen!"
"Well' responded Billy rather doubt
fully" he meant that a working man
can't compete with a rich one for a
girl, when he can't send her flowers
and give her buzz car rides and such
things"
BILLY, you're stmp. lie meant
because he said so-that the women
ought to be nationalized. Understand
that? Made the property OF the men