The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-04-23
The Black Sheep.


with Jungle ways he might nave quot
ed very appropriate scripture to those
" ho did the threatening for with the
exception of the boy every mothers
sen of them had dozen what their am
bassador was doing there fore he might
have said "he whom there is amongst
You without sin, let him cast the first
stone.
The fact was that their ambassador
finding himself in possession of dol
lar and ten cents immediately for.
got his constituents. Every one of them
were broke and he was monied man.
For it must be admitted that there is
vast difference betewen a dollar and
lie arrived in the village he forthwith
he arrived in the village he forth with
entered the premises of "John Barley
corn and there sailed the seas of
happiness until the last penny had
crossed the bar, after which the jungle
Ambassador was forcibly evicted by a
husky bar tender 1t was about two
o clock in the morning when lie re.
turned to the jungle in what police
Judges call Gan intoxicated condi
tom. Jack was the only one who
listened to his story of having met
friend who was hungry and too weak
to come to the jungle, the others paid
no tatention to him. There had been
occasions when they told similar
stories themselves. Needless to say
when the miscreant returned the others
had devoured the chicken and he was
forced to continue his fast.
About five o'clock the next morning
Jack followed his new found com
panions to point about two miles
west of the town and there in the
morning twilight they boarded west
bound freight and clung to it until in
the evening, when one of the grouD
told them that they had better pet off
as the most blood thirsty rail road
bull on the entired division was to
be found at the next stop. They had
however crossed the great divide and
: were well down on the Pacific slope
where the weather was much mildcr
and the junglng easier They camped
for the night in an old cabin which
evidently had belonged to a prospector
in days gone by. Two of the group
now went to the town to do little
"pan handling" and they invited
the Ambassador of the night before TO
; go with them leaving Jack and young
fellow who called himself Boston
Slim to arrange matters in the cabin.
The Ambassador was rather ill having
!, had nothing but whisky for about
= fifty hours. The other two were in
no happy frame of mind toward him,
: so it happened on the way TO town that
they forced him into an argument and
gave him sound drubbing after which
he was dismissed from their company.
r When the two arrived in the town
y Of Mullen one went to hotel and
. asked for an envelope and some sta
@ tionary He put the stationary in the
V envelope and wrote on the outside the
d address of Mrs. Sarah Jones, Leesvil'c,
e Ohio, and went down the street. The
IS first residence he came to he knocked
n on the door and told the lady who
% answered hard luck story asking her
to give him postage stamp that he
If might send this letter to his mother
N for assistance. She did not have the
" stamp but gave him a quarter and so
(. he went from house to house until he
~ had gathered about four dollars. He
,f returned to the cabin, loaded with the
!. necessaries of life. The other partner
,s had taken less labor having simply
n. taken a dressed chicken and two loaves
,e of bread out af a grocery delivery
| wagon while the delivery man was in
n house. There was feast in the
if iungles that night and the next morn.
nt ing Jack walked into town and got his
In first job in the mines
IN Once safely installed in the mine
10 boarding house Jack was given a
glimpse of another phase of the class
Of struggle. He had been suddenly trans.
IN planted from the agricultural to the
he industrial prolctariat and his analy-
al teal mind was not slow to discover
N. that mans industrial environment
ne greatly modifics his mental processes
N. rs we'll as his physical habits of life
TO and action. He noticed that there
/. was mining type as there was IN
H., agricultural type. and later on he
lie would learn that each particular in
Of drstry has tendency to draw to itself
70 definite types of men and women.
yn He was employed as mmcker at
gs first but in couple of days he was
x. given a job swinging drill hammer
no From the start he liked the work as IT
bo took him far into the bowels Of the
n earth and by actual contact taught
I'll him much about the formation OF
Ily rocks and the disposition Of metalifer
n.r Gus ores Eagerly he listened to every
NO conversation the miners held upon the
on subject Of formation, lodes and fisSurcs
he as well MS upon the technique OF
no working the mine, and in less than Z
10 week he caught himself using sucf
terms rs "dip, contact, talewall" a!
om we'll as the different technical names
ny of ores that the local mines yielded
70 But his contact with George and Her
.cd man, Rudolph and Collins had opcnej
40 his minds eve to tho human side oi
,rc the question. He could not help bu
ION ask how does this work effect the mel
lis engaged in ito How does IL effect 50
inc ciety as n wholel To what extent i
his the farmer dependent upon the miner
of Can the miner exist Independent Of Tn,
nor 'armer' This led him to interrogat
lnb his fellow workers as to their socia
nv conditions, and thru this discovere,
nm nm that the class war Of which his friend
;aI had spoken and the foretaste Of whicl
Tho he had experienced in the Anamoos
;vo Jail was in reality the most diabolica
wo fact in modern existence.
For the first time he learned tha
nb. the Western Federation of Miners ha
re- been, and still was in life and deaf
We struggle with the mine owners. The.
-. tnid him 10 tbo r,t,bod hotti,, x,,L ~