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and cit serves him right, he had no
business shooting off his bazoo against
the people who give him work." and
ga man should stay by the man who
feeds him." Ye gods, they fed me,
when I worked in their mines, in con-
stant danger Of death and received
only a fraction of what 1 produced.
No, no Ed I can't see where either
you or I gain anything, by playing
twentieth century Jesus. Both the ma
sters and the slaves, would look upon
us as Black Sheep"
"By the way, do you know why
sheep men keep black sheep in their
flockf II is in order to count the white
ones and keep track Of them. So we
agitators are used by the masters to
size up the temper Of the slave"
They were Just crossing little
brook that ran from the woodland into
the lake, by jumping from one rock to
the other. The rocks were wet with
the rain that had fallen and the big
man loosing his footing fell full length
into the water. The icy bath colled
the ardor of his eloquence and Jack
rustled about to find pitch wood, with
which to start n fire, sa as to dry his
companions clothes. After a few mo
ments of good natured bantering about
the mishap Collins said, "you're al
wrong Jack, even il you were right
YOU would bo wrong. Yoy are to big
a man to entertain so damned selfish
a view Of life. You simply must hell
in ,b;s battle Cor n hetter world. Re
member you donot live for yoursel
alone. You are only link in the chair
of human evolution. Some day you ma,
have children, and they may live at tn,
death Of capitalism, while you live'
during its life. know thaI you do no
want IL said that you could hav
helped to change conditions only yo'
were more interested in rats thai
YOU were in the welfare OF your class
After all Ia said, the fact remains, tha
we are human and we have dutio
and responsibilities not only to ouI
selves but TO our kind. ! know yo
will take this view Of it, ultimately
There are two forces that will driv
YOU to Il. The one is the hand Of car
, italism, and the other is the par
|, Of your note book you missed thi
morning"
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death, one Of two things must happen
either, the workers take over natural
resources and the tools of industry
and run them for the common good,
or the world plunges back into the
dark ages or worse" He stopped and
looked at his companion intently as if
expecting an aswer, but the boy made
no reply. He just walked on beside
Collins on the trail between the forest
and the lake, evidently busy with
his own thought on the subject Of
human destiny.
Just before they came in sight OF
the village Collins resumed the con-
versation. Speaking as if to himself
"It makes no difference" said he
"if the ultimate change comes, first
to the light or to the dark and 1t will
be for good or evil in proportion to the
accumulated intelligence of the working
class. The change will come as truly
as tomorrow's rising sun will bring the
coming Of the day. That can bC
mathematically demonstrated. Blondes
and brunettes are not a problem il
industrial development, altho they ma,
| be problem in social relations. An,
social relations are but the reflex o.
industrial necessities and industria
necessities are regulated by the re
quirements of mankind and the avail
ibility Of natural resources, plus tn
evolution of the machine. All thes
factors are interacting. The real pre-
blem is, whether mankind will retail
and develop what It now has o
If it will lose and relapse into tn
primeval night"
Jack looked at the big man curiou:
ly. He had seldom heard him talk wit
such calm earnestness. There was n
, doubt, but what Collins believed wha
he said. He actually feared the possibl
| death Of civilization and consequer
} relapse into the dark ages. He feare
/ "Caesar's Column" more than he di
the "Iron Heel" Jack tried 10 con
, fort him with the statement thS
civilization could only fall and peris
, il by some catastrophe the blond
, races were exterminated. Then, b
maintained, that the world would 3
hack into darkness until a new ligf
. could be evolved in the fog lands.
+ But Collins was not in the mood
; philosophise. go forget IT," said
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impatiently. "Get this idea clearly in
mind, it is the one important thought
that every worker should hold. The
working class constitutes eighty per
cent of the worlds population - the
parasites twenty per cent. These
figures are not absolutely correct, 1
only use them as a paradigm. Now the
twenty, will employ the eighty, only
as long as there are markets. Once the
markets are gone, and they are fast
going, then seventy out of every eighty
will become useless to the twenty pa
rasites. Useless human beasts Of
burden will be disposed of, as were the
oxen at the coming of the horse, and
as will the horse be disposed of at the
coming Of the motor. My God kid,
can't you see the massacres, the ho-
locausts of the future, if we do not
develop the spirit Of solidarity. The
people simply must awaken to retain
and to hold what their hands and
brains have lost, for If hey do moi
then their masters will hurl them
against each other, and they
will destroy each other in the fury Of
their own ignorance, he concluded
lpassionately.
"It's no use to try it," Jack
answered. "They will only chase you
and Jail you, and finally kill you, fol
your pains. Tho very people you try Il
awaken would thank their bewhisser
ed Gods for having had part in you
murder. The very masses who yo,
: would give your life to educate woul,
hold ghost dance around your bleed
ing cadaver, It is not that they ar
viscious, it is because they are trustin,
| and obedient To their superiors, as the,
call them. They believe the word o
the papers, the preachers, the teacher:
} and all other hirelings Of the rulin
beast. You can't get them to hang tc
gether, as far as solidarity is concern
ed, the whole working class is a rop
. Of sand"
Just see what they. did TO me a
Mullen, they praised me to the skie
D when I spoke to them Of the thing
that affected their present and futur
D welfare. They led me TO believe tina
they were with mo, but when I wa
fired, because Of my agitation, thes
, very people asid among thcmsclve
o "why didn't he keep his mouth shut,
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something. was no rebel then. Just
plain hoosier but that cut me to the
quick. I have tried to atone in some
measure ever since, and I'll keep on
attacking the system that made fool
Of me, and a corpse of her, in every
way that I can as long as there is
breath in me- And if consciousness
holds out and I can gage my strength
the last three words, I will say with
my dying breath will be, "God damn
capitalism"
"Get on your duds," said Jack.
"Let's get to Harrison. Perhaps there
is an answer to those notes."
Continued next week)
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eyes, what in hell did you cut out
the leaves from that note book forP'
Jack asked as he heaped another arm
of bark on the fire.
"I sent it to the daughter Of that
real estate man at Anamoose. L have
a notion that little correspondence
will awaken new set of brain cells,
that have hitherto laid dormant in
your head That girl had the spirit
Of the crusader, while you have the
mind of scientist, and damn me If
II don't believe that bringing you
together will save you both as ferment-
ing germs in the great leaven of re-
volutionary thought. I hate the bour-
geoisie, and it was big fight on my
part to decide whether to send those
notes or not. I remembered all that
she said and appreciated more what she
did then you perhaps imagine. l know
that she is made Of good stuff, in a
sense of better stuff than you, you
are inclined to gravitate towards books,
and hills, and valleys, animals and
plants, and abstract thought, while she
is drawn toward man and Justice, and
the ideals that directly affect human
I welfare.
Then there is an other matter I want
to talk about, now that we have a
few moments time. You can't speak
Of such things before Rudy. I had a
love affair once; IL was during my
Scissorbill days. The girl worked in a
store and I worked in a mill. / got
hurt, and was laid up for six months
or more. Couldn Y raise my hand above
my head. Couldn't walk. Had to be
: wheeled about in chair. or course
, went broke right down flat. This girl
kept me during all the six months. Now
mind you she was only getting -four
, and a half week, and out Of II she
| kept herself and kept me, and in some
, way managed to give something to the
support Of her sister, Now take peek
| at scissorbill psychology. I never stop
; ped to figure that she couldn't do what
= she was doing on her salary, and whcr
/ I learned the truth after I was back NJ
:. my feet, bawled her out and left thu
0 country, Rudy would not have done
b. such a thing. Two months later me-
/ fellow who had known US both
8 and he told me that she had died three
weeks after I left with the con-ol
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The Black Sheep.

"The trouble with you is, that you
study the problems of labor and the
laboring classes, as the astronomer
studies the moon. You have too little
preceptive information of working
problems, to be in a position effect.
lively TO criticize social science, Re-
member, the test of truth is, will it
wOrkf You cannot test any social
theory by yourself. You are an in,
dividual within society and not society
itself. You will never be big enough
Jack, to force a ready made theory
down a social throat, In order to
become an effective social scientist
you must enter the working class
and study its workings from within
You must learn to guide the natural
trend Of the masses. You cannot lead
or force the mass.
II is true, you have had but little
experience in the working class. Yo,
have seen some Of its trials in minol
way, but only in very minor way
You have only approached the clas
struggle in the skirmish line; as ye
you are unacguainted with the fierce
nees Of its battles. You have met mucl
Of the dross that is, the drunken
weakned, degenerate elements, and yol
have met few thinking mon. It ha
all been in less than six months, an,
from ttis meager data you have bull
up your theory Of types as ultimat
determining factors in human evolr
tion. And I do not say that they ar
not determining factors. I often fec
the force Of your argument, for yo
know I do not like to associate wit
stew buns, Jesus lovers, and missio
stiffs. I am free TO confess that ! div
like the riff raff; they CRATE on m
nerves. 7 admit that I am top heav,
and naturally lean toward men wit
brain. But all that is beside th
question, Il obscures the real issue'
The isse Of capitalism versus humanity
Do you realize Jack that capita
ism cannot last forever, that soonc
or later IL must die, and that at II
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Chapter XXXVI.
Collins Ambition.

On their way to Harrison, Jack
asked Collins, what object he or
Rudolph had in cutting pages from his
note book, and the big man replied
that he had done so, for the good
of humanity. OF course this was an
explanation that did not explain any.
thing to the boy. Yet, he asked no
further questions, partly because he
had not understood Collins meaning
and was turning the matter over in
his mind, and partly, because Collins
Immediately proceeded to take him to
task for his singular philosophy anent
human relations.
"You have q good brain jack" said
he, "hut it is leading you wrong 1t
ties you so close to mole hill that you
fail to see the mountain. Your passion
for natural phenomena in the animal
and vegetable world has tendancy
TO blind you to the greater, and in a
sense more wonderful, phenomena, Of
the social world You are not mil.
lionaire, or the son Of a millionaire,
no matter how you wiggle you are on
the lower side Of the fence. Types
or no types, capitalism Is reality
and the class struggle is fact. II
is a damned hideous fact and you will
not he able to escape it."
'I do not deny the class struggle
I know that Il exists. The only diff
ference between you and 7 is that
maintain that Il must exist as 9
natural result Of biologic variation. As
long as life produces variations there
will be the weak and the strong, the
wise and the foolish. the aggressive and
meek, the worker and the shirker, the
schemer and the producer. All main
tain is that no matter what your
system Of society you viii always bs
face TO face with these facts" Jack
urged.
Pvt Collins ignored the boys expla
nation at least In part when he said
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Receipts:

LONDON The Triple Alliance Of
miners, railwaymen and transport work.
ers, have passed resolution calling
upon the parliamentary committee Of
the Trades Union Congress, the Lebor
Party and the Cooperative movement
70 join with the Triple Alliance IN max.
ing nm exhaustive inquiry into tho
reasons for the high cost Of living and
to work out plan for Its substantial
reduction. This plan, It was proposed
should be submitted to the government
as soon as possible.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-06-25
THE CARTOON FUND

Bill Smith, our cartoonist, has been
off the job for a couple Of weeks.
Our readers will be pleased to see he
is now back again.
Let's see what the cartoon boosters
have been doing lately.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-06-25

OF course the "open shop" is the logical Sc
quence to the first clause, and here it Is:
go The right of open shop operation,
that is. the right of employer and employeei
to enter into and determine the conditions
of employment relations with each other,lis
an essential part of the Individual right (of
contract possessed by each Of the parties"
To make the matter quite complete,
there follows clause declaring the right
to scab:
"3 All men possess the equal right to
associate voluntarily for the accomplish
ment of lawful pusposes by lawful means.
The association of men, whether employ
ers, or employees or others, for collective
action or dealing, confers no authority over,
and must not deny any right of, those who
do not desire to act or deal with them"
Just the same, as experience has shown, it
would be rough Shedding for any employer who
refused to recognize the authority of employers
association.
The fourth clause demands that associations Of
employers and of employees shall be "equally sub
ect to the authority of the State" and responsible
legally for their acts acts of agents. This clause
is criticism of the exclusion of labor unions from
the antitrust laws and it is further suggestive of
incorporation of unions and liability on suits for
damages If the full meaning of this clause We're
to be developed into law the most conservative
trade unions would soon become outlaw organiza-
tions.
The next clause is brazen bit of hypocrisy:
''5. To develop with due regard for the
health, safety and well-being Of the in
dividual the required output of industry is
the common social obligation of all engag-
ed therein. The restriction of productive ef-
fort or of output By either employer or
employee for the purpose of creating an
artificial scarcity of the product or of
labor is an injury to society,""
The absolute life principle of capitalist industry
is artificial limitation of production restriction
of output to the point of maximum return on in
vestnent.
Just why should a wage slave consider that he
has any "social obligation" concerning production
There could only be social obligation if there were
social production But with private production there
is only private obligation. Each corporation con-
sders itself responsible only to it's stockholders
that is its 1000 obligation The only "social obfgaS
ton" of the wage slave is toward his fellow-work-
ers. Production is not his business, and cannct
become his business until "the production-epochn y
that is, until social ownership makes production the
affair and interest of all engaged in the common
industry.
Now we come to wages:
&C. The wage of labor must come out
of the product of industry and must be
earned and measured by its contribution
thereto In order that the worker in his
own and the general interest," may develop
his full productive capacity, and may there
by earn at least wage sufficient to
sustain him upon proper standard of
living, it is the duty of management to CO.
operative with him to secure continuous
New-York tribune., 1920-03-24
Loft Building Figures
I'm the Brooklyn Trading

The B. +. Knowles Company has sold
226 Roebling Street. a threestory loft
building, to Louis Helfang.
The Jerome Property Corporation
has sold three-story fiat at 326 Fifth
Street to James Lemmo.
0. E. Allard and j. J. Levey have
sold, at 9l4 East twelfth Street,
stucco and shingle Colonial bungalow
with garage, on plot 30x10O.
The Realty Associates have sold
3671a Pacific Street two-story build
ing, to John F. Murtha: 21 Wolcott
Street, two-story building, on plot
20x28x100, to- Wolf Shavelson, and 81
st. James Place, three-story dwelling.
on plot 26x52xS4, to Rosa Gottlieb. G.
Wolf was the broker.
Henry Pierson & Co. have sold 266
and 25S Prospect Place. two three
story dwellings,, for Mary Darrell and
Kate Talcott; also 256 Prospect Place,
for William Whitaker
The F. c. Sauter Agency has sold
for Mildred Del Monte to Kathryn
Grace the three-story dwelling at 3S
Douglas Street.
The Bulkley g. Horton Company has
sold plot on the north side of Bergen
Street, 100 feet west of Howard Ave-
nue., 100x107, for Sarah Martin, for inn
mediate improvement.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-24
Close to 100000 Paid
For Flats at Auction

A number of business, tenement and
dwelling properties in various sections
of Manhattan were sold at auction yes
terday by Joseph P Day in the Vesey
Street salesroom for total of $780,
OCO The principal offerings were the
two five-story loft buildings at 174 and
176 Fifth Avenue, adjoining the north
which Daniel C. Connell bought for
$175,o0O. Results of other sales are:
Fifth Avenue. ia and 17s. adjoining
northwest corner Twenty second Street;
tition sale Sold to the plaintiff for
Madison Avenue. 1886 and 1888. 1911
north of 1osth Street; two 5-story tene, enc,
ments Soxl99 sdmn'strstors 5n sale Sold
Twenty second Street, 321 West, north
side, 27S3 west of Eighth Avenue; 4-story
dwelling. 21.10x9S.o; executors SALE
Twenty-third Street. 319. 321 and 323
East. north side $50 - east of second a. AZ. :.
trustees w sale Sold to the stevenson es-
tate for $4,000.
Third Avenue. 545. adjoining northeast
corner Thirty-slx Street; 4story tene-
j. T. Lorenzo for $4,000.
Third Avenue, 575. adjoining southeast
corner Thirty eighth Street; 5-story tene-
ment, 2oxsl; executors sale Sold to j. r.
Lorenzo for $4,000
Catherine Street, 25 n and 27, adjoining
southeast corner Henry Street: 6-story
tenement, 33.11x77.11: executors sale. Sold
to William. Lurie for 100000.
Third Avenue, 5ls, east side 74.l feet
ement. 24.Sxlo0: estate sale. Bid in at
$4,000
Eighty second Street, northwest corner
of Second Avenue; 4-stcry tenement 21.sx
lo0 estate sale. Sold to !. r Lorenzo
tor $3.50
Green street, as and 100. south side,
175 feet east OF Spring Street, two o-story
loft buildings, 5oxi0g. sold to l.. III.
ulrish rs for oI SIC s.a. oea !, zs .o,.n s,s
SO 1o.1 e.-se of Broome Street: story loft
building; voluntary sale. Crtmmins. Sold
70 j. Spencer Smith for client for
$I34,5O0.
st. Nicholas Avenue, southeast corner
1s7th Street: 3-story building. 75xl00 ad
ministrators sale. Knocked down at
$4,000
New-York tribune., 1920-03-24
Standard Oil Company Sells
Arcade on Lower Broadway
Valuable Holding in Same Block With Companv's
headquarters Is in New Hands; Site Will Be I'm
proved With Iall Structure Soon, Is the Story

The Standard Arcade. on lower
Broadway, developed by the Standard
Oil Company several years ago. per
haps the most valuable property in all
New York so improved, has been sold.
heroert l.: Pratt, vice-president Of the
Standard on Company, said last night
tnat ne did not know who bought the
property. The buyer is client Of l.. j.
Phillips Co., who were largely con-
cerned in assembling the pronertv to
the south Of the Standard Oil Com
pany's building, on which the company
Will erect twenty-story addition.
Ihere IS reason to believe that the
days of the Arcade are numbered, and
just as soon as the leases on the build
ing have expired the interesting struc-
true, extending through from Broad
way to News Street. will be removed
and another type of building erected in
ITS place. This is the substance of a
story heard downtown yesterday, and
which also came from Chicago. The
name of the buyer and his plans for
the future Of the property probably
will be made known late this after
noon.
A Valuable Property
The Standard Arcade is three and
four story building, With an opening or
Nou1V ii' INC ceHteT, twenty IeeC VIDE
and seventy-three feet high, spanned
at intervals on each floor. The roof
or the arcade is glass. The floors arc
divided into office space, much Of
which is occupied by the Standard Oil
Company. On the street level and
along the Arcade are stores. The in
come from the building was never suf-
tlcient to pay more than the carry
ing charges if it did this much. The
property, $4,000 square feet in all,
fronting 81.9 feet on Broadway and
7s.9 feet on New Street, with depth
OF l76 feet, is understood to have cost
the Standard Oil Company $1,000 900.
The land is worth good deal moro
now, as property values in that part
of Broadway have moved upward con-
slderably in the last six years, and
especially SO in the last two years.
The sale of the Arcade is significant,
coming as it does SO close on the con-
summation Of purchases and leases for
the realty between the company's
building and Beaver Street, which were
finally concluded last week.
Many Interesting Stores
Previous to the authoritative state
ment OF the activities of the Standard
Oil Company in lower Broadway
rumors were current that the company
was not seeking realty to the south Of
26 Broadway so much as to the north,
and that the plan was to acquire the
property between the Standard Arcade
and the executive building of the COM
pany. This would have necesstated
the, purchase of the twenty-one story
building at AZ Broadway, perhaps the
most spacious office structure down
town, and the seventeen story Hudson
Building. But the statement issued las.
week by Mr.. Pratt covering the COM
pany's acquisitions to the south in
which he denied interest to the north
and the sale of the Arcade property is
evidence that the Standard Oil prefers
New-York tribune., 1920-03-24
Astor Gives Lease
On 4Ath St. Realty
For a Showhouse
Strand Iheater Interest to
Erect s'House of Melody"
Next to the Little e
Theater ON Leasehold

Vincent Astor has leased to Max
Spiegel, vice-president Of the Strand
Thcater Company, as site for the
ter the property at 246 to 258 West
Forty-fourth Street, directly opposite
the Little Theater, for sixty three
years. 1t was negotiated by the H. H.
Gibson Realty Company Inc.
Mr.. Spiegel will get possession Of
the property on May /, when the pres
ent building will be demolished and
the site, 155x100, improved with the
atcr with a seating capacity of 1900,
of which 1000 will be located on the
lower floor.
Mr.. Spiegel will devote the new the
ater to musical production. The thea
ter will be known as the House of
Melody. Mr.. Spiegel acquired on lease
the Fitzgerald Building, on the south
east corner Of Forty-third and Broad
way, in which the George M. Cohan
Theater is located. The lease on the
Cohan theater expires in 1922.