Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-08

ing easy and clipping coupons IN tue
safety-deposlt room Of Broad street
bank"
The boss laughed at that and I'm
telling you right now that was glad
to know that he was still able to laugh.
you've never seen the day when
you wanted to renege Upton, and you
know It," be. hit back. "Think Of the
perfectly good technical education you
were wasting wnen took hold of you
and jerked you out here
"Huhl" said our millionaire; I've
just had two enginemen on the carpet
for running over an old ranchman's
pet cow. They said they couldn't
help it; but / told them that under
the 'public-be-pleaseF policy they'd
got to help It,"
The boss chuckled. 81 believe you'd
Joke at your own funeral, Upton. You
didn't come here to tell me about the
ranchman's pet cow"
mot exactly. ! came to tell you
that Citizens Storage & Warehouse Is
due to have a strike on It's hands. The
management-which seems to have
got itself consolidated in some way
shot out lot of new bosses all along
the line ON the through train last
night, and this morning the entire
, works. elevators, packeries, coal yards
} lumber mills, and everything, are
! posted with notices Of blanket cut
in wages; twenty per cent, fiat, for
I everybody. The news has been trlckling
\ in over the wires all morning; and the
last word is that general strike OF
+ all c. s, & w. employees will go on at
n noon tomorrow"
- "That is move number one" said
e the boss. And then: "You have heard
n that the Hatch people have reached
out and taken in the @. S, VIZ
: "Hornack was telling me something
l. about it; yes"
II ut is true; and the fight is on. You
II see what Hatch is doing. At one
stroke he gets rid of all the local EN-
= ployees of C. S. & W., who have been
drawing good pay and who might make
trouble for him a little later on, ana
fills their places with strike-breakers
who have no local sympathizers."
"But there will be another result
which he may not have counted upon"
Mr. Van Britt put in. 1.-THE blanket
cut serves notice upon everybody that
once more the old strong-arm monopoly
IL in the saddle. The newspapers VIII
fell us about 1t tomorrow morning.
Il Also. good many of them will be
LH asking us what we are going TO 90
n about it; whether we are going 10
Il fight the new monopoly as we did
4 fine old, or stand in with the graft, as
4 our predecessors did"
m 1--WE needn't 60 over that ground
w again--you and !, Upton" said Mr.
Norcross. "Y0u know where l stand
~ But the conditions have changed. we
have been knitted In the back" And
4 with that he gave the stocky little
operating chief a crisp outline of the
new situation precipitated by TIKI
Dunton-C Olllngwood political bribery
Mr.. Van Britt took 1t quietly, as NJ
did most things. sitting with his hands
IN. in his pockets and smiling blandl.
where Hornack had exploded in wrath
w. full profanity. At the wind-up ne said
To. "Old Uncle Breckenridge is one to
many for you, Graham. You can
stand the gaff-this new gan 0
lish Hatch's: and neither can you go be
,es: 80 49,, noo,.,o &c tho accuser of YOU
ha'' president-and hope to hold your Jot
The one thing for you to do Is to loo
YEN up your office and walk out"
We "Upton, If I thought you near
len' that-but I never know when to tax
~ you seriously"
80 oThe two enginemen who ran owe
- the ranchman's pet COW had no sue
-, difficulty, l assure you. And isn't
M good advice? You know, as well as
' do. that Chadwick Is holding you hel
,so by main strength; that you can new
accomplish anything permanent whl
80 Dunton and his cronies are at the stee
d. d. fng-wheel. 1t might be different II "
- had the local backing Of your co
n,a,, | StlNue0Cy-lHe pcOpiO oOAfSN W -
~ Short Line. But you haven't that;
.rSt to date, the people are merely Int
ested spectators"
kind go on, salu inc oO'''
the again.
limo "They have stake in the game
roor- the biggest Of the stakes. as matt
dooi of fact-but it isn't sufficiently 9
,,oss parent to make them climb in a
now fight for you. They are saying, wi
.hon good bit Of reason, that after
What IS said and done, Big Money-W
INV Street-still has the call. and q
con. twenty-four hours may see the Wit
,,nor. thing slump back into graft
rs crooked politics"
;tion at is so true that you might
make reading 1t out of book was the DO
comment And then: whats the
anv. swer?"
lrned MI van DIM siooA nls
wen don't know. If you had money enou
: his to buy the voting control in T. 5.
fipbt you might get somewhere; but as
herl is you're like cat In Hades with
utton claws"
I'm .'Tell me-" said Mr.. NOrcross, at
tele- little pause: you're native \
u,-... a. NOV, bnow this man