Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-04-10


went 10 tho mother she showed them
n place IN the front part Of the bible
Nhcre his birthday waA given aH the 5iat
Of August. 1888. which would cntitlc
him Ia foil pay. Then the mining Hu.
srlntcndcnt went a. the school records
ana they showed that the hoy WIS born
IN 1897. In 1898 and In 1899. which, ~
course WIS nm inpossibllIiy.
\ TIE Miners Strike
! Al that occurred two az three years
ago. and that hnh been lantcrcd hack
and forth between the mine owners
organization and the mine workers or
ganlmtion. and II was agreed that ~
soon as they foaInd out how old the
lbuy was, when hr became nineteen they
would pay him the amount due him
In the meantime. the boy and his fam
Iily moved down into Oklahoma some
where. hut MIR. Hewitt hid been making
these threats that he would show us
That We did not have any law that
could reach him and he would call q
strike. lie called the strike and alleged
that Az a reason. lie has hanging "a
him a jail sentence ~ u year for calling
the strike.
Result ~ Trial
After the trial. the Court ~ Industrial
l.cl1tiuhs undertook Ia find out how
old III" boy WIS. II was all about that.
the ono au"Filun In the whole cnsc was
the ago 81 the hoy. We found that his
fan,ly hal moved away and we didn't
know shcrc they were. hut We found
the n,sEhor lady who had officiatcd
NJ the birth ~ the hoy. We suhpocnaed
her. mud she testified that she was
there and the hoy was properly born.
II WAS hot weather 1897 ur ss or some.
whete along In there. That II all she
kn"w about Il. hut she said the god.
father 81 this boy was still there and
mlyl'c he would know. We subpocnncd
the godfather. The family was Cath.
ollie ami the godfather was AN ancient
Aus,ri'i IN who walked with cane and
had Dc rn miner In his day Hc tcsti.
fled la his broken English that he was
PAT the christening. the baby was about
two W .oks old, ho had known his par.
pnts In. Austria. this WIS tho first child.
but he, didn't remember whether II was
mcmls II was hot weather and some ~
M NJ stlran men were sitting out under
~" shade ~ tree aud We had Just
heard OF the murder ~ Francis 10.
Eeph's woman and We wished that Il
had been the old man" So We said 10
the clerk. Go over 10 the city library
see II YOU EN- find any encyclopedia
that tells When the empress ~ Austria
was murdered and In n little while he
came back with the record thu, ahc was
murdered AT Geneva on the 10th ~
September. 1898. Tho boy was right
aud the company owed him the hack
pny and We ordered the company 10 pay
IL. They did Jay II and the men went
hack To- work.
\ little ease like that could have been
brought In the Justice Court and, In
fact they could have found out tho nc.
tual aye ~ that boy ns well M we could.
They called out 200 men whose earnings
arc more than $500 day. kent them
out twelve days. making loss ~ ii2..
oo" In wages over that little miserable
thing.
Court Functions
! related that Just 10 show you n NJ.
lie bit about how the court functions
and also Ia show you what little. trivial
things they call strikes over.
am glad you had that other speaker:
! enjoyed him more than YOU did.
want To- say just ono thing In con.
clusion. A great Englishman. about
goo ar 100 years ago. said that the gov.
crnmcnt Of England, It's king. Its House
of Lords. II House 81 Commons. its
army. It's navy. It's police force. all the
OF the government, were
maintained for one purpose and ono
only. and that was To get twelve honest
men In the jury box. There IL a big
point In that because In that day the !
jury and the court were about the only !
protection 81 the life. liberty aud the |
property ~ the citizens but that dny |
is gone by. What I want 10 say 20 you |
is that the government 81 the United |
States. the President. tho Congress. the |
Army. the Navy. and the Department |
nf Agriculture and all the Departments, |
are kept and maintained for one pur.
pose. one great, prime purpose. and !
that Is To make II possible that every /
child born under tho Stars and Stripes
may be- nurturcd In a decent home. zap !
plnusc,. Underneath this kansas In
dustrial law and underneath the whole
is this facts that II YOU arc
to make Il possible that the future |
citizens ~ this country may 10 rcarsi
under proper conditions, the public does
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