Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1921-11-24

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The boss laughed at that, and Fm
letting you right now that | was glad
TO know that he was still able 10 laugh
-You've never seen the day when
you wanted TO renege, Upton. and you
know H." he hit back. Think OF the
perfectly good technical education you
were wasting wuen | took hold of you
and terked you u here.
Huh !" said our. millionaire: 1--WE
just had two enginemen on the carpet
for running over an old ~ranchman's
pet COW They said they couldn't
help IT; but I told thenA that under
the 'pubiic-be pleased policy. they'd
got to help it,
The boss ehuckled. Il believe you'd
Eioke at yonr nfnneralLptan-YaaA
didn't come here 10 Tell me ahnntthaL
ranchman's pet cow"
mot exactly. l came 10 tell yox
that Citixens' Storage & Warehouse 10
due TO have a strike on It's hands. The
management-which seems 10 have
got itself consolidated In some way
shot out q iof 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 q blanket cut
In wages; twenty per cent. fiat. for
everybody. The news has been tricklins
In over the wires all morning and the
last word is that a general strike OF
all c.. s. & w. employees will 20 on at
moo tomorrow"
THAT is move number one said
the boss And then: You have heard
that the Hatch people have reached
out and taken In the C. S. X W."
.Hornack was telling me something
about 1t: yes"
1T Is true and the fight is on. You
see what Hatch is doing. AT one
stroke he gets rid of all the local ern-
ployees OF C. s. & w, who have been~.
drawing good pay and who might make
trouble for him a little later on. and
fills their places with strike-breakers
who have no local sympathlzers."
But there will be another result
which he may not have counted upon"
AIR. Van Britt put IN. ~The blanket
cut serves notice upon everybody that
once more the old strong-arm monopoly
is In the saddle. The newspapers will
tell us about IL tomorrow morning.
Also. a good many OF them will be
asking us what we are going to do
about II; whether we are going 10
fight the e monopoly as we did
our predecessors did,
1--WE needn't go over that ground
again-you and /, Upton" said Mr..
Norcross. "You know where | stand.
But the conditions have changed. We
have been knitted In the back" And
that he gave the stocky little
operating chief a crisp outline of the
lew situation precipitnfed by the
.unton- Coilingwood political bribery. .
Afr. Van Britt took IL quietly. as he
lid most things. sitting with his hands
n his pockets and smiling blandIy
where Hornack had exploded In wrath
profanity. At the wind-up he said:
"OId Uncle Breckenridge is one too
many for yeus Graham. You can't
the gaf-thIs new gam OF
4atch's; and neither can you go be
ore the people as the accuser of your
'residenf-and hope TO hold your job.
The one thing for you TO do is to lock
- your office and walk out"
"Upton, If I thought you meant
hat-but / never know when 10 lake
on seriously"
THE two enginemen who ran over
rancliman's pet COW had no such
ificulty, | assure you. And isn't IL
God advice7 You know. MS well as
that Chadwick is holding you here
y main strength that you car never
ccompfish anything permanent while
and his crenIes are at the steer
lg-wheel. II might be different Ii you
the local backing of you con
+~ituency-the people served by the :
hort Line. But you haven't that; up
date. the people are merely inter-
sted spectators
.tio on" said the boss. y frownina
They have a stake In the game
le biggest of the Stakes as a matter
fact-but 1t isn't sufficiently APP
srent 20 make them climb In and
zht for you They are saying. with
good bit of reason. that. after all
said and done. Big Money-WalI
treet-still has the call. and any
genty-four hours may see the whole
ing slump back into graft and
,ooked politics"
1T Is so true that you might be
aiding II out of q book" was the boss
,ument. And then Whats the an
YER 2.
Mr.. Van Britt shook his head. ."
mt know. II you had money enough
buy b voting control In r. y. L.
M miwhf got -sauewbprp buf AS IL