Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1921-12-15

HSI , ktttiHE toiu.
Wen not he keepin' you above tn
hollow half Of a minute. Mister MOI
cross" said the big. bearded frelgh
conductor who acted as spokesman
about this c. S. & w. strike tina
went on today: we amt got no kicl
comm with you. mr. with the com
pany, Mister NorcrOss, but IL look
hike it's up TO us TO do somethin', ans
we didn't want TO do IL without hittin
square out from the shoulder. Their
amt nobody knows yet what's goin
to be done, but whatever II is, We
want you TO know that 1t amt done
ag'inst you mr. the railroad company
The boss had handled wage earnerd
too long not to be able to suspect
what was In the wind.
you men don't want to let your
sympathies carry you too far"
he cautioned. when you take up
another fellows quarrel you want to
be pretty sure that you're not going
10 hit your friends I'm the scrap"
H0skins grinned Understandings,
and ! guess the boss was a little puz-
zled by the mods and winks hat went
around among tile silent members Of
the delegation at least, i know | was.
That's all right" Hoskins said. Be
In the big boss, you've got TO talk
that way. But what | was aimIn' to
say Is that there'l be a train-load r
two OF strlke-breakers a-careerin' along
here In a day r so. and we aIn't fig
urin' on Iettin' 'em get past Portal
City. IL that far"
That's up to you" said Mr.. Nor
cross b%rusquely. IF you start any
thing In the way of a riot"
Excuse me There amt goin' to
be no %riotin', and no company prop
erty mashsd up. Mr.. Van Britt. he"
IL was right here that an odd thing
happened, Con Corrigan. a big two
listed freight engineer standing direct
ly behind Hosklns. reached an arm
around the speakers neck and choked
him so suddenly that Hosklns' sentence
ended In a gasping chuckle. When the
garroting arm was withdrawn the con
ductor looked around sort Of roolishly
and said I'm thinking that's about all
we wanted foasay. amt 1t, boys?" and
the deputation filed out as solemnly
as 1t had come In.
guess Mr.. Norcross wasn't left
wholly ia the dark when the tramp
ing footballs Of the committee died
away In the corridor. That uninten-
tionaL meRtIaaAae Mr. Yam Rrltt,s name
as If 1t might open up some
possibilities, though what they
we're | cnnldnlI Imagine. and / don't
the general manager could,
After that, things rocked along pref
y easy until after dinner. Instead of
right back to the Office from
he club. Mr.. Norcross drlfted into
he s~moking-room and filed a pipe.
n the course Of a few minutes, Major
Sendrick dropped In and pulled up a
know whRt=the talked
bout. but after a little while, when
he boss got up 10 20, | heard him
ay something that gave the key to
most of what had gone before, /
Have you seen or heard anything
I. Collingwood since yesterdays"
E'ss good eva nfator-shook hts head. Z
FheYsfe=teliih1me that he's oven IN
Is rooms at the Billiard, drinkin' him
to death II he wasn't altogether
redemption, sub, he would have
the decency TO get out OF town
efo' he turned loose all hollis that
'ay; he would, for a fact, Graham"
At that, Mr.. Norcross explained In
ist a few words why Collingwood
admit gone-why he couldn't ge.
lhereupon the old Kentuckian looked
than ever
-sFhut thah spells trouble Grahann
is simply invitin' the unde'-
Ikeh. HOWE isn't what you'd call a
angerous a but he is totally ir-
,sponsible. even when he's sobeh."
I'VE ought TO get him away from
was the boss decision. He +,
an added menace While he stays"
| didn't hear what the major said (,
that, because little Rags. Mr.. Per- +.
MS office boy, had Just come in with
note which he was asking me to .
We TO Mr.. Sorcross. I did It; and !,
ter the note had been glanced at, the +,
lief said, kind of bitterly, to the !
ajor:
"You can V fall so far that you r
MT fall a little farther have you :
er remarked that, major7r And then !
went on to explain: Perkins our $
ssert Division superintendent. says 3
at the locals of the various rail- !,
ad labor unions have just notified =
m of the unanimous passage Of a +
ike sote-the strike TO go Into ef-
al midnight. y
"a strike2-on the raiIroadf Why, i
aham, N. you don't mean i'll" :
The men seem to mean it-which r,
much more TO the purpose. They q
G striking In sympathy with the p
s. X. w. employees. / fancy that m
our little experiment in good 6,
lroadfug definitely. ma for punson a.