The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-24
By Upton Sinclair
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trace Of Southern he looked powerful to
oe the treatment he got OF course he couldn't
70 Dea MN up ana Try 10 cripple h but when the same thing
happened him in several different California
conclusions Bunny aghast this any
thing like it, and didn't know what answer-execpt that he
had talk with PAM for he said Your fb bf 't
unions by grafers and parasites you'd ask
him how much he really knows about the Employers Federation
and the kind of who they're doing to us
You find that father has negecng affair of
his union, just of the workers neglect Bunny
had to admit that fair point and when
and found that meeting of the FEEDER
aon but merely paid his questfonwhy
naturally that Bunny respect for Tom Axton
and believe what he said about conditions Paradise and
in the other fields and how rapidly spreading
among the men.
Only yesterday the Victor Oil Company had fired fourteen
who had signed up with the unon the bosses spy among
saf w. .I ~ S iyDouy q cndHce 70 hdng MINI
the organizer 1T will be strike for the three-sht day among
other things; comes your father will have to
slider whether separately own men or to stand
his employers union and let bunch of big rowdies
drag him into trouble You imagine that gave
Bunny think about many discussion he had with
his father and with Paul. and with the teacher class in
social ethics at the Beach City High Schools
The Allies having sea- were engaged in sarv
ing out Germany and the Germans replying the only
weapon they had the submarine The United
TO agree not torpedo passenger vessels
without warming but early the 1917 Ger
mans gave notice that they would longer follow this policy
and everybody saying that have to 90 into
the The German Washington was sent
inant in the current events" classes a school.
To the oil unpatriotc on the part
OF workers to demand the eight hour day and
wages this crisis What?when country was about to de-
fend ITSELF and would before in history But
because they wanted to- but because they might
be the only time they would have to- necessary
assume that the employers giving away they were
getting fancy price for it, and would get price or
better II the country went to war The workers claimed share
were holding meetings all the field and part
February they served notice the employers
demands were granted, there would be a strike.
Three men came to Dad of them old employee
tne others new men All three were young in yearsndeed
were all white Americans This committee held their hats in
their hands and somewhat pale embarrassed
Mined They all liked Mr. Ross was square"
and he must know that their demands
he set the example the other employers granting new
schedule that his work could without Interruption
strike if it would be bound spread of oil
would go at Mr. Ross would gain far than
would have to to the But Dad that he had
Joined the Federation and agreed stand by its decons
would become OF his reputation for squareness he TO
go back his associates in crisis? What he would do
work within the Federation for with the
would drop everything else and down Angel City
what he could accomplish He thought the eight day
fair and he would favor scale adjusted to the of M
ing so that the mems income would be subject to fucua
tons The committee cheerd by these promises there
was Misunderstanding all around.
Left to himself understand that ]. Arnold
probably have taken this advanced position His
his the things he do that
his enabled him to do he would probably gone
his crowd he had done htheto Bunny "a
little ideaist'; Bunny liked the men him
and Dad prouS of that mutual liking, sen-
mental for Bunny where he would being
for himself Furthermore there Paul. who