The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-20
CHAPTER VII
THE STRIKE

year had passed. and you hardly have known the
town OF Paradise The road paved all the way up
valley and lined with placards big little sale or lease
and shacks and tents which the selling leasing done
eseny you saw derrlcksone right alongside Ellis church,
and another by that hoer of hoe the First Bank
Somebody would buy lot and build house in and
e ooWng week they would sell the house. and the purchaser
would move away and start oil derrick great many
got any farther than the derrcor
au maze the discovery that all the advertising in the world
was not equal to the of tract
GU counted eleven you drove to the west side of the valley
where the Excelsior gusher mad spoued FORTH and from the
of the ridge could fifty belonging to score of differ
en Going east there were dozen before
the ROSS tract ana now some one was prospecting the
far side OF this tract along the slide Rosee where the
Mineral Springs Hotel being built.
The little Watkins arroyo site of village You
counted on sopes and b
tanks down below and toohouses Sheds an Office
ao had quilt the new home OF the Watkins family the
entrance to the place. they had their goats they now
irrigated tract and raised strawberries garden and
ana eggs Tor the company mess In addition to that
they had little stand by the roadside Watkins and
the girls baked pies and cakes and other goodies which dsap
pared down the threats OF oworkers with incredible rapidly
assisted by soft drinks" of vivid you couldn't buy
any smokes at the stand these being contrary Third
Revelation and obanabe at the road
The new bunk-house stood little way back under the
shelter OF some eucalyptus trees had six howerbahs which
were generously paronzed Bunnys great sorrow YOU
seldom anybody the readngroom despite the pretty
smudged by the fingers of oworkers Bunny to find out
why and Paul told him because the to work too
long hours Paul himself as carpenter had eight hour day.
and found time for reading but the o-woers on
shifts twelve hours they every day in the
time handling heavy TOOLS you nothing to get your
supper and lie down and This problem which
Paul was bosscarpenter having charge of all building
operations quite responsibility for fellow quite age
So far they had completed forty shacks
costing about six hundred dollars EACH renting thirty
dollars month with water and electric light No one
knew exactly what these latter could not
determine whether the price fair neither could
the oWorkers but Dad said they houses
which was the business mans determining fairness
But there point upon which Bunny nerfered
WIN energy he didn't see why everything about the
had to be so ugly and certainly something ought done
about these shacks He asked Ruth about
nursery in San Edo and without anything to Dad
incurred bill for hundred young acacia trees tin
can and two hundred climbing each with
up in gunny sack So every was Young
tree with stake beside it, and all along the were
frames made of gas pipe with vine getting climb
1t was Ruths duty month to pull of aborers off
his job and make him soak the the next day
cultivate them and dig the and this
service Ruth was compelled to receive salary of
MONTH and bore the imposing title of superintendent Hti
cultural Operations Bunny would inspect growing plants
and sit in his reading and persuade himself that he
made start social reormer resolving dharmones
tween capital labor about which being taught in the
social ethics" class in school. .soI
ITO be