The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-28

Paul had gone with the strikers SO Bunny learned
Ross had offered keep him there building
that needed DONE carpenters were not on strike
But Paul had thought decided duty lay with
oil workers. they hadn't many educated men among
that of the burdens the day put upon them
nenty temporarily as he might think best Dad had said
there would be hard feelings and Paul might
the strike was over.
Bunny went up to the Rascum place to see Ruth and ask
her about it. The superintendent of Horticultural Operations
had strike with the carpenter they were m
occupying the bungalow and Ruth did the work for mad
he occupied the cabin couldn't get out
here any he sleeping
union headquarters where he worked about twenty hours day
So Meee staying with sister, they spent all their
spare time baking things and old Mr.. Watkins
htched to the same old wagon and carried the
things Paradise they to the strikers They
had closed their stand the Watkins tract there
wasn't nobody there but guards they wouldn't feed no
guards not if they starved So spoke Meee who little
chatterbox and Ruth looked Bunny ebarrass
ment thinking that wasn't proper talk before Bunny
said he wasn't strong for guards himself sort of
sick them the place that supposed his And
eee said the that in charge at their place
bad fellow he had been forester reguar of
them others awful and Pap girls to
go on the road at night they cussed something fierce they
had liquor all the time
There aluring odor of gingerbread the kitchen
Bunny yet unch SO the girls set the little
table, the three down. of scrambled eggs
and potatoes and bread and butter goats ginger
bread and strawberries the plants which out
had been diligently tended by Ruth couldn't to let M
ing things suffer- green Ruth young lady
OF almost eighteen the same Bunny but she
older girls do Her fair hair done up top her
head and her bare longer She always looked
NICE working the Kitchen because then her cheeks
she was competent in her domain and told you
and not mess things trying help She had the
of all the Watkins family her they with can-
did, quiet that seemed the depths
both deception and unkindness impossible
Bunny this time just beginning intense experience
back at homehis first serious love affair." about which
be told before long Eunce Hoyt rich girl compct-
cd to know her sometimes pleasure
But Ruth girl and simple presence soothing
calm and still like Sabbath morning Paul great and
good man. Now Paul had given up his day Job to
help the strikers and Ruth baking strikers
while they had money she would them when they
had no more money she would give it to them.
Meee likewise delighted bake for that
was not her only interest in them The coming to the
Watkins tract had meant vast changes e was
longer to be recognized goat-herd bossonhd
out acquiring capitalization and conversation bright col
ored ribbon in her hair and necklace Of yellow
neck Meee had been the evening before and had
been so excing Eli full-fedged preacher now with
church OF his own and holding services every evening
the glory OF the Lord and great numbers of the strikers
come and grace had been aboundng between
costa manifestations Meee had picked the strike
there had been fight Main drunken guard
had been rude to Mamie Parsons one Of
committee to the sheriff he take either the
liquor the away from his Deputies tomorrow Meee
was going to church aganthere would services all
through the day. and said that Monday operators
were going to bring in skebreakers flowing
on Excelsior Pete and the getting ready stop that
they could-t would be terrible
ITO be coninued)