The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-15


married. you'll find a job.
yeah? And I'll find somebody
already working at 1t. Baby
they're slipping one up on u.s. Inc
automobile contracts have run out
at the plant; that's why the lay
off. They say there'll be no re-
pewal. Most of the plant will be
laid off; it started last week
There amt that many jobs IN the
metal trades in town to give US
all work"
"There'n be work always 1or
the good ones"
He grinned. you think I'm
pretty good, don't you"
Il know it"
He laughed. IF it wasn't for
the price of food I'd make you
quit and stay home with me-"
"Ohw she said. "And be to-
gether all the time, every min
ute?"
"Be together he said, looking
at her. He kissed her, and they
were together for an instant, hun
gritty, always hungrily and Joy
ously. Then she broke away with
a cry and ran to the stove to at
tend to a smell of burning.
He watched her. If he had her
efficiently, he'd he a good one"
for whom there are always jobs
Whether the moment demanded a
baby or a woman or a mother OF
housewife, she filled the bill, in
stantly, always. He had no kick
coming. But he wished ne pos
sesSed her secret.
Joc's doubts about the job stu
alton were well founded. Imper.
ceptibly there had come creep
ing change owe rthe world OF
work and wages. The humble
ones who did the work and drew
the wages eonld not be expected
to understand it; blithely they
went thier accustomed ways un
til suddenly and incomprehensi
bly, their work was taken from
them. A sob" is one thing
work" another. One could Away:
find a job, of ordinary: jobs were
small individual segments OF
work, which was an abstraction
an intangible reality, a philo
sophie concept in the steady light
of which all life as long as one
could remember had been con
Quoted. The cessation, the end OF
work, was like the end Of al
theology, the Punishment of god
1t left a vacuum.
Joe found job, two week.
after taking his time at the plant
1t was rush job in small fac
tory, and it lasted week. H'
found another the following
month, which lasted half week
He obtained few days work
here and there, day by day. Their
at last that meagers trickle from
the fountain of subsistence ceas
ed, and there was no more wori
to be had. He looked, inquired
waited, expectant, hopeful, an'
there was no more work TO d.
had
This passage of time and thu
shift of evil circumstances had al
inevitable effect on the household
of Terry and Joe Murray. 1t i
swiftly told, but slow and grind
: ing in the actual adjustment, JUS
as it. is swiftly told that automo
bile bodies were no longer made
because automobiles abrupt,
ceased to be. assembled, becaus
automobiles gradually ceased t.
sell, to people who imperceptbl,
ceased to, find means. of earning
the money to huy- them. TER,
and Joe cut all small extrava
gances; cut all living costs, live
on her. small wage, putting moth
ing now in the hank. Then tina
small wage was insufficient, an,
they drew on the bank, and tn
little house in Gardendale recedet
dimly in their vision. There wa
talk of shutting down the lac
min till better times, and thel
fright, assailed them.
Life was playing them crue
trick: life, instead of going for
ward, however haltingly lif
was going back, Back with in
creasing momentum into a worl
from which they had escaped.
Ito be continued)
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