The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-17

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-One iron.
BILE about unemployment is tbor.
are two sides to every Question
and if it was like you could lust
give them a JOB and they wouId
take off their coat and 60 to vor,
that would be one thing, but soma,
times it works out the other wa,
Like this guy, he comes around
and says he is an elevator iockv
but they made him join the union
b e e, otherwise, George
Scalise's gorillas would picket tba
spot, so the boss says he cant
stand the heat, because then tbs
teamsters won't bring goods to and
from the plant, so my friend, he
joins the union. But he is an in.
dependent dummy, and so one dav
when the union agent comes
around to put the bite on him for
some tickets to a benefit for the
boys my chum starts to denounca
him fearlessly, and the ape savs
all right, that will cost him a saw
for willfully retarding the growth
of the union by word, deed and
example. Our boy doesn't want ia
pay, but it is warm in the elevator
and cold outside, so he gathers up
10 bucks and pays the fine, but he
is pretty sore, and he goes around
with a brick in his hand trusting
that some day he will draw a bead
on Scalise or one of his balloons.
Unemployed
AS it turns out, after a few
months Tom Dewey puts little
George over a barrel and our
friend comes blowing the whistle
like Benny Goodman-only louder
and they send Scalise away 10
college, and our friend is full Of
cheer. By this time, however, he
is a first-class private in the army
of the unemployed, because he
again retarded the growth of the
union in this manner, and when
you ask him what he holds he can
only say, mo pair"
Well, when a guy is a standup
guy like that and fights those ba.
boons without protection and blows
his job you want to help, so there
is a big shot in the real estate
thing, and he says he certainly
will do his best to get him a job,
as that courageous kind of citizen.
ship should be encouraged. Some
of those babs are plenty mean, es.
pecially against a poor loner with
no influence, and after a while,
sure enough, what do you know?
The real estate mugg calls up and
says send our chum around; he
thinks he can put him to work,
By this time the monkey has
checked out of his room, however,
and it takes several hours chasing
around town, but finally he is sur
rounded in a terrible old brown
stone fleabag, where it smells in
the hall like they don't bury Their
dead or don't even bother to put
them in kipper.
Our boy certainly is in deep por
erty from the look and smell Of
where he puts on the snore, but he
is out of town just at present, 50
we chase him up by wire and tell
him to scuffle on back and get IN
touch with Mr.. So-and-So, and think
no more about it until today.
Gives Him Job
Well, then, today Mr.. So-and-So
sends a note, and it seems he
passed the word to a friend in the
real estate thing, and this friend
sends for the monkey and wants to
put a suit on him and give him
job riding up and down. But Goes
our boy swoon with delight to gel
off the street and establish rela'
tons with a payroll? If you think
so you are just leaping crazy
First, our boy demands to know
who gives this company his name
and he is boiling mad becauss
they have been messing in his pr
vate affairs, figuring that is very
humiliating to have to get blao0e'
around town, practically like 1t Wa'
on page one of all the papers, thai
he was out of work. Furthermore,
he doesn't believe they have 60
this job for him, but thinks 1t y
just a gag, and then he accuses
the employment clerk of spying Oh
him, because hardly anypoo'
knows where he lives and, otheP
wise, how did they find out?
He is so indignant over this IL.
reference with his private life us'
by now the clerk turns him oVe.
to the superintendent, who explain.
again that they only want to CIV
him a job in recognition OF III
way he practically took his lie u
his hands but he says he is a nss
man in a free country and noooG!
is going to go around spying OIL IL.
private life-job or no joD-'so
hell with them and their eleVa,ol
and, anyway, he is practically u.
uged with offers, and it IS JuJS''
question which one to take. -.
So, you see, sometimes to g.
the straight of it about unenplH.
ment you have to get the QUIZ.
side of the story, because peopJ
aren't just cattle but all klhus
individuals with pride and tel!pst
ament, and you have to hail0
them just exactly right.
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