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Then I see a sign, 'Non-Union men wanted Big wages. In I goes, and strains my langwidge through a wire net at the cashier. "'I want them big wages, says I. "'What can you do? "'Anything to get the money, says I. 'What does it take to liquidate an assault on a labour leader? "There was a white-haired man in the cage who began to sit up and take notice.
Some of the cross-town cars were beginning to run again, with a policeman on the rear of each; on the Third Avenge line, operated by non-union men, who had not struck, there were two policemen beside the driver of every car, and two beside the conductor, to protect them from the strikers. But there were no strikers in sight, and on Second Avenue they stood quietly about in groups on the corners.
From any comprehensive point of view union and not non-union labor represents the independence of the laborer, because under existing conditions such independence must be bought by association.
And the Unionist labour men were making themselves a nuisance going round the stations burning the grass of squatters who employed non-Union stockmen and shearers in one instance, threatening to burn a woolshed. And there hadn't been any rain on the Leura for a month past, and weather prophets were predicting a drought. It was dreadfully prosaic and boring.
But any private preferences cannot control my public actions. The Government can recognize neither union men nor non-union men as such, and is bound to treat both exactly alike. In the Government Printing Office not many months prior to the opening of the Presidential campaign of 1904, when I was up for reelection, I discovered that a man had been dismissed because he did not belong to the union.
I must have patience." Beaton was saying to Dryfoos, "Pity your Pinkertons couldn't have given them a few shots before they left." "No, that wasn't necessary," said Dryfoos. "I succeeded in breaking up the union. I entered into an agreement with other parties not to employ any man who would not swear that he was non-union. If they had attempted violence, of course they could have been shot.
There were a few exceptions to this rule about one in every fifty applicants, perhaps and they were almost all non-union men, who eagerly and thankfully accepted employment, careless of the sneers, gibes, and threats of the others; and these proved to be, with scarcely a single exception, steady, reliable, honest, and capable men, who soon worked themselves into leading positions.
Finally he managed to gasp, "What does it mean; all this?" "Our association has been notified that Van Praag is having his new music hall built with non-union bricks, and " "Scabs," broke in Mr. Ryan, once more banging the inoffensive music with his stick. "Scabs! We called out our men and they put in scab carpenters.
You idiots, you, said I, 'what do you putter round for, persecuting non-union men, that have as good a right to earn their bread as you, when you might make the whole United States of America a Labour Union? Of course I didn't say that in court." "Oh, how delicious you are, Mr. Putney!" said Mrs. Munger. "Glad you like me, Mrs. Munger," Putney replied.
This early action of the company for a time confused the strike managers, as they could not divine whether Colonel Harris in a fit of despair planned to fence in and close down his mills, or, perhaps, once getting his plant enclosed, purposed to eject all members of labor organizations, and again as in a former strike, attempt to start his plant with non-union labor.
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