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Show ---- 4 TH "Now PRINCIPLE MANAGEMEN been earning every day a little more than $1.85 the sort of man that we want to have in our oreA man has come here from Pittsburg, who i per ton for handling ore while we can pay onl cents per ton I think to this man for a job SCIENTIFI Patrick, you have proved to us that you are a high-price man You hav and you are jus shoveling gang offering 4+°; cent 3 O therefore that you had better appl Of course, you know we are very sorry t have you leave us, but you have proved yourself a high-priced man and we are very glad to see you get this chance of earning more money Just remember, however, that at any time in the future, when yo get out of a job, you can always come right back to us. There wil always be a job for a high-priced man like you in our gang here. Almost all of the ore handlers took this advice, and went to Pittsburg, but in about six weeks most of them were again back in BethleThe write hem unloading ore at the old rate of 31% cents a ton had the following talk with one of these men after he had returned I thought we ha ""Patrick, what are you doing back here gotten rid of you. When we got out there Jimm "Well, sir, I'll tell you how it was and I were put on to a car with eight other men. We started to shove After about half an hou the ore out just the same as we do here I saw a little devil alongside of me doing pretty near nothing, so TUnless we get the ore ou said to him, ‘Why don't you go to work He turned to m of this car we won't get any money on pay-day. ‘Well,' I said, ‘that's none o are you? and said, ‘Who i your business'; and the little devil stood up to me and said, ‘You'l be minding your own business, or I'll throw you off this car!" Wel I could have spit on him and drowned him, but the rest of the me put down their shovels and looked as if they were going to back hi up; so I went round to Jimmy and said (so that the whole gang coul hear it), ‘Now, Jimmy, you and I will throw a shovelful wheneve this little devil throws one, and not another shovelful. So w watched him, and only shoveled when he shoveled. - When payday came around, though, we had less money than we got here a Bethlehem After that Jimmy and I went in to the boss, and asked him for a car to ourselves, the same as we got at Bethlehem, but h told us to mind our own business, and when another pay-day cam around we had less money than we got here at Bethlehem, so Jimm and I got the gang together and brought them all back here t work again. When working each man for himself, these men were able to ear higher wages at 3% cents a ton than they could earn when they wer |
