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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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JULY 7, !**>.
“JUNGLE” EXPOSES MOW WORKERS ARE OPPRESSED BY THEIR EMPLOYERS
UPTON SINCLAIR’S GREAT NOVEL REVEALS MANY HIDDEN CRIMES
GIRL’S STORY DROVE
FATHER TO FRENZY
CHAPTER XV.—CONTINUED.
Her word* fairly drove him wild,
He tore hla hands loose and flung her
off. “Answer me," he cried. "I say—
answer me!”
She sank down upon the floor, be
ginning to cry again. It was like list
ening to the moan of a damned souL
' and Jurats could not stand It. He
smote his flat upon the table by his
side and shouted agsln at her, "An
swer me!"
She began to scream aloud, her voice
like the voice of some wild beast. "Ah!
ah! I can't! I can't do It!"
"Why can’t you do It?" he shouted.
“I don't know bowl"
He sprang and caught her by the
arm, lifting her up and glaring Into her
face. "Tell me where you were last
night!" he panted. "Quick, out with
it!"
Then she began to whisper, one word
at a time: "I—was In—a house—down
town."
"What bouse? What do you mean?"
She tried to hide her eyes away, but
he held her. "Hiss Henderson's house,''
she gasped.
He did not understand at drat. "Miss
Henderson's house?" he echoed. And
then suddenly, as In an explosion, the
horrible truth burst over him, and he
reeled and staggered back with
scream.
An Instant later he leaped at her, as
she lay gTovollIng at his feet. He
seized hor by the throat “Tell mel"
he gasped, hoarsely. “Quick I Who
took you to that place?"
She tried to get away, making him
furious; he thought It was fear, or
the pain of hla clutch—he did not un-
I demand that It was the agony of her
j ahame. Still she answered him: "Con-
fnor."
"Connorl" he gasped, "who la Con-
I nor?"
; "The boss," she answered. "The
I man”—
’ He tightened hla grip. In hla frenzy,
and only when he saw her eyes closing
• did he realize that he waa choking her.
| Then he relaxed his fingers and
! crouched, waiting until she opened her
f lids again. IDs breath beat hot Into
■ her face.
"Tell me," he whispered, at last;
' "tell me about It."
She lay perfectly motionless, and
he had to hold his breath to catch her
words. "I did not want—to do It," she
said; "I tried—I tried not to do It. I
only did It—to save us. It was our
' only chance."
Again for a space there was no
sound but his panting. Ona's eyes
closed, and when she spoke again she
did not open them. “Ho told me—he
would have me turned off. He told me
—we would—we would all of us lose
our places. We could never get any-
thing to do—here—again. He—he
meant It—he would have ruined us."
Jurats' arms were shaking so that
he could scarcely hold himself up, and
lurched forward now and then as he
listened. "When—when did this be
gin?" be gasped.
“At the very first," she said. She
spoke as If In a trance. “It was all-
it was their plot—Miss Henderson's
plot. She hated me. And he—he want
ed me. He used to speak to me—out
on the platform. Then he began to—
to make love to me. He offered me
money. He begged me—he sold he
loved me. Then he threatened me. He
knew all about us, he knew we would
starve. He knew your boas—he knew
Marija's. lie would hound us to death,
he said—then he said If I would—If I—
we would all of ua be sure of work—
always."
A moment ago her face had been
ashen gray, now It was scarlet. 8he
was beginning to breathe hard again.
Jurats made not a sound.'
“That was two months ago. Then
ha wanted me to come—to that house.
He wanted me to stay there. He said
all of us—that we would not have to
work. He made me come there—In tho
evenings. I told you—you thought I
Jwaa at the factory. Then—one night
; it snowed, and I couldn't get back.
i And last night—the cars were stopped.
It waa such a little thing—to ruin us
all."
All this aha had said without a
quiver; sho lay still as death, not an
.eyelid moving. And Jlirgts, too, said
•not a word. He lifted himself by the
bed, and stood up. He did not stop for
another glance at her, but went to the
door and opened It. He did not see
Eltbleta. crouching terrified In the cor.
ner. He went out, hatless, leaving the
street door open behind him. The In
stant his feet were on the sidewalk he
broke Into a run.
He ran like one possessed, blindly,
furiously, looking .neither to the right
nor left. He waa on Ashland avenue
before exhaustion compelled him to
slow down, and then, noticing a car,
he made a dart for It and drew him
self aboard. Ills eyes were wild and
his hair flying, and he was breathltfg
hoarsely, like a wounded bull; but the
people on the car did not notice this
■■ - it urm -
.1 Jur
gls smelt should exhibit an aspect to
correspond. They began to give way
before him as usual. The conductor
took his nickel gingerly, with the tips
of his fingers, and then left him with
the platform to himself. Jurats did
not even notice It—his thoughts were
far aaray. Within his soul It was like
a roaring furnace; he stood waiting,
waiting, crouching as If for a spring.
He had some of his breath back
when the car came to the entrance of
the, yards, and so he leaped off and
atarted again, racing at full speed. Peo
ple turned and stared at him, but he
saw no one. There waa the factory,
and he bounded through the doorway
and down the corridor. He knew the
room where On a worked, and he knew
Connor, the boss of the loading gang
outside. He looked for the man as he
sprang Into the room.
The truckmen were hard at work,
loading the freshly packed boxes and
barrels upon the cars. Jurgts shot one
swift glance up and down the platform.
The man was not on It. But then,
suddenly, he heard a voice In the cor
ridor, and started for It with a bound.
In an Instant more he fronted the boss.
He was a big, red-faced Irishman,
coarse featured and smelling of liquor.
He saw Jurgls as he crossed the
threshold, and turned white. He hesi
tated one second, as If meaning to run,
and In the next his assailant was upon
him. He put up his hands to protect
his face, but Jurgls, lunging with all
the power of his arm and body, struck
him fairly between the eyes and
knocked him backward. The next mo
ment he was on top of him, burying
his fingers In his throat.
To Jurgts this man's whole presence
reeked of the cr|me he had committed;
the touch of. his body was madness to
him. It set every nerve of him a-tremb-
Ilng; It aroused all the demon In his
soul. It had worked Its will upon Ono,
this great beast—and now ho had It,
he had It! It was his turn tfow!
Things swam blood before him, and he
lllllll* ■WWH viutrti VCIVIO stasis, utiu no
screamed aloud In his fury, lifting hla
victim and smashing hla head upon
the floor.
The place, of course, was In an up-
roar, women fainting and shrieking,
and men rushing In. Jurgls was so
bent upon his task that he knew
nothing of this, and scarcely realized
that people were trying to Interfere
with him; It was only when half a
dozen men had seized him by the legs
nnd shoulders und were pulling at hint
that he understood tlint he was losing
his prey. In a flash he had bent down
nnd sunk his teeth Into the man's
cheek.
They got him down upon the floor,
dinging to him by his arms nnd legs,
and still they could hardly hold him.
Hr fought like a tiger, writhing and
twisting, half flinging them off, and
stnrtlng toward bis unconscious enemy.
But yet others rushed In, until there
was u little mountain of twisted limbs
nnd bodies, heaving nnd tossing, and
working Its way nbout the room. In
the end by their sheer weight they
choked the breath out of him, nnd
then they carried him to the company
police station, where he lay still until
they hnd summoned a patrol wagon
to take him away.
CHAPTER XVI.
When Jurgls got up again he went
quietly enough. He was exhausted
and half dazed, and besides he saw the
blue uniforms of the policemen. He
drove In a patrol wngon with hnlf a
dozen of them watching him; keeping
as far away as possible, however, on
account of the fertiliser. Then he
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
The story of 'The Jungle," Upton Sinclair's novel, which caused tho govern-
meat Investigation Into the methods employed by the beef trust, has Its origin
In an m.tunl l'«rkln*town romance.
A simple-minded coterie of Llthnnlsrs arrive In Chicago, seeking employment,
and are c,inducted to I'arklngtown by a friend. Jnrgts, a giant In streagth. Id
betrothed to One, sod the drat chapter tells of the wedding,In sll the groieso
hicks they le
Martin discovers that the rorelsdy Is cheating her. by taking money
I mould have gone to the worker. She protests violently, and Is discharged. r
y she obtains a man’s work at half the pay of a man. A baby comes to One
t nd Jurgls, but the little mother can take only a week off. fcnrlng the loss of
er Job.
Just as Ons and Jnrxla pay Merlin what they owe her. Jurgls tarns his ankle
and Is laid np for uioutps. Ills nature begins to dungs. Ite becomes cross and
savage with pain, starvation sures the family In the face. The smaller children
are.sent out Into the snow to sell papers.
Finally Jurgls begins work In the fertiliser plant-tb" deadliest of all-end
Elzbleta slaves In the sausage stuffing department. The little l or. of the family
learn to swear, drink and smoke, tlmdually the grind throws the .family Into
constant stupor. They Ulk little—only eat what they can, sleep when they can,
and work, ft seems to them, always. "Yesterday's Installment told of the almost
Inrredlblo conditions In the fertiliser plant, and goes deeper Into the criminal
treatment of employees, and the adulteration of the "meat.'' The fntnre Ilea dark,
hopeleaa, liefore them. Only death can be seen nt tho end of the vlata. And
stood bsfors tho sergeant’s desk nnd
gavs his name and address, and saw
a charge of assault and battery en
tered against him. On his way xn bis
call a burly policeman cursed him be
cause hs started down tho wrong cor
ridor, and then added a kick when he
was not quick enough; nevertheless,
Jurgls did not even lift his eyes—he
had lived two years and a half In
Packlngtown, and he knew what the
police were. It was as much os a
man's very life was worth to anger
them, hers In their Inmost lair; like
aa not a dozen would pile on to him at
once, and pound his face Into a pulp.
It would be nothing unusual If he got
bis skull cracked In the melee—In
which cose they would report that be
had been drunk and had fallen down,
and there would be no one to know
the difference or to care.
So a barred door clanged upon Jur-
tls and he sat down upon n bench and
juried his face In his hands. He was
alone; he hod the afternoon and all
of the night to himself.
At flrst he was like a wild beast
that has glutted Itself; he was In a
dull stupor of satisfaction. He had
done up the scoundrel pretty well—not
as well as he would have If they had
given him a minute more, but pretty
well, all the same; the ends of his An
gers were atlll tingling from their con
tact with the fellow's throat. But then,
little by little, as his strength came
back and his senses cleared, he began
to see beyond his momentary gratifica
tion; that he had nearly killed the
boss would not help Ona—not the hor
rors that she hnd borne; nor the mem
ory that would haunt her all her days.
It would not help to feed her and her
child; she would certainly lose her
place, while he—what was to happen
to him God only knew.
Half the night he paced the floor,
wrestling with this nightmare; and
when he was exhausted he lay down,
trying to sleep, but finding instead,
for the flrst time in hie life, that hla
brain was too much tor him. In the
cell next to him was-a drunken wlfe-
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maniac. At midnight they opened the
station house to the homeless wan
derers who were crowded about the
door, shivering In the winter blast, and
they thronged Into the corridor outside
of the cells. Some of them stretched
themselves out. on the bare stone floor
and fell to snoring; others sat up,
laughing and talking, cursing and
quarrelling. The air waa fetid with
their breath, yet In spite of this some
of them smelt Jurgls and called down
tho torments of hell upon him, while
ho lay In a fnr corner of hts cell,
suffered for this house, how ipuch they
hnd all of them suffered! It was their
one hope of respite, as long as they
lived; they had put all their money
Into It—and they were working people,
poor peAple, whose money was their
strength, the very substance of them,
body and soul, the thing by which they
lived and for lack of which they died.
And they would lose It all; they
would be turned out Into the streets,
and have to hide In some Icy garret,
and live or die as beat they could!
Jurgls hnd all the night—and many
more nights—to think about this, and
he saw the thing In Its details; he
lived It alL as If he were there. They
would sell their furniture, and then run
Into debt at the'stores, and then be re
fused credit; they would borrow a lit
tle from Bzedvllasez, whoso delicates
sen store was tottering on the brink of
rilln; the neighbors would help them a
little—poor, sick Jadvyga would bi'
a few spare pennies, as she always
when the people were starving, and
Tamosslus Kusletka would bring
them the proceeds of a night’s
Addling- So they would struggle
to hang on until he got out of
Jail—or would they,know that he waa
In Jail, would they be able to find out
anything about him? Would they be
allowed to see him—or would It be u
K rt of his punishment to be kept In
iterance about their fate?
Hie mind would hang upon the worst
possibilities; he saw Ona III and tor
tured, MarIJa out of her place, little
Stanlslovas unable to get to work for
the snow, the whole family turned out
on the street. God Almighty! would
they actually let them lie down In the
street and die? Would there be no
help even then—would they wander
about In the snow till they (rose?
Jurgls had never seen any dead bodies
In the streets, but he had seen people
evicted and disappear, no one knew
where; and though the city had a re
lief bureau, though there waa a char
ity organization society In the stock
yards District, In all his life there he
had never heard of either of them.
beater and In the one beyond a yelling They did not Advertise their activities.
no my in u im uui iiui ui ms ten,
counting the throbblnge of the blood
In hla forehead.
They had brought him Ills supper,
which was “duffers and dope"—being
hunks of dry bread on a tin plate, and
coffee, called “dope" • because It waa
drugged to keep the prisoners quiet.
Jurgls had not known this, or he would
have swallowed the stuff In despera
tion; as It wns, every nerve of him was
n-qulver with shame and rage. To
ward morning the place fell silent, and
he got up and began to pace nil cell;
and then within the soul of him then
rose up a fiend, red-eyed and cruel,
and tore out the strings of his heart
It was not for himself that he suf
fered—what did n man who worked
In Durham's fertiliser mill care about
anything that the world might do to
him! What was any tyranny of prison
compared with the tyranny of the past,
of the thing that had happened and
could not be recalled, of the memory
that could never be effaced! The hor
ror of It drove him mad; he stretched
out his arms to heaven, crying out for
deliverance from It—and there was no
deliverance, then was no power even
In heaven that could undo the past. It
wns a ghost that would not down; It
followed him, It seised upon him and
beat him to the ground. Ah. if only
he could have foreseen It—but then he
would have foreseen II, If he had not
been u fool I He smote his hands upon
him forehead, cursing himself because
he had not stood between her and a
fate every one knotv to be so common.
He should have taken her away, even
If It were to lie down and die of starv
ation In the gutters of Chicago's
streets! And now—oh. It could not be
true; It was too monstrous, too hor
rible! .
It was a thing that could not bs
faced; a new shuddering seised him
every time he tried to think of It. No,
there was no bearing the load of It,
there was no living under IL There
would be none for her—he knew that
he might pardon her. might plead with
her on his knees, but she would never
look him In the face again, she would
never bo bis wife again. The shams
of It would kill her—there could be
no other deliverance, and It was best
that she should die.
That was simple and clear, and yet,
with cruel Inconsistency, whenever he
escaped from this nightmare It was to
suffer and cry out at the vision of Ona
starving. They had put him In Jail,
and they would keep him here a long
time, years maybe. And Ona would
surely not go to work again, broken
nnd crushed as she was. And Elzbtata
and MarIJa. too, might lose their places
—If that hell-fleml Connor chose to set
to work to ruin them, they would all
be turned out. And even If he did not.
they eoulfl not live—even If the boys
left school again, they could surely not
pay all the bills without him and Ona.
They had only a few dollars now—
they had Ju»t paid .the rent of the
house a week ago, and that after It
was two weeks overdue. So It would
be due again In a week! They would
have no money to pay It then—and
thev would lose the house, after all
their long, heart-breaking struggle.
Three limes now the agent had warned
him that he would not tolerate another
^Perhaps It was very base, of Jurgls
to be thinking about the house when
he had the other unspeakable thing to
flit bis mind; yet, how much ho had
hnvfng more calls than they could.at
tend to without that.
So on until morning. Then tie had
another ride In the patrol wagon, along
with the drunken wifebeater and the
maniac, several “plain drunks" and
“saloon fighters,'' a burglar and two
men who had been arrested (or steal
ing insat from the packing houses.
Along with them he was driven Into a
large, white-walled room, stale-smell
ing and crowded. In front, dpoii a
raised platform behind a rail, sat a
stout, florid-faced personage, with" a
nose broken out In purple blotches.
Our friend realised vaguely that he
wns about to be tried. He wondered
what for—whether or not his victim
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might be dead, and if to, what they
would do with him. Hang him, per
haps, or beat him to death— (othlng
would have surprised Jurgts, who knew
little of the laws. Yet he had picked
up gossip enough to hare It occur re
him that the loud-voiced man upon the
bench might be the notorious Justice
Callahan, about whom the people of
Packlngtown spoke with bated breath.
"Pat" Callahan—"Growler" Pat, as
he had been known before he ascend
ed the bench—had begun life as I
butcher boy and a bruiser of local rep
utation; he had gone Into politics al
most as soon as he had learned to talk,
and had held two offices at once before
ha was old enough to vote. If Scully
wns tho thumb, Pat Callahan was the
flrst finger of the unseen hand where
by the packers held down the people
of the district. No politician In Chi
cago ranked higher In their confidence,
he had been at It a long time—had
been the business agent In the city
council of old Durham, the self-made
merchant, away back In the early
days when the whole city of Chicago
had been up at auction. “Growler"
Pat had given up holding city offices
very early In his career—caring only
for party power, and giving the rest of
his time to superintending his dives
and brothels. ,•
Of late years, however, since his
children were growing up. he had be
gun to value respectability, and had
himself made a magistrate, a position
for which he was admirably fitted, be
cause of hts strong conservatism and
his contempt for "foreigners."
Jurgls sat gazing about the room for
an hour or two'; he was In hopes that
some • one of the family would come,
but In thle he was disappointed. Fin
ally, he was led before the bar, and a
lawyer for the company appeared
against him. Conner was under the
doctor's care, the lawyer explained
briefly, and If His Honor would hold
the prisoner for a week "Three
hundred dollars,” said His Honor
promptly.
Jurgls was staring from the Judge
to the lawyer In perplexity. “Have
you any one to go on your bond?” de
manded the Judge and then a clerk
who stood at Jurgls’ elbow explained
to him what this melnt. The latter
shook his head, and before he real
ized what had happened the police
men were leading him away again.
They took him to a room where other
prisoners were waiting, and here he
stayed until court adjourned, when he
had another long and bitterly cold ride
In a patrol wagon to the county Jail,
which Is on the north side of the city,
and nine or ten miles from the stock-
yards.
Here they searched Jurgls, leaving
him only his money, which consisted
of 15 cents. Then they led him to a
room and told him to strip for a bath,
after which he had to walk down a
long gallery, past the grated cell doors
of the Inmates of (he Jail. This waa
a great event to the latter—the dally
review of the new arrivals, all stark
naked, and many And diverting were
the comments. Jurgls was required to
stay In the bath longer than any one,
In the vain hope of getting out of him
a few of his phosphates and acids. The
prisoners roomed two In a cell, but
that day there was one left over, and
he waa the one.
The cells wars In tiers, opening upon
galleries. Hts cell was about 6 feet
by 7 In else, with a atone floor and a
heavy wooden bench built Into It.
There wae no window—the only light
came from windows near the root at
one end of the court outside. There
were two bunks, one above the other,
eaoh with a straw mattress and a pair
of gray blankets—the latter stiff as
boards with tilth, and alive with fleas,
bedbugs and lice. tVhen Jurgts lifted
up the mattrese he discovered beneath
It a layer of scurrying roaches, al
most as badly frightened as himself.
Here they brought him more "duff
ers and dope," with the addition of a
bowl of soup. Many of the prisoners
had their meals brought In from a res
taurant, but Jurgls had no money for
that. Some had books to read and
cords to play, with candles to.burn by
night, but Jurgls waa all alone In the
darkness and silence. He could not
sleep again; there was the same mad
dening procession of thoughts that
lashed him like whips upon his naked
back. When night fell he was pacing
up and down his cell like a wild beast
that bgeaka Its teeth upon the bars of
WHOLE FAMILY RUINED
BY BRUTALITY OF BOSS
shown him an old valentine that she
had picked up In a paper store for
three cents—dingy and shop-worn, but
with blight colors, and figures of an
gels and doves. She had wiped all the
specks off this and was going to set It
on the mantel, where the children could
see It. Great sobs shook Jurgls at
this memory. They would spend their
Christmas In misery and despair, with
him In prison and Ona 111 and their
home In desolation. Ah, It was too
cruel! Why at least had they not left
him alone! Why, after they had shut
him In Jail, must they be ringing
Christmas chimes In his ears!
But no, their bells were not ringing
for him—their Chrlatmap was not
meant for him; they were simply not
counting him at all. He was of no
consequence—he was flung aside, like
a bit of trash, the carcass of some
animal. It was horrible, horrible! His
wife might be dying, his baby might be
starving, his whole family might be
perishing In the cold—and all the while
they were ringing their Christmas
chimes! And the bitter mockery of
>11 this was punishment for him!
They put him In a "place where the
snow could not beat In. where the cold
could not eat through his bones; they
brought him food and drink—why. In
the.name of heaven. If they must pun
ish him, did they not put his family
In Jail and leave him outside—why.
could they find no better way to punish
him than to leave three weak women
and alx helpless children to starve and
freeze?
That was their law; that was their
i ustlce! Jurgls stood upright, trem-
•llng with passion, his hands clenched
and his arms upraised, hla whole soul
ablaze with hatred and defiance. Then
thousand curses upon them and their
law! Their Justice—it was a lie, It
was a lie, a hideous, brutal lie, a thing
too black and hateful for any world
but a world of nightmares. It was a
sham and a loathsome mockery.
Thera was no Justice, there was. no
right, anywhere In It—It was only
force, it was tyranny, the trill and the
power, reckless and unrestrained!
They had ground him beneath their
heel, they had devoured all his sub-
NOTES FROM THE LABOR
WORLD.
Its cage. Now and thon In his frenzy
he would fling himself against the
walls of the place, beating his hands
upon them. They cut him and bruised
him—they were cold end merciless as
the nt«n who bu|lt them.
In the. distance there .wae* a church
tower bell that tolled the houre one by
one. When It came to midnight Jurgle
waa tying upon the floor with his head
In hie arms, listening. Instead of fall
ing allent at the end, the bell broke
Into a sudden clangor. Jurgle raised
hie head; what cduld that mean—a
Are III thle Jail! But then he mode out
a melody In the ringing; there were
chimes. And they eeemed to waken
the city—all around, for and near,
there were belle, ringing wild music.
For fully a minute Jurgle lay lost In
wonder, before, alt at once, the mean
ing of It broke over him—that this
was Christmas Eve!
Christmas Eva—he had forgotten It
entirely! There wae a breaking of
floodgates, a whirl of new memories
and new griefs rushing Into his mind.
In far Lithuania they had celebrated
Christmas; and It came to him aa It
It had been yesterday—himself a little
child, with his lost brother and his
dead father In the cabin In the deep
black forest, where the snow fell alt day
and all night and burled them from the
world. It was too far off for Santa
Claua In Lithuania, but It waa no: too
far tor peace and good will to rata, for
the wonder-bearing vision of the Christ
child. And even In Packlngtown they
had not forgotten It—eome gleam of It
had never failed to break their dark
ness. Last Christmas svs and all
Christmas day Jurgls had tolled on the
killing beds, and Ona at wrapping
hams, and stUI they had found
strength enough to take the children
for a walk upon the avenue, to see the
store windows all decorated with
Christmas trees and ablase with elec
tric lights. In one window there would
be live geese. In another marvels In
sugar—pink and white canes big
enough for ogres, and cakes with cher
ubs upon them; In a third there woult$
be rows of fat yellow turkeys, deco
rated with rosettes, and rablbta and
squirrels hanging; In a fourth would
be a fairy land of toys—lovely dolls
with pink" dresses, and woolly sheep
and drums and soldier hats.
Nor did they have to go without
their share of all this, either. The last
time they had had a big basket with
them and all their, Christmas market
ing to do—a rout of pork and a cab
bage for Ona and a rubber doll that
squeaked and a little green cornucopia
full of candy to be hung from the gas
Jet and gued at by half a doben pairs
of longing eyes.
Even half a year of the sausage ma
chines end.the fertilizer mill had not
been able to kilt the thought of Christ
mas In them. There was a choking in
Jurgls' throat u he recalled that the
very night Ona had not come home
Tela Elzbleta bad taken him aside and
The Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of
the United States and Canada will meet In
annual convention In Atlantic City next
week.
An acreement hss bean reached whereby
Sacramento, Cal., becomes s “closed shop-
town, so far as bnlldlng trades are con
terned.
Sixteen subordinate unions In New York
city, Chicago. Seattle sod elsewhere make
up the Actors' National Protective Union,
with a membership of about LOW.
The blacksmiths, wheelwrights and ms
chlnlsls of North Dakota have organised
a state association.
The annual convention of the Plano, Or
gan end Musical Instrument Workers' In
ternational Union will he held In Chicago
next week.
A movement le on foot to organize an
Industrial league for the purpoee of fighting
the Socialist movement among trades unions
and promoting the Interests of the trades
unions. Headquarters will be cttahUshed
for the league In Xew York, Boston, Chi
cago ami other cities, end an active anti-
Socialistic campaign Will be started.
Bootmakers' Union In New 8outh Wales,
Australia, sends the sheriff out after mem
bers who get behind In their dues and fall
to pay up.
.After discussing for three days the propo.
tlalon to amalgamate with the pulp makers
aud eulphlte workers of America, the In
ternational Brotherhood of Paper Makers
ili-cliled to leave the matter with the
American Federation of Labor.
The government of New Zealand Is con
sidering s plan to establish govcrnmsnt
meat and fish shops In order to squelch
the combines which keep op the prices of
food.
«u lauih lain III
horn* for comntnptlri
> minuter* of tho clt;
elve* to raise $50,00
for the erection of n home for
workingmen, and the
b*T* pledged - themiel __ __
for the erection of a modem sanitarium.
The Texas State Federation of Labor, at
Ita recent convention In Beaumont, decided
to go Into politico.
stance; they had murdered his old
father; they had broken and wracked
hla wife; they had crushed and cowed
his whole family; and now they were
through with him; they had no further
use for him—and because he had in
terfered with them, had gotten in their
way, this was what they had done to
him! They had put him behind bars,
as if he had been a wild beast, a thing
without sense or reason, without rights,
without affections, without feelings.
Nay, they would not even have treated
a beast as they had treated him!
Would any man in his senses have
trapped a wild thing In Its lair, and
left its young behind to die?
These midnight hours were fateful
ones to Jurgls; in them was the be
ginning of his rebellion, of his out
lawry and his unbelief. He had no wit
to trace back the social crime to its
far *ource*~-he could not say that it
was the thing men have called “the
system" that waa crushing him to the
earth; that It was the packers, his
masters, who had bought up the law' of
the land, and had dealt out their brutal
will to him from the seat of Justice.
He only knew that he was wronged,
and that the world had wronged him;
that the law, that society, with all Its
powers, had declared Itself his foe.
And every hour his soul grew blacker,
every hour he dreamed new dreams of
vengeance, of defiance, of raging, Tren
ded hate. \ f
"The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,
Bloom well In prison air;
It Is only what is good In Man
That wastes and withers there;
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,
And the Warder is Despair."
So wrote a poet, to whom the world
ha<T dealt lta justice-^
‘1 know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie In goal
Is that the wall Is strong.
And they do well to hide their hell.
For In It things are done
That Son of Goa nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!”
(Continued in Monday’s Georgian.)
Railway trackmen to the number of ,
about 400.000, on all railroads In the United j
States, have begun a campaign for better
wages.
ATLANTA’S OLDEST SAVINGS
BANK PAYING JULY
INTEREST.
All depositors of the Georgia Savings
Bank and Trust Company are request- i
ed to bring their pass books to the
bank and have the July Interest added, i
Amounts deposited before July 10th ,
will draw Interest from JTuly 1st. It Is J
n very noticeable fact with this bank
that with each interact period the earns
books are presented for a larger In-
teresL together with many others that
have Joined the ranks. It only goes to
■how that when a man once gets the
taste of Interest from a bank he Is
never satisfied without It It Is also
noticeably true that when a man once
forms the habit of saving he never '
tires of 1L A grant many firms, manu- ,
facturers and corporations are building
up a surplus fund with this sollri in- !
stltutlon. Let every Atlantan make a
firm resolve that at the end of the
present year he will be worth more
than at tho present time and resolve .
further that he will not allow his money
tn remain Idle. Both of these resolves
can beet be carried out by depositing
with the Georgia Savings Bank and '
Trust Company. They accept deposits
se small as $1 and pay Interest on
every dollar In the bank. Don't forget
to put your money In before July 10th
and your Interest will bo dated from
July 1st. Out of town depositors enn
remit by mall. Bank open every Sat
urday afternoon from 4 to 6, In addition
to regular morning hours.
JNO. L. MOORE Sc SONS ’ i
Have the only practicable solid double
vision glasses on the market. They
are the Integral Kryptok Invisible bi
focals and are Infinitely superior to the
cement kinds falsely advertised as In
visible. John L. Moors & Sons ara
sole manufacturers of the Kryptoks In
Georgia. Headquarters for everything
optical, 43 N. Broad Street, Prudential
Building. •••
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BELL
No city's smoke to mar the »ky,
No sound of traffic strikes the ear.
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MAIL
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PORTER SPRINGS, Lumpkin County, Ga.
OPENED JUNE 15. Address Henry P. Farrow;
popup sppipos. op.
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