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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-6-13, Page 2copyright Houghton miffH proposal that a committee be appoint-, ed to confer with ,the management and plead for a revocation of the newt order, The committee wa instreetedi to contrast the efficiency of the elfin ployees of the Purroy Worlts with' that shown in any other mills in the' country; to point out that this effici-t envy was due to the homogeneous; character of the working force, corn - posed as it was of men of straight English or Irish descent, and not of Crotes, Lithuanians, and "Polacics"; to declare that the imposition of greater; Company by special arrangement, with Thos. Allen. burdens upon a reduced force must; Toronto decrease the efficiency of labor, and; 1 CHAPTER V (Cont'd.) Like most of the othertrietr, Jerry turned away in silence, But it was not the silence of stolidity or of apathetic despair; anger was burning hot within him, the anger of the op- pressed. The Purroy Works had al- ways made money for their owners; the avarice that prompted a scaling down of the working force, and an in- crease of the working hours was in, human. That was the crude general- ization that presented itself after the first moment in more concrete form-- in orm—in a fanciful contrast of Benjamin Desmond, a beneficiary, no doubt, of the new scheme, andcof himself, a suf- ferer from it, There would be Des- mond, deriving from, the increased toil of Jerry's hands the price of a case of champagne Cr of a gratefully received and publicly acknowledged subscription to a charity, or a mcnth'•s rent of a pew in his aristocratic church; and there would be Jerry Donohue, deprived of all his youthful pleasures, of the freedom to enjoy life that he had thought he would share with his bride, of the cheerfit.l leisure that had always marked the latter and best portion of each day— nothing left him but to drudge, to eat, to sleep. Oh, that would be permit- ted him; he would not be one of those to be dropped; that would be the fate of the. old, half -broken men. He came up abreast of one of these who was plodding with slow steps, head sunk on his breast. It was Jim Dobbins, a friend of his father's, and at the sight of his haggard face Jerry's wrath was submerged in pity. For more than a year Dobbins had been in failing health; his flushed skin, drawn tight over his cheek- bones, was that of the consumptive; his wife was wasting away with the same disease. He had three children, the eldest a girl of fifteen. "They've watered the stock, and we've got to pay 'six per cent. on it," said Dobbins. "It's for. you young fellows, Jerry, to decide whether you'll fight or submit. We old ones are about done anyway. We're all in the hands of bloodsuckers." He turned aside into the open- hearth mill where he worked. In the rod mill, Tim Brophy of the night shift, whom Jerry relieved, had just heard the news. He was a few years older than Jerry and had a wife and two babies. His usually wel- coming face was now scowling and sullen; he hardly looked at Jerry, but put on his coat, picked up his dinner pail, and walked off silently. All the morning Jerry plied his tongs, caught and drew the hissing, white-hot, writhing serpents of metal out across the rolls. More mechanical- ly than usual he was performing his task; his mind was preoccupied with his problems. What should he do? Implanted in him by his father was the sturdy principle that a man ought to stick to his job—that 'to seek to better one's self by change was to gamble recklessly. And it wasn't as if a choice were open to him; the twelvehour day ruled in all the other iron mills, and iron working was the only thing he knew. He could learn something else,:.but to de that would take time and would mean a great re- duction of income; it would mean the indefinite postponement of marriage, and the surrender of the house that had so long been his mother's home. He thought of all 'these things. and he thought, too, of the effect that the news would be likely to have on his mother and on Nora, and unaccus- tomed lines of worry and care fur- rowed his young brow. In the noon intermission, while he was eating his luncheon, Dave Scan- lan came in from open-hearth mill number two. "Going to have a mass meeting in Y_M.C.A. Hall to -night," he said. "Be on hand, Jerry; tell every one to come." Dave bustled off, a brisk, important emissary; his manner and his mes- sage were encouraging. To Jerry and, no doubt, to many other young men cheerfulness returned• the sound of a mass meeting was opeful; .at least itpromised excitement. So Jerry deferred consideration of his problems; his chief concern during the afternoon was the condition in which he should find his mother. He hastened home at five o'clock, appre- hensive lest she had collapsed utter- ly, yet not unprepared to discover that she had already dismantled the house and was awaiting him in a tearful triumph of resignation. To his great relief she had com- mitted neither of these excesses; in fact, she was sewing in her rocking - chair and greeted him calmly. She had heard all the news; she had gone about the neighborhood, visiting dis- traded women, and distracted 'women had visited her; the sight of them, she explained to Jerry, had made her resolve not to go "lepping" into the air like she was a wild creature. riow that she knew what the worst was to be, she wasn't afraid of it; of course, twelve hours a day in an iron mill was too much for flesh and blood to stand for a whole lifetime, but for a short while now, till he did be getting hold of a better job, it might be borne; and if not, there was always the washing to fall back on. And as for their home, well, it was themselves that made it, themselves and a few things they prized—not the four walls of the house; if they had to move away, they could take the spirit of their home with them. It wasn't as if 'they would be worse off, more un- lucky, than anybody else; trouble wouldn't seem nearly so bad when all their friends and acquaintances had to share it. She reinforced this cheerful philosophy . with an un- usually good supper: "We may be economizing soon on our victuals. Jerry, but not to -night." So it was a :hearty, well-fed, op- timistic young man that sallied forth to the mass meeting. That proved less exciting than he had anticipated; there was no dissent from Dob'bins'�s that the over-working of employees meant economic waste; and filially to convey .the ,warn;pg that, al the, order was not withdrawn, a general, strike of all .employees would he celled. Dob - committee that was to present thes bins was appointed : chaum-all of the e. considerations to the management: Then began the series of confer- ences that were prolonged for 'ten days unavailingly. The manage- ment disputed ,the "claims of the e n- ployees, yet professed reluctance to adopt so severe a policy of retrench- ment; that, however, had been dictat- ed by the directors. Dobbins and his; committee ,sought arra interview with Benjamin Desmond, who was re- cognized as the controlling forces in the Purroy Company's affairs. Des-, mond referred them back to the man- agement. The management depre- cated the idea of a strike; all parties would be, sorry, very sorry, if any such development took place, Not because of the threat, hut because the management was sincerely desirous of holding the good -will of its em- ployees it would endeavor to reopen the question with the board of direc- tors, Meanwhile, Roger Trask, without the knowledge of the workmen, had been pleading their cause. At the USE VEGETABLES AND SAVE WHEAT. might be used to advantage. There is nothing new, or elaborate about them but so few people think of try- ing them out. Potato Borden—Place a greased mould on platter. Build around it a wall of hot mashed potatoes, using nine potatoes, three and one-half inches high by one inch deep. Smooth and crease with case knife. Remove mould. Fill with creamed left -over 'n oyen be- meat. orfish an , reheat ii d ,be- fore serving. , Escalloped Potatoes.—Wash, pare, soak and cut four potatoes in :one- fourth inch slices. Put a layer ; in baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper dredge with cornmeal or flour and dot over with one-half tablespoon of butter substitute. Repeat. Add. ' hot milk until it may be seen through top layer. Bake one and. one-fourth hours or until potato is soft. Potatoes a la Hollandaise,—Wash, pare, soak and cut potatoes in one- fourth inch . slices. Cut in cubes. Cover three cups potato with white stock, cook until soft and drain. Cream four tablespoons butter substitute, add one tablespoon lemon juice, one- half teaspoon salt and a few grains of cayenne. Add the potatoes, cook three minutes and add one-half table- spoon finely chopped parsley... Duchess Potatoes.—To two cups hot rived potatoes, add two tablespoons butter substitute, one-half teaspoon salt and yolks of two eggs slightly beaten. Shape in form of cone or any desired shape. Brush over with beaten egg, diluted with one teaspoon water and brown in hot oven. With the aid of vegetables it is quite possible to have an entire dinner in one dish—a dinner; that is wholesome, nutritious and very palatable. How many people are familiar with fish chowder? Here is the recipe; it is enough for a family of five: 1% pounds fish (use moderate -priced veri- ties such as cod, haddock or flat -fish), 9 potatoes, peeled and cut in small pieces, 1 onion, sliced, 2 cups carrots cut in pieces, 3 cups milk, pepper, -1 tablespoon' fat, 11 tablespoons corn- starch. Cook vegetables until tender. Add fat, mix cornstarch with one- half cup of the cold milk and stir in the liquid in the pot to thicken. Add the rest of the milk and • the fish which has been removed from the bone and cut in small pieces. Cook un- s til the fish is tender, about 10 mi- nutes. Serve hot. The patriotism of Madame House- wife is measured these days by the kind of meals she prepares for her family. The youngest child will take what is put before him, provided the food is well cooked. There is no- thing in themenu that lends itself to more variety or constant use than do vegetables. Twice a day vegetables can be used in one form or another, if they are judiciously handled by the housewife. Vegetables have different character- istics. For instance green vegetables are valuable mainly because they con- tain substances which purify the blood and assist digestion. Roots and tubers are heat and energy -giving foods. All vegetables supply'bulk and all contain a considerable amount of water in which are the salts so valuable to health. We still within the sea- son when we need the properties of the roots and tubers. It will be some time before the fresh vegetables are on the market. Let us clean up the one kind before, we begin to use the other. The first and most immediate need is to release wheat for overseas. Every potato, carrat and onion that we eat is helping towards that end. . Don't ne- glect to be in the vegetable -eating ranks. One harried housewife moaned the other day; "I never want to see an onion again as long as I live. We are sick of them." "How many ways have you tried to cook them?" she was asked. "Oh I always fry them." No wonder she was sick of thein. Every vegetable can be cooked in a x ariety of ways and it is poorpolicy on tl:e part of, the hcusewife to tire her family with re- petition. She may use the same vege- table nearly every day and by a fre- quent change in the manner of e or cook- ing ook- in g serving rums she may achieve con- stant variety. • How many families have boiled po- tatoes day in and day out? It is safe to guess that only about five per cent. of the women in Canada cook potatoes habitually in more than two ways. One of the simplest acid easiest of dishes to prepare is riced potatoes. If the housewife is boiling them, any- way, she might as well vary themby putting them through a potato ricer or coarse strainer. Then they will be flaky, light and delicious. Here ,are some .other recipes that System as a Housekeeping Aid. For many years before becoming a farmer's wife, I was one of fifty teachers in a large school whose, head teacher was a woman of remarkable executive ability. Methodical, order- ly, statistical, she demanded that each teacher provide for her use and guid- ance a general outline of ` work for the term, a general program of work for each week, and a detailed program of the work for each day. These daily schedules must be elastic to al - .low of seizing unforeseen opportun- iities.or for unexpected occurrences. • My first few weeks 'at housekeeping were a horrible tangle mill 1;bethonght me to apply to my housework the same method of preparing a progyatn, so to speak, of the proposed or necessary activities of the day, and it has meant untold comfort, pleasure, and ease in the accomplishment of the day's dut- ies, nIt requires thought, planning and judgment to make things dovetail to best advantage, and like the school program, it must have sufficient elas- ticity to admit of being altered more or less as occasion demands. An in- terruption, a fire slower than we had expected, a telephone visit may disar- range our well laid plans, but some way, if we have it written down in tab- ulated form it is a little easier than if we are anxiously thinking, "what was it I was planning' to do next?" or to have to say, "Dear me, I intended to do so and so but:I forgot." I find a school slate hung on the wall with pencil hung beside it the easiest place on which' to jot my daily 'pro- gram. 01 course, the general plan of routine duties changes little from day to day, but I have found it well to have it 'put down in writing," especially for the guidance of hired help some- what as follows: ; `After breakfast: 1, clear table; 2, put sitting -room iri order; 3 do chamber work; 4, wash dishes; 5, prepare vegetables, etc. ! The daily program must be more specific, indicating what must be done while something else is doing, for it is this fitting of duties into their proper niches which lightens and shortens In - bar and makes the difference between efficiency and slovenliness, weekly drill he had heard from Jerry and from Dave Scanlan and others vigorous statements of their griev- ance—aide, he well knew,with air understanding of his relations with the men whom they held accountable for their plight. Trask did not intimate to thein that his sympathies were enlisted with their cause, but the Text day he called upon Desmond at his office and relieved , himself of all the arguments that he had heard and that had appeared to him sound. Des- mond, a dark, wiry little man with a sharp nose and an aggressive under jaw, shook his head decisively at in- tervals during Trask's protest. "You're dealing with intelligent English-speaking workingmen," urgs cd Trask. "That means, your mill's have an advantage over those that "employ largely foreign. -born ignorant, Half -skilled men—" "Americansdon't work in the mills nowadays; it's only the foreign -born who think of doing that," said Des- mond. "Americans prefer to be ,plumbers, gasfitters, carpenters, electricians, clerks, and labor agita- tors. If Americans want to work in the mills, they must accept the con- ditions that the foreign -born impose." "I think that these Americans will not accept such conditions." "In that event I have no doubt that their places will soon, be filled. "To me it seems `a short-sighted policy—to refuse to 'American work- men fair wages and reasonable hours and fill their places with miserable aliens who' have never known either fair wages or reasonable hours. It's a horrible economic blunder, You can't think that men are niere sub- sidiaries of machinery. You must believe that machinery should be an auxiliary to men. "If a mill were an institution like a hospital or an art museum, support- ed partly by private contributions, there might be .something in what you say. I'd a good deal rather myself see the men accept the. conditions that are enforced on us and make the best of them. But so far as they them- selves are concerned—well, I don't know that it wouldn't be better - for them to clear out—seek other oc- cupations. Improved machinery in these mills has rendered a man's work less arduous and wearing than it used to be—also= less interesting. Men can work longer hours—and it isn't now work for Americans. For ` do- ing a dull, stupid monotonous job day in and day out, I don't want an Agarian." merican; I want a Slav or a Hun. He was scarcely less frank in ex- pressing his views when the com- mittee of workingmen waited upon him for the ,second _ time. Their and persistency their intimation that punitive measures must -follow if the management adhered to its published intention annoyed him; he remarked sarcastically, "You men at the Purroy Works seem to feel that you are the aristocracy of labor." From that interview the committee returned discouraged •and indignant. At themass meeting called to hear their report Dobbins mounted the plat- form. He narrated the efforts that had ended in the failure of all nego- tiations; his recital of -Desniond's• cynical speech provoked a wrathful, inarticulate roar. Dobbins, haggard, tired,- feverish -eyed, made an impati- ent gesture imploring quiet. (To be continued.) 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