MRS MURPHY ON STRIKES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 40, 18 November 1913, Page 7

MRS MURPHY ON STRIKES.

(By Barry Pain'.)"

Of coui'.M-,- s-.mie gc-U [ait of? thenwork on a matter of rrineiplc. That's called a .strike, suid I've seen many of thorn. I've seen strik'.-; of pretty well everybody except the chanvoiv.au—nice .lot of old guys we should look if wo was to come put, too. I've s; en strikes, but I don't understand thorn proper. First one of the leaders gets up on a old b:ix and he says: ''Men, you're daves. Look -what bar-on';-: rip to. €'-.'. 51 your eye over the priee.-of a .spring cabb-.ge. Everything's, raised except your wages. You're bo.ijrg swindled and starved bv the bloated capitalist. You ain't got no living wage. Out you come for another penny a-hour," And out they comes. To prove as they cn.n't make a living 'by thoir work, they fellows'they've saved enough to take a holiday. The workman takes a few mee-sr/ed stme:, and the I -dts with I the hta/v buokk and e,o , out to do a ' iob of peaceful vcket in» Evay sneak thief m the place mixes m, for nh.ie time's a fietfit thc-io hipv be pchines Kvei y di>v tmlo <■]]«; arf ay to the tune of thou amh a. 1 ! tVvuin^, If von vint a man to ray \m akik, fh>t thifig vou ('« bee fts he has less moiie-v to/to-ifc i\'th it c i> U &">c, on Pv the time Ike i "urJi ns has all jrot the fnom the Boat d of Ti ule it patch something ttn The uivphncis w\<s i little'rnoie thin the; wnnud, pnd the men take a litth Vs, an] th< savs "Pc tee. ftpynu I,'' md ceiyhody seems uny nknil And what on eaith they've got to 1 pk,' >< \ about beat> me Whit ham. eis J The emp'oyeis is out out of pocket bv the loss of tiade and Hiciease of wges Thrv imk <? )t good b\ nuttin" up the Vii ,ec of tlien -stuff cicvinpt the gencnl nublic Hunt thioufh the geneial inbl" md you'll find the chans a 5 -selK the Ircon am eal)bi"es to the l !) voikmcn and aou'l' fin 1 them puttni"' no then tire-, in turn Noholv tike a k -v if he cai help it he i "-,sr<l it on to the next man So theie sou aie The strilus have got a little extra money, but they're put u'j the mica aya'iist their pelves in doing of it Ma\tK?, theie's moie in it than Tcm see If there ain't fitiikes is foolishness