And now, when hard times come along, and they are cutting wages, what do they do?
Do they make any discrimination in my case?
Do they remember the man that stood by them and risked his life in their service?
No.

They cut my pay down just as off-hand as they do the pay of any dirty little wiper in the yard.

Cut me along with--listen to this--cut me along with men that they had BLACK-LISTED; strikers that they took back because they were short of hands." He drew fiercely on his pipe.

"I went to them, yes, I did; I went to the General Office, and ate dirt.

I told them I was a family man, and that I didn't see how I was going to get along on the new scale, and I reminded them of my service during the strike.