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GROWLING FOR THE BOSSES' BLOOD.
I thought I made a number of enemies among the men while I was head of the mill committee.

When a man dissipated and afterward came back to work, trembling and weak, the boss would refuse to let him take up his tools, but would lay the man off for a few days.

The man usually thought this a useless and cruel punishment; and to lose a few days' wages would make him all the poorer.
The man thus laid off would come to me and ask that I get him reinstated.
"Tell 'em you'll call a strike," the man would say.

"Tell 'em that if they don't let me work, nobody will work." I always refused to take such complaints to the office.