STRIKES
TEACHER—"Now, if I paid one man two dollars a day for seven days, another three dollars and fifty cents for ten days, and another four dollars and seventy-five cents for six days—"
REDDY BACKROW (whose father belongs to the union)—"You'd have the durndest strike on your hands you ever saw, teacher."
"Everybody's striking,"
Said the Old Clock on the shelf;
"It seems to be the fashion.
So I think I'll strike myself.
"But striking is my business—
Did you ever see such luck
I'll have to give up striking
Just to show folks that I've struck!"
THE LADY-"So you're really one of the strikers?"
THE LOAFER-"Yus, lidy. I'm wot they call one o' the pioneers o' the movement. I went on strike twenty-three years ago, lidy, and I ain't never give in yet."
A strike is not a "brake on industry." It's a displaced switch.
THE FATHER—"But have you enough money to marry my daughter?"
THE SUITOR—"Well, sir, at the moment I only get 300 francs a month, but by going on strike every other month for higher wages, I shall be getting 1,000 francs by the end of the year."
EMPLOYER—"There's a spirit of unrest among my men."
VISITOR—"What about?"
EMPLOYER—"Because they can not find any excuse to go out on a strike."—Judge.