6 MEN WHO DEFY DEATH FOR GAIN Daring Strike - Breakers Fight Organized Labor irv Inter est of Capital. FARLEY, THE KING OF A NOTED TRIO. Behind This Leader Stands Frank Curry, "Blister" Ready and Their Forces Ready to Crush Unionism at Call of the Employers. Character Stvidy of Curry, Who Is Conducting Battle of Chicago Business Men on Teamsters—New Occupation Born of Industrial Strife. Chicago.—"Vested interests" have put the stamp of approval upon one com paratively new industry in the United States—strike breaking. There's a spe cies of freeinasoury that obtains in this Ishmaelite class, but thirty-third de gree honors only have been conferred upon three men—the Big Three of the Industrial strife world. James Farley, by reason of his long experience, easily leads this trio in the public eye. Not to have heard of "Farley's Own" is to ar gue yourself ignorant of great labor troubles. Frank Curry, the pugnacious, audacious, shrewd and withal fearless bundle of nerves and muscle who is de fying unionism in the vortex of Chi cago's riotous teamsters' strike, has pushed himself into second place. The third of this group of men who pour out organized capital's wealth to pour into strikes the units of fighters who move freight, turn wheels and push com merce on her way, is well known on the Pacific coast —"Buster" Ready. These are the superiors in the modern and approved plan of battle that capital uses to crush defiant unionism. They are not particular, are these generals, «s to the make up of their brigades of workmen, but they demand one thing from every man they lead—courage. "No time for streaks of yellow, be they In the black man or in the white man," is ~~ ~' the statement you will hear from the •strike breaker when he lines up his men lor the first duty. Farley the Mysterious. "Farley's here—he will have 2,000 negroes at. his back and Chicago's business will be resumed," was the message that went through the room where were gathered the chiefs of the teamsters' joint council. The name Farley was one to conjure with on the streets. A people who had no knowl edge of Farley except what was gained from the press wondered if Farley wore a coat of mail, slept with his '.head on a Winchester and had a body guard of cowboys. Yes, Farley was there. We saw him —we who were watching for the man whom the millionaire merchants ex pected to help them out of their stag nation. But the Farley who came into strike-ridden Chicago unannounced. Incognito and almost dragging himself Into his hotel room was not the in trepid Farley who had put his horny fist into the hand of the executive head of New York's Interborough and promised with tho grasp of friendship to break the strike of 0,500 employes Inside of 40 hours. Leader Broken in Health. Farley did not lead a body of rifle men in the Employers' Teaming com pany caravan guard. He did not get Ah to any ot the riots with the strike •sympathizers Instead lie slipped out of the city as quietly as he had come | in—a sick man. Down In a health i resort in North Carolina this greatest j of geniuses the labor troubles of the j country has produced is coughing, j The harsh, frame-racking cough that he has means that there is a great strike going on in his anatomy that even his indomitable courage cannot "break." It will break him. And when this is done a black wagon will traverse the streets of Pittsburg to a hillside where men who wear even the übiquitous union button will un cover their heads and mutter: "Well, he had the nerve." Curry a Man of Nerve. When the planet is "wobbling in its | orbit" the satellite must endeavor to | keep up the equilibrium. The honors i that might have been reaped by Far ley are left to Frank Curry to reap, i He began his harvest by getting ar rested and having his eyes blackened ;by the "caress of a pair of brass knuckles." Fretting over the orders of a physician that he remain in a | darkened room, the strike-breaker j showed his impatience to his few call ; ers. "I've only got a cinder in my | eye," said Curry. "But it don't make i me want to duck these poor colored fel j lows I have to break this strike with." i You study this man and see bow far short of Farley his capacity for j executive ability falls. Homestead's I iron works cooled the mold in which Farley's spirit was shaped and then the mold fell into the Alleghany river. | Curry had his fighting spirit case 1 hardened in a struggle of less iinpor | tance —he seems to have some molten material in the interior that needs the reverses of conflict to harden. Defies Death for Gain. It's money—only money that Curry is working for. He nonchalantly tells ; yon that. "If the strike lasts 30 days," I said Curry, as he dropped some medi j cine into his inflamed eye from the ! blade of a knife —disdaining to use the : little rubber syringe that his doctor has left for him—"l'll slip out of the ! city 130,000 richer than I was when I came in." "But haven't you any animosity— isn't there some of that hatred that , the correspondents have written about j that impels you to fight unions?" Curry j was asked. "Look here," was the quick reply. "Put down in your note book these few things, and when I'm a back num- I ber study them: "A man who would not take a chance I against a mob for money is not a per ! son to look for the future. "Capitalists play golf, count their coupons, lean on bright young men to pilot their great enterprises and write j essays for their club parties on the j 'growth of union tyr&oay r ' They need CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1905. brawn, brains and grit to help them in their troubles^ Must Please Men of Wealth. "The young man who has a few ounces of brains, a carload of grit and enough brawn to not know he has a stomach needs that capitalists' money. He can't win, taking it from the rich man—he must please him to get it. "Please the capitalist by showing him that law and order will spread out before you if you fight disorder and lawlessness and you will get more from the rich man than a bookkeeper could earn in 50 times your period of work. "If you are breaking a strike don't ask what kind of a union button the assailant wears—give him a quick rising one on the forehead for noth ing, if he assaults you. He'll" keep his dues paid then in the university of ex perience. "Think of the chances you have in life with money earned quickly and in large sums. Be mercenary, if you will, but get it by giving your best work for the man who employs you. Fat Checks Salve Wounds. "No physical pain you can get In a riot lasts long. The nice check that comes at the end of your work will make you forget a few bruises and scars. And this from a man whose eye was bandaged, whose head was swollen from club wounds and whose body bore bruises from the brick shower he had defied. Look for the cynic's smile when he concludes his epigrammatic talk and you will be disappointed. Curry has a new science—he will mas ter it and have a bank account that will take him far from the madding crowd, as it were. Some day he may have a sheep ranch and extend an in vitation to some old and broken for mer labor chief to come and be his herder. Demands Only Courage. Farley never forgot a man's name if he passed scrutiny and got his de scription on his little red book that he kept in a safe in his office in Pittsburg. Those names were a fund that he drew upon for the railway and street trans portation chiefs when they needed strike-breakers. But Curry has no list. He would not be bothered with a book. He will take the leadership of the biggest and most nondescript throng of nonunion men, black or white —and black preferred—that any employment agency ever hustled into day coaches for a long train ride. "Is he a man? Can he drive a team and fight?" Those are the only que ries Curry puts to his recruits after they are turned over to him. He will talk of the rich merchants of St. Louis putting rifles on their shoulders, shut ting themselves up in their Washing ton street barracks and fighting the mobs of unionists. He will say that their hands tremblad when their fin gers pulled the triggers that sent mes sengers of death to rioters. But his sickly smile follows his conclusion: "They broke the strike." "It's what guns were made for—to shoot. I shot at men lots of times. They had me tingling with pain when I did it and, may it please the court — ha! ha! ha!—l think iny aim was bad —very bad —worse than that of a woman. You see it's better to hit a striker than a lad playing a block away and you can afford to shoot into the ground once in awhile." Farley, the Silent. If Curry is studying to simulate Far ley he is a poor student. Farley never talked that much to anybody. The skill of Farley, who had 3,000 employes rushed up the East river to the Inter borough power house on the steamer C. 11. Northam, ready after midnight toman New York's cars that the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes had deserted, never was menaced by gar rulity. Union men, richer than other workmen, haughty because they had powerful and rich unions behind them and ignorant of the true strength of Farley as a strike breaker, scoffed when the Northam left her Jersey City anchorage. "Her decks are deserted." they said. "This man Farley has a baker's dozen of curs in the hold." Farley never spoke except in a low tone to a lieu tenant of "Farley's Own." He had made trips to the principal cities of the country, selected his men and had brought them to New York's portals. A few hours later he put them in charge of the cars and one day later had the unions suing for peace. There was scarcely an interview with Far ley in a Manhattan paper that was bona fide. Capital spent no time in foolish praise of tli'j man who gave it the weapon to humble strikers whose ultimatums to the company im posed impossible conditions. It paid him and filed his name for future use. Curry Once a Motonnan. Curry learned the use of the motor man's controller handle. He could stop a trolley car at a street crossing so that a passenger could alight at the same spot every time. He knew also the way to U3e the Westinghouse air brake. He could mend a "blown out fuse." He could climb onto a car roof and cut a live wire or fix a twist ed trolley. In short he was of the world of "front enders"—motor men. And it was not surprising that a great street railway strike brought him into his largest prominence. We watched him guide a car through a mob, dodge missiles and defy the stockyards thugs in the City railway strike. "I'll take a car through to the terminal and back if there is only a platform left," said Curry. Strikers visited his home and plead ed with his wife to teach him fear. She knew that he was fearless even to the death struggle. She also knew that his goal was the dollar sign that he had no specific fight with unions. Mrs. Curry realized that the current of his ambition could not be grounded and pleaded with her callers for justice for her spouse. "Frank's got the nerve —he has a right to work for his living and if he gets the re porters to call him a hero, a bruise on his head will hurt just the same," she is reported to have said. Brains vs. Brawn. Considerable brute strength was an asset used by Curry in the street car strike. Farley used his brains more and directed brute strength along lines of least resistance. The strategy of the Pittsburg office went into effect wherever Farley strung his "live wires" without a hitch. Curry, after all, was a strike-breaker who needed a general manager or a superintendent to help plan for the trips. Then there was the ice wagon driv ers' Strike in St. Louis. Farley did not aspire to "breaking" that. Maybe he was not asked to help. But Curry | I CURRY bobbed up. He gave his opinion of 1 the situation three hours after view | ing it. "Plenty of good police—a chief ! who knows the department will do as | it is told—union men who have a rev- I erence for the law that Chicago team i sters do not possess"—and he said to i the millionaire leaders who conferred | with him: "It's a cinch." In that strike Curry coined an ex pression that only one man heard, jlt was: "Negroes have blood, nerves and a desire to work. I'll fight to put them at par with the same stocks of the white men." And it was Curry who saw in his throngs of big, loose-jointed, silent, powerful, though not altogether cleanly, colored j recruits from St. Louis and the south | a force that could break the warfare | that International President C. P. ! Shea, of the Teamsters' brotherhood, had precipitated in Chicago. How Curry Defied Strikers. The first thing that Curry did when putin command in Chicago was to march 300 colored strike-breakers through crowded streets to "tearh them the lay of the land." It was only a picnic for Curry. The marchers were tired and footsore. Not so with Curry. A call went out: "We have lost a wagon. Who will find it? It has a federal injunction placard on it, but that means some one will lead the mob to make kindling-wood of it." "It's a cinch," came the familiar re ' mark of Curry. "Step out here, you j fellows. Follow me." Policemen never dodged the show | ers of missiles that were directed at | Curry and his band. Time for a grim i joke even by Curry. "They are not | trying to curry favor but curry Curry," [ said the strike-breaker. He found the j wagon. Wealth His Reward. Will Strikebreaker Curry ever get inLo the Union League club for a fare well dinner when his work is over? | No. The forces of the executive com i mittee of the Employers' association | that were instrumental in enlisting 1 Curry for the perilous work speak with the checkbook to such an em i ploye. They regard him as a soldier |of fortune. Curry will pass onto | some other center where organized I capital decides to declare its inde ! pen deuce of the so-called tyranny of labor —where a dormant citizens' asso j ciation or au employers' association [ arises to present a slogan: "Open- I shop city or fight to the finish," and again the will o' wisp of money will ! dance before Strikebreaker Curry's 1 eyes. He will do the work asked of i him. Given enough industrial strife problems to solve and Curry will swing around a circuit that will end only with his period of usefulness. There was grave talk of putting the national guard in the streets' of Chi cago when Curry was busiest directing his men. "My boys in a saloon?" queried Curry in his telephone. "Tell them to steer clear of the saloon, i That's what makes it possible for ] strike-breakers to work, lots of times j —the saloon." Then settling back for another chat the wounded leader dis cussed troops and their bearing on a strike. Troops and the Strike. "When you find the union men are just plain law haters—not high-class men —ynn learn that thetr do not f>»ar the police as much as thoy should. And I guess the bluocoata do not want to get the union men down on them. I was arrested for picking up a brick that a union sympathizer hurled at me, while the latter was not caught. While two policemen held me a thug used his brass knuckles on me. That's not fair. If militia were on guard law lessness would cease and we strike breakers would have a chance to put through the teams as directed." "Then the presence of troops would not make your own leadership futile?" Curry was asked. "Troops might have to fire a few vol leys and then the peaceful stage would begin. A short time of this and I would flit." Out in the street a rich man drove his automobile up to the department store. Fifty policemen were guarding a caravan of wagons manned with the negroes who blindly obeyed the orders of Strikebreaker Curry. A man who was fixing the cement sidewalk drew near to the automobilist. "They do be sayin' that this Curry, the strike-breaker, will have Farley wid him to-morrow, mister. I'd hate to be a teamster in the procession." "My good fellow, a scrike-breaker can sleep ten hours a night, like you do, perhaps," was the reply of the man in the auto —one of the merchant princes whose word in the Employers' association was law. And the wonder is that a strike breaker of prominence can find a room in which he feels secure enough to drop into slumber. K G. WESTLAKE. PASSING OF MEDICINE MAN Red Men Are Coming to Believe in the Virtues of the White Man's Medicine. The skilled professional doctor Is one of the greatest helps to the In dian, and the Navahos are receiving him with very little distrust, says the Southern Workman. The savage mis appropriation of things that are new is gradually subsiding, as result® make clear to him that the white man's medi cine is more powerful than his. But there are exceptions. The purely physi cal troubles may be eradicated by the doctor, but there still remains in many cases a mental uncertainty that de mands the attention of the tribal med icine man. It is not a foible or a fancy, but a mental disease governed by countless ages of mysticism which necessitates the occult, mind-easing treatment of the old days. This, then, is a mind cure of the Indians the Christian Science of the savage, which, hand in hand with concrete medicine, exists in all races, whether barbaric or cultured. It is as necessary to the Indian as a certain amount of mind cure is essential to our happiness. The knowledge of modern curative agents should be Imparted to the younger members of the tribe. They are capable of assimilating new facts and will take readily to the new school. Civilization is disrupting the tribal or ganization to such an extent that the major portion of the old laws and be liefs relating to the causes-and cure of disease will soon be things of the past. With this essential of the old life gone, the work of the medicine men will have been finished. At present there must be a certain cooperation between the modern doctor who goes among them and the medicine man of the tribe. Boy's Idea of Babies. Here is an essay on babies, by an English board schoolboy: "Babys are little red things without bones nor teeth. They have various sises, out jilst after they are horned, they are called bypeds; their bones are grisle. They are two sects, male and female, and are also very fat. When very young they do not have much hiir. They are always asleep only when crying. Women and girls go silly babys, and kiss them all over and say silly things. That's why girls have dolls when they haven't any little brothers. Everybody 'as to be a baby first. 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