. Carpenter. of busy hammers, For work is the worlds refrain,The heirs of adversity labor To the tune of saw and plane. The robins nest high in the tree-tops, The roses smile sweet and gay,Vnd a thousand charms of the summer Are calling the world to plaj ;But the men who work for a living, And fight the wolf from their door,Heed no call of vacations play time Rut toil as never before. And the beautiful world of pleasure So filled with beautiful thingsShines ever and on through the seasons Alike for peasants and kings;But capital corners the market On food stuffs and coal and the men wh
. Carpenter. of busy hammers, For work is the worlds refrain,The heirs of adversity labor To the tune of saw and plane. The robins nest high in the tree-tops, The roses smile sweet and gay,Vnd a thousand charms of the summer Are calling the world to plaj ;But the men who work for a living, And fight the wolf from their door,Heed no call of vacations play time Rut toil as never before. And the beautiful world of pleasure So filled with beautiful thingsShines ever and on through the seasons Alike for peasants and kings;But capital corners the market On food stuffs and coal and the men who toil for existence Must hustle to pay the price. And the fair, bright world with its June time Calls to its children in vain,For labor can not afford play time And earn the price of lifes pain;For the fangs of the wolf snarl nearer, The wolf of want at the door,And capital smiles at the specter That haunts the lives of the poor. a rn ^ THE CflRPOnTEI^ HOW THE OI,D ORDER IS CHANGING (By Prof. Ezra G. Gray.). T must be, to say theleast, annoying to thedecaying Kirby, hisNational Associationof Manufacturers, theErectors Association,especially its hiredman, Walter Drew,the fruitless Anti-Boycott coterie, andthe corporation law-yers and capitalisticsyndicates to realize that organized la-bor is being generously rewarded for po-litical support which a vast majority ofits members gave in the late nationalelection to the party now regnant. By favor of the successful party, or-ganized labor now sits in representationin the inner council chambers of the na-tion in the person of the Hon. Wm. , the Secretary of the Departmentof Labor; by favor of the ruling major-ity in the Congress of the United States,the odious Sherman Anti-Trust Act isno longer effective against labor andfarmers unions, in the sense of their be-ing illegal trust organizations, or liableto prosecution as such. In many States ofthe nation, labors leaders have beenplaced in high official position and laborlaws,
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