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...remain in Butte. A lawyer gave him a job collecting bills and in 1906 he hung out his own shingle. Next year he married Lulu M. White of Albany, Ill., whom he had met at college in Ann Arbor. He soon allied himself with the cause of the workingman and against Anaconda Copper by specializing in compensation cases. In 1910 he supported the late Thomas J. Walsh in his first U. S. Senatorial campaign. Walsh was defeated, but Wheeler was sent to the State Legislature. When Senator Walsh won his seat in 1912 he did not forget his young ally...
Labor's honeymoon with the present Administration is definitely over. The workingman was given a substantial lift but that push did not suffice to bring the country out of the depression, so now he may expect nothing but rebuffs. It is now the entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must...
...Henry Adams, who it will be remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than the joyous throngs who idled down the years after the first Versailles, unconscious that their house was tottering to its final destruction...
...bankers, seated around long tables below a marble dais in the glass-&-silver banquet hall of Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland-Plaza last week. 322 delegates of the American Federation of Labor were gravely deliberating the course of their 2,532,261 membership, the course of the U. S. Workingman. On the third day of their 52nd annual convention, the delegates were briefly but thoroughly shocked. Rumblings of disorder came from an out side corridor. Backed by 25 struggling colleagues, an excited man named Louis Weinstock, member of the New York City Painters' Union, shoved...
...Papavert is the name of a mellow old bookbinder who suddenly finds himself in jail. Released by Communists, he becomes for them a symbol of the oppressed workingman. But Mr. Papavert does not like to be a symbol, at one point tries to commit suicide. The whole affair woefully tries for satirical effect, elements of which must have been lost long ago with constant revision. The play was recalled after two performances last month. At that time it was called Papavert. Its present title resulted from a general impression that papaversion was a mental disease...