Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1912 — The “Workin' Stiff." [ARTICLE]

The “Workin' Stiff."

"He is one of the army of nnskfUedl laborers easily mobilized on any of * variety of industrial frontiers," write! Charles Phelps Cushing and Arthur Killick in the issue at Harper’s Weekly—"an army estimated now at halt a million, content to do the hardest sorts of toll at wages so low that not more than one man in a thousand) saves anything.” When he gets into trouble the “stiff’s” hands are his beat credentials. “Look at his hands, sergeant," the magistrate says. "Tho police court bailiff feels their palms and nukes one of two permissible answers, ’Soft as a baby's, yer Honor!' or *Hard as nails, sir.’"