Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1913 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

by HENRY HOWLAND

The laundry girls go striking; they oft leave us in the lurch; The Choir Ladles’ Union wants a higher scale In church; ' The sewing girls are striking, and decline to arbitrate; The waitresses, assembled in their lodge, refuse to wait. As the days go rolling on Girls keep striking pro and con— Oh, cursed spite, that matters should have come to such a state. The lady cooks are putting down their ladles, and, alas! The lady clerks may strike before an-< other week shall pass; Posterity will look upon this as a striking age— The chorus girls are unionized, they're marching from the stage— As the days go rolling on Girls keep striking pro and con; The time is sadly out of joint, and striking is the rage. The chambermaids are striking; the stenographers, no doubt, Win next be forming unions so that they, too, may walk out; But the summer girls are loyal, they hre charming still and. gay; .... They are flirting on the beaches, they are splashing In the spray!— As the days go rolling on Girls keep striking pro and con— But the summer girls are busy tn the same old way,