People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — Gatling Gun in the Composing Room. [ARTICLE]

Gatling Gun in the Composing Room.

Not only the common laborer but skilled labor itself has been a sufferer from the almost Siberian despotism of our system. The labor-saving machine does not save labor. A Boston daily newspaper is putting in 30 type-' setting machines which means the discharge of 60 compositors. A rival newspaper is preparing to do the same, and it is within bounds to say that no less than 200 printers in Boston will fall before this little gatling-gun of the composing room. Tramps are the decayed fruit of competition. A mechanic in I Boston, long out of work, being denied further credit by his grocer, recently filched a sack of flour. The grocer calls a policeman, and both followed to the tenement of the mechanic, where the mother and children were found eating the hour made in-1

to a paste with cold water, there being no coal in the Louse. The policeman refused to arrest the mechanic. —Mason A. Green in April Donahoe’s.