Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — A Domestic Strike. [ARTICLE]

A Domestic Strike.

“Now that you’ve got your 10 per cent, increase, John, you must be more liberal with your allowance for household expenses. I want a new tea-kettle, and the wash-boiler needs ” “Can’t afford it, Mollie; I’m only making living wages now, and you must wait until I can declare a dividend:” “Then you refuse to arbitrate?” “There’s nothing to arbitrate. I can’t ” - “Very well! I shall order a strike at once. The k tcken-fire shall be drawn this noon, and if you dare to bring another woman into this house, to cook as much as a kettle of mush, I’ll smash the cook-stove to smithereens. Come, children; we must begin to boycott your father immediately.”— Boston Record.