Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — Interview With a Pullman Striker. [ARTICLE]

Interview With a Pullman Striker.

New York World. “What did you work at?”*“I cleaned the ears before they were shipped. 1 used to ave from four to seven boy helpers. I got $1.30 a day, but w’at was that in a family of eight?” "But you surely arc not blaming Mr. Pullman becausd of the £ize of your family?” I protested. "No. ardly,” he granted, with a laugh. "1 suppose I ad all the pay the job was worth, but it’s the, rents as was the tough job. We pay $7 a month for these two rooms, as you see, and 60 cents a month for water, so after I filled all the children’s mouths there wasn’t any left for clothes. So we got poorer every month. But I did try to keep out of debt, arid now, since I’ve ’ad to strike, I can’t do that. ‘Ungry we get up an’ ’ungrv we go to bed, an’ the men w’at ordered us out an’ the millionaires w’at employed us get long just as well as ever.’’ Wellesley College’s new president, Mrs. Julia J. Irvin, is a sister si “Buffalo Bill” Cody,