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self and bringin' in a verdict of guil- a Bill Jones Tells it to the -- = ------ By CHARLES W. WOOD in COLLIER'S WEEKLY ! "What's the news?" I asked Billjout gettin' drunk. Jones. "I've just had an argument with the boss," he told me. That certainly was news. I couldn't think of Bill Jones as an agitator. He is not only faithful and steady: he positively likes work. The "argu- ment," I guessed, must have been a- bout the Hinstein theory or some ab- stract problem in mechanics. "It was about wages," said Bill, "and conditions in the shop." "What's the matter? Isn't the boss satisfied with your work?" "He's too darned easily satisfied," said Bill. 'We ain't doin' no better now than we was six months ago, but he was all for lettin' things drift along. "But we showed him," Bill contin- ued. "We showed him what a bunch of bums we was fast gettin' to be. Lucy and I'd been studyin' psychology, or we might not have been able to, make it absolutely clear." _ It wasn't absolutely clear to me. - What did psychology have to do with wages, and what is the point in con- vinecing the boss that you are getting to be a bum? And who, by the way, are "we?" | "I was speakin' of the committee," Bill explained. "The committee from the union. The grievance committee. The boys wanted me to be chairman' because I read up a little more on -psychology than most of 'em. - Tf you'd read up on psychology," Bill continued, "you'd discover that when you find out why you do things you don't want to do, you ain't apt to do 'em. peetis : Lem and His Unconscious. "There's Lem Langdon. He's been gettin' drunk regular for thirteen years, and swearin' off jest as regu- lar. Lem'd go along for preachin' against rum and sure in his, mind that he was off it for life; then | he'd suddenly bust out of his office. some afternoon, sneak around by his" lonesome and buy a quart and mebbe | have to fight with the bartender t9| let him have it. He never knowed why he got drunk, so of course he couldn't do nothin' to prevent it." "But what has that got to do," 'I asked, "with your proving to the boss that you are a bunch of bums, in order to induce him to raise your wages?" "Tt was Lem's wife who finally dis- | covered what made him drink," said | Bill, completely ignoring my interrup- | tion. "She discovered that he was! afraid of her. He didn't know it, but | he was. When Lem was himself, he worshipped Mrs. Langdon. He was) always tryin' to live up to what he | thought her husband ought to be; and he'd get away with it until some-; thing which was more than himself | than he was wouldn't stand to be counted out no longer. That's what | the psychologists call the uncon- scious. "It took Mrs. Lem to explain it to him. 'Lem.' says she, | aidn't | marry your unconscious, and I ain't, jealous of him, but I hate to_see you | and him fightin' so much. You and | him is livin' together permanent,' says she; 'you can't get a separation, 'Vike you could from me. He ain't got no morals, Lem, and no decent man- ners, but he ain't to blame for that. The chances are he might act decent if you'd find out what he wants to 'do and give him a chance.' "Tem wouldn't have it that way at He was all for prosecutin' him- first. ty in the first degree, but Mrs. Lem jest laughed. She bet him that his "unconscious wasn't a booze fighter at all. 'You're always tryin' to_ forget somethin', Lem,' she says, 'and it ms like you can't forget it with- * * 4 I wish you'd find out what it is and remember it, just to see what'll happen.' " T ain't never goin' to take a drink again, says Lem. 'Yes, you be,' says she. 'You'll drink jest as much as you ever did, to make you forget the usual things, and then you'll drink a couple of gallons more to make you forget you just promised me you wouldn't. I've been reckonin', and I see your next drunk is due about the middle of January. If you postpone it till the 20th, you'll keep it up about ten days longer. Why don't you have it on the 10th, and maybe you'll get it over in a week?" The Hold-Up Men Confess "Lem spent the time between then and the 10th tryin' to remember what it was he was tryin' to forget. Mrs. Lem, helped him all she could. She Leven got. cards printed, sayin': Mr. Lemuel Langdon wishes to announce that he will abandon his office on the 10th of January to be drunk indefin- itely,' and they sent 'em around to all his friends. Lem's case had been pretty much a tragedy in town before that, but. now everybody got to laughin'. ' Lem even got to laughin' himself, but he would have backed out at the last minute if Mrs. Lem hadn't egged him on. They had all kinds of fun together plannin' for Lem's a®unk." "And what happened?" I asked. "Nothin'," said Bill. "Lem was game and done the best he could, but he got kind o' sleepy about half past nine and went home cold sober. Him and his wife then ran away for afew days, to make good on them cards, 'it again. much more successful than the first. and he come back on the 15th to try But the second trial wasn't Lem ain't been no use as @ horrible | example ever since." "Will you please tell me now," I. begged, "just what bearing the Lang- don case has upon the problem of in- dustrial strife?' "I was just pointing out," said Bill, "that when you once get a problem stated, there ain't much left of it. We organized a union "in the shop about a year ago, and we were just going to go on strike when it occurred to us to find out what we wanted to strike for. Eventually we found out and that's about all there was to it." "What was the trouble?" "Conditions was frightful,"' said Bill. "They was so bad; we discov- ered, that nobody much would have come to work at all if he found that he could make as much money by stayin' away and doin' nothin' but loaf. The company was just bribin' us with wages, apparently, and no- body likes.to feel that he's bein' bribed. The unconscious don't care nothin' about your duties or your contract with your employer: the un- conscious wants to express itself; and if you don't organize your life on that understanding, you'll hear from it in one way or another, just as Lem Lang- don did." ; : ' "Did you tell the boss that?,' I asked. "Sure," said Bill. there to tell him? We told him it wasn't much use to talk about a con- tract; that we was bound to be dis- contented, no matter how much he paid us, unless the jobs was made more interesting. 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