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THE THINKER.

Back of the beating hammer

By which the steel is wrought,
Back of the workshop's clamor
The seeker may find the Thought,
The thought that is ever Master

Of iron and steam and steel,

That rises above disaster

And tramples it under heel.

The drudge may fret and tinker

Or labor with lusty blows,
But back of him stands the Thinker,

The clear-eyed man who knows;

For into each plow or saber,
Each piece and part and whole,
Must go the brains of labor,
Which gives the work, a soul.

Back of the motor's humming,
Back of the bells that sing,
Back of the hammer's drumming,
Back of the cranes that swing,
There is the Eye which scans them,
Watching through stress and strain,
There is the Mind which plans them-
Back of the brawn, the Brain.

Might of the roaring boiler,
Force of the engine's thrust,
Strength of the sweating toiler,
Greatly in these we trust;

But back of them stands the schemer,
The Thinker who drives things through,
Back of the job-the Dreamer
Who's making the dream come true.
-American Machinist.

Secretary of Labor Replies to Statement Regarding Evasions of Act.

Secretary William B. Wilson, a member of the board of three cabinet members designated to draft regulations puting the new child labor law into effect, has issued a statement replying to assertions that the law easily could be evaded by holding products in storage for thirty days after their manufacture.

Those who attacked the law, he said, failed to distinguish between producing plants and warehouses, which might be located under the same roof and still be distinct, under the meaning of the provision barring from interstate commerce any product removed from a plant in which child labor had been employed within the thirty days previous.

He declared that any removal, therefore, of a commodity from the point where it was produced by child labor, even though it was stored a foot away for thirty days, or any other period, would make it forever inacceptable in interstate commerce.

EDUCATION NEEDED.

So long as any human being is inadequately fed, uncomfortably housed or unsanitarily surrounded, there will be work in the world for the labor movement and for all justice lovers.

The earth is big enough and rich enough and responsive enough to properly care orf all, and the only reason it does not do so is because greed takes what belongs to others and leaves the others in poverty and misery.

When justice shall have been done to all, then there will be need for labor unions, but we are far, very far, from that goal today, and must be alert and watchful lest we be driven backward instead of marching forward. Educate, agitate, organize, is the slogan.—Ex.