Advertising -- Fiction; Bank employees -- Fiction; Labor unions -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Satire
We ask for living wages, but also for the respect of the
public.
Our Emblem is the Sign of the Ultimate Sandwich.
Every time you see a Sandwich-Board without it you may be
sure it belongs to a merchant who skimps his Advertising
Appropriation.
If he skimps in that, what won't he skimp in?
How about the _quality_ of his goods and his _values_?
We advertise the High-class Trade, honest advertisers who
skimp in nothing to please the public.
No merchant can misrepresent his goods through us.
We do not Advertise Frauds nor Misers.
We could frighten off the Poor Men whose hunger makes scabs
of them.
We would have the approval of the Labor Organizations and of
the thinking public.
_But we are for the Law!_
They can join our Union if they wish.
There is no Initiation Fee.
There is no compulsion to join.
They are American Citizens!
_So Are We!_
The Tightwad Merchant may not be Dishonest. But--
The Public Must Judge--Calmly.
Look for the Ultimate Sandwich in all signs!
American Society of Sandwich Artists.
H. R.,
_Sec._
WE NEVER SOLICIT SUBSCRIPTIONS!
Andrew Barrett read it. His jaw dropped and he stared at H. R. Then he
declared with conviction:
"Next to the Gettysburg address, this!
WE--NEV-ER--SO-LI-CIT--SUB-SCRIP-TIONS! Where does it all come from?"
H. R. solemnly pointed to the ceiling of his office, meaning thereby,
like most Americans, heaven. Max Onthemaker looked at him dubiously, the
Deity being extra-judicial. Then he shook his head uncertainly. History
had told of Peter the Hermit, Mohammed, and others. It was a familiar
hypothesis.
The public, when it read in the newspapers that these poor men did not
believe in killing scabs, but hated tightwads and never asked for
subscriptions, unmistakably and unreservedly espoused their cause. The
man who skimped was the common foe of the free citizen. They wrote
letters to the newspapers.
So did the Public Sentiment Corps.
To hate tightwads and never to ask for subscriptions were admirable
American traits. Christian merchants and even heretics in trade called
them Virtues!
Big business took the trouble to tell the reporters that this was the
kind of labor organization everybody could approve of. It was a check to
Socialism. Big business believes in some kinds of checks.
The labor organizations could not condemn a union. They said they also
were for peace and against the wretches who capitalized the hunger of
their fellows.
In twenty-four hours the scab-users surrendered!
More clippings for Grace.
The Society of American Sandwich Artists prudently leased three more
offices and prepared for the rush. It came. Orders poured in from scores
of merchants. The premises were so crowded with men both with and
without sandwich-boards that the other tenants complained.
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