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The Authors' Society, a sort of trade union, has been answered by the creation of a Publishers' Union, with all the delightful potentialities of a literary lock-out. It is time, therefore, for a person without prejudice to say a word to both sides. With the spirit which prompted the creation of the Authors' Society, Literature has nothing to do. To define Literature exactly is not easy.
"What's that you say? Oh, yes, your embargo, we know something about that! But then the employers will declare a lock-out for the whole trade what do you think of that? Old hats will be selling cheap!" Pelle was silent, and withdrew; it was the only way in which he could succeed in keeping cool.
This was now a great consolation and he had also a confident persuasion that the enforced lock-out would only last for a short time. "Things have got to their worst, Greenwood," he said, "and when the tide is quite out, it turns instantly for the onward flow." "To be sure it does, sir," was the answer. "Your honored father, sir, used to say, 'If changes don't come, make them come.
The remuneration of the labourers will continue, as at present, to be a matter of voluntary arrangement between them and their employers, the last resort on either side being refusal of co-operation, "refus de concours," in other words, a strike or a lock-out; with the sacerdotal order for mediators in case of need.
"What's that you say? Oh, yes, your embargo, we know something about that! But then the employers will declare a lock-out for the whole trade what do you think of that? Old hats will be selling cheap!" Pelle was silent, and withdrew; it was the only way in which he could succeed in keeping cool.
He saw, however, that it must be past Lock-out Time, for there were a good many fairies about, all too busy to notice him; they were getting breakfast ready, milking their cows, drawing water, and so on, and the sight of the water-pails made him thirsty, so he flew over to the Round Pond to have a drink.
With the Cathedral crypt he is better acquainted than any living authority; it may even be than any dead one. It is said that the intimacy of this acquaintance began in his habitually resorting to that secret place, to lock-out the Cloisterham boy-populace, and sleep off fumes of liquor: he having ready access to the Cathedral, as contractor for rough repairs.
This is because it is not there when you lie down, but it is there when you wake up and step outside. In a kind of way everyone may see it, but what you see is not really it, but only the light in the windows. You see the light after Lock-out Time.
Maimie was one of the kind who like to fix a day for doing things, but Tony was not that kind, and when she asked him which day he was to remain behind in the Gardens after Lock-out he merely replied, 'Just some day'; he was quite vague about which day except when she asked, 'Will it be to-day? and then he could always say for certain that it would not be to-day.
More money, money that's all they want. They know the State won't dare a lock-out and they trade on it. . . . Why don't they conscript 'em, sir? why don't they put the whole cursed crowd into khaki? Then if they strike send 'em over into the trenches as I said, and let 'em rot there. That would soon bring 'em to their senses. . . ." Sir James attacked his chicken viciously.
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