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The men-fairies now sheathed their weapons on observing the behaviour of their women, on whose intelligence they set great store, and they led him civilly to their queen, who conferred upon him the courtesy of the Gardens after Lock-out Time, and henceforth Peter could go whither he chose, and the fairies had orders to put him in comfort.
A couple of workmen, who were sitting at a table eating fried liver, joined in the conversation. "He came a good deal to the front five or six years ago," said one of them with his mouth full. "But there wasn't much in him; he had too much imagination." "He had the gift of the gab, anyhow," said the other. "I still distinctly remember him at the great lock-out.
But if we only have our own tannery, the one business can be carried out thoroughly and can't be smashed up, and then we're ready to meet a lock-out in the trade." "The hides!" interpolated Brun. "There we come to agriculture. That's already arranged cooperatively, and will certainly not be used against us.
Why, then he'll hit back and declare a lock-out. Could we hold out? Not very long, but the employers don't know that and then their businesses would be ruined. But then they would introduce workers from abroad or, if that didn't answer, they would get the work done elsewhere; or they would import whole cargoes of machinery, as they have already begun to do on a small scale."
She leapt into his arms, so that it was a sort of fairy wedding, and then she hurried away. Oh, how she hastened to the gates! Peter, you may be sure, was back in the Gardens that night as soon as Lock-out sounded, but he found no Maimie, and so he knew she had been in time.
Nevertheless, he was not yet in safety; for, on pretending to disembark, he found a multitude of small people drawn up on the shore to contest his landing, and shouting shrilly to him to be off, for it was long past Lock-out Time.
These immigrants are not inspired to come to this land by reason of an appreciation of the liberty that our Constitution vouchsafes to all mankind. They have been brought here by the agents of the Trusts, because they are willing to work for pauper wage. "I can tell you, Mr. Trueman, that in the strike that I feel will follow the lock-out, there will be bloodshed.
He was also promised that he should receive a bonus of twenty-five kroner when he had been there a certain time. "That's the Judas money," said the foreman, grinning. "And then as soon as the lock-out is over you'll of course be placed in the forefront of the workers. Now you are quite clear about this that you can't get out of here until then.
In all disputes, there should be an interchange of views, a full statement of grievances by those who are dissatisfied, and a fair consideration of them by the party against whom they exist." O'Hara was not afraid to look his employer in the face and say: "That has been my opinion all along, Mr. Bradley, and had it been yours this lock-out would never have come." "I admit it.
In the meantime there were rumors that a lock-out was being prepared, affecting every occupation, and intended to destroy the Federation at one blow. But that was inconceivable. They had experienced only small lock-outs, when there was disagreement about some particular point.