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The wolf and the dog be now fightin' agin' the door, and she thinks they's handy to breakin' in, and it makes her a bit shaky in the hands, and she makes a slip and the rifle he goes off bang! makin' that hole there marrin' the timber above the windy. Then the wolf he goes off too; he be scared at the shootin'. When I comes home she tells me, and I lays fur the beast.
As morning after morning the men assembled in the dark meeting-room behind a saloon, and sat about in their overcoats complaining and whining, quoting their wives and relatives, more and more they grew disconsolate and discouraged. There were murmurs of rebellion, words of antagonism. Finally on the fifth morning a messenger arrived with a letter. Izon took it. "It's from Marrin," he murmured.
"Marrin? Why, he was here only to-day!" Izon clutched the back of a chair and leaned over. "Marrin is a dirty scoundrel!" His voice was hoarse with helplessness and passion. Joe rose. "Tell me about this! Put it in a word!" Tears sprang to Izon's eyes. "You know the cloak-makers' strike well! Some manufacturer has asked Marrin to help him out to fill an order of cloaks for him."
Judy an' her dam will hould me for a promust man, an' Dinah will give me the go, an' I desarve ut. I will go an' get dhrunk," sez I, "an' forget about ut, for 'tis plain I'm not a marrin' man." 'On my way to canteen I ran against Lascelles, colour-sergint that was av E Comp'ny, a hard, hard man, wid a torment av a wife.
And he wrote an editorial that altered the current of his life. He wrote: FORTY-FIVE TREACHEROUS MEN Theodore Marrin and the forty-four who went back to work for him: Every one of you is a traitor to American citizenship. Let us use blunt words and call a spade a spade. Theodore Marrin, you have betrayed your employees. You forty-four men, you have betrayed yourselves and your leader.
Marrin came up, more and more machines stopped, as if by contagion, and the place grew strangely hushed. The forelady turned to her boss. "This woman's sneaked in here without a permit!" Marrin spoke sharply. "What do you want?" Then in the quiet Sally spoke in a loud, exultant voice. "I only wanted to tell the girls to strike!" A sudden electricity charged the air.
"Come in my private office, quick! I'll talk with you!" Sally followed his hurried steps. "Yes, I'll tell you there," she fairly shrieked, "that I want the girls to strike!" Marrin turned. "Can't you shut up?" And then Sally wheeled about and spoke to the two hundred. "Girls! come on out! We'll tie him up! We're not like the men! We won't stand for such things, will we?"
"Oh no, no, no! I read it the way I read fiction! It's damned interesting!" Joe laughed. "Well, what can I do for you?" "What can I do for you!" corrected Marrin. "See here, Mr. Blaine, I'm interested. How about taking a little ad. from me, just for fun, to help the game along?" "We don't accept ads." "Oh, I know! But if I contribute handsomely! I'd like to show it around to my friends a bit.
There were cries of: "Speak! Go on! Say it!" Joe went on. Behind his words was a menace. "Then I want to say this to you. Your boss, Mr. Marrin, has done a cowardly and treacherous thing. He has made scabs of you all. You are no better than strike-breakers. If you do this work, if you make these cloaks, you are traitors to your fellow-workers, the cloak-makers. You are crippling other workmen.
I've a good mind to sue you for libel and shut up your shop." Joe rose, and there was a dangerous light in his eyes. His hands were open at his sides, but they twitched a little. "Then," said Joe, "I'll make it worth your while. If you don't want to be helped out, get out!" "Very well," sputtered Marrin, and turned, twirling his cane, and made an upright exit.
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