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"And if you ever want another job in Marion you may be blacklisted. I don't want to get you into a scrape." "I can't be in any worse scrape than the one I am in now. Haven't I just told you who I am?" "Oh, I know that! I reckon you're the same fellow. But, see here, mister, I'm one of those simple kind of galoots and the less a man knows the more suspicious he is.
We sent you just what was ordered and if I don't get the money right now you get blacklisted. Shell out!" The manager's tone was hard as nails. "Oh, Mr. Clemm ... well, excuse me. I must step behind your desk to get it, but you ain't treatin' me right, just the same, to force it this way."
That evening, when he returned, the smile was still at its post; but it dropped away wearily as he said, with his hands on her shoulders: "Don't worry, mother; I don't know exactly what's happening, but we're not blacklisted yet." Mrs. Amherst had immediately taken up her work, letting her nervous tension find its usual escape through her finger-tips.
You know yourself that anybody who talks against the Northeastern is booted down and blacklisted. You've seen that, haven't you?" "I have observed," said Mr. Crewe, "that things do not seem to be as they should in a free government." "And it makes your blood boil as an American citizen, don't it? It does mine," said Mr. Tooting, with fine indignation.
You look like a tramp." "Yes," he answered bitterly, "I'm a tramp. That's all they'd let me be. I used to be a locomotive engineer before the big strike. Then they blacklisted me, and I've never had a job above laborin' work since. It's easy to take to the road and stay at it when you find you can't make over a dollar a day at back-breakin' work after earnin' three and four at the throttle.
Why, in the end, King John's kingdom was blacklisted and boycotted by the traders till the revenues diminished to zero, the people went bankrupt, and King John couldn't borrow a shilling from his most powerful chief. "By this time he was getting old, and philosophic, and tolerant, and spiritually atavistic.
The railroad had filled every place, and it was well known that the striking shopmen not only would never get their old jobs back but were blacklisted in every railroad in the United States. Already they were beginning to scatter. A number had gone to Panama, and four were talking of going to Ecuador to work in the shops of the railroad that ran over the Andes to Quito.
Great Britain and France served notice that this company's vessels were blacklisted, and became seizable as prizes of war because of the suspicion that German interests were behind the company, and that its American officials with their reputed holdings of stock were therefore really prizes for German capital.
Give up this idee of gittin' me business away from me. Ye can't do it. I'm too well established, and the only skipper I've blacklisted is Williams, and he's all ye've got." "What do I git out of it?" "Ye git your blood-money from Williams, widout huntin' up yer min. I git the allotment agin' the expense I'm put to in feedin' thim.
He is blacklisted until the man who discharges him chooses to reinstate him. If employed by one paper and does exceptional work, he cannot go to another one at an increase of salary. This is one of the strongest rules of the trust.
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