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Updated: May 22, 2025
You only have to be firm and you can get what's fair and right." A man rose up in the hall. "Is it true," he asked, "that Boulding's won't pay the advance? that they are going to close the doors to-morrow if we insist upon it?" "It is true," Mr. Docker answered. "Are you afraid of that?" The man hesitated.
"There's sure to be lots of people there," he declared, "but we can find a seat at the back quite easily." "What's it all about?" Maraton asked. "The proposed boiler-maker's strike," Aaron replied eagerly. "The meeting is really a meeting of the workpeople at Boulding's. But are you sure you won't go on the platform, sir?" Maraton shook his head. "That is just what I don't want to do.
His peroration was friendly but appealing. "There are some amongst Boulding's people," he wound up, "who, they tell me, are satisfied. If so, I hope they are not here. They haven't any place here.
They do not understand." "They do not understand what?" Julia asked him, turning her head swiftly. He shrugged his shoulders. "They will ask for five shillings a week more and get half-a-crown," he said. "Half-a-crown a week! What difference can it make? Do you know what Boulding's put on one side for distribution to their shareholders last year? what they put to their reserve fund?
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