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Hal accepted this look as an answer, and continued, "I have been selected by a committee of the men to act as their check-weighman, and this committee has duly notified the company. That makes me a check-weighman, I believe, Mr. Cartwright, and so all I have to do is to assume my duties."
This fellow was one who indulged in the luxury of speaking his mind, because he had youth and huge muscles, and no family to tie him down. He was what is called a "blanket-stiff," wandering from mine to harvest-field and from harvest-field to lumber-camp. Some one broached the subject of check-weighmen to him, and the whole table heard his scornful laugh. Let any man ask for a check-weighman!
And might it not be that they understood their workers better than the would-be check-weighman? He recalled Mary Burke's pessimism about them, and anxiety gnawed at his soul; and such is the operation of the jail-psychology he fought against this anxiety.
The last to come was an Austrian miner named Huszar, with whom Olson had got into touch. Then, it being time to begin, everybody looked uneasily at everybody else. Few of them had conspired before, and they did not know quite how to set about it. Olson, the one who would naturally have been their leader, had deliberately stayed away. They must run this check-weighman affair for themselves!
But while you're seeking education for yourself and your brother, don't forget that I've already got my education. I know what happens to men who ask for a check-weighman, and I can't afford to sacrifice myself proving it again." "I never asked you to," laughed Hal. "If I won't join your movement, I can't expect you to join mine!
It was his plan to make out affidavits, and if the officials here would not act, to take the affidavits to the Governor. And for this he would need money. Meantime, he said, let Billy Keating write out the check-weighman story, and in a couple of hours meet him at the American Hotel, to get copies of the affidavits for the Gazette.
"You mean they would fire him?" asked Hal. "Maybe!" was the answer. "Maybe they make him fire himself." "How do you mean?" "They make his life one damn misery till he go." So it was with check-weighman as with scrip, and with company stores, and with all the provisions of the law to protect the miner against accidents.
Wresmak, here, and you, Klowoski, and you, Zam you other Polish fellow. Want check-weighman. Want to get all weight. Get all our money. Understand?" "Yes, yes!" "Get committee, go see super! Want check-weighman. Understand? Got to have check-weighman! No back down, no scare." "No no scare!"
Some people don't like the idea of a union they think it means tyranny and violence " The organiser laughed. "You aren't convinced but that it does yourself, are you! Well, all I can tell you is, if you want to tackle the job of getting a check-weighman in North Valley, I'll not stand in your way!" Here was an idea a real idea!
You're not going to serve as check-weighman in North Valley, nor any other place that the 'G. F. C. has anything to do with. Nor are you going to have the satisfaction of putting the company in a hole. We're not even going to beat you up and make a martyr of you. I was tempted to do that the other night, but I changed my mind."
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