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'No, said he; 'but the Gazette has made a great many enemies, you know. 'Drop your fooling, Mr. Cartwright, I said. 'You propose to have me shadowed while I'm working on this assignment? 'You can put it that way, he answered, 'if you think it'll please the readers of the Gazette." "Too bad we didn't meet!" said Hal. "Or if you'd run into any of our check-weighman crowd!" "Oh!
But Hal stopped where he was. "This is where the check-weighman belongs, Mr. Peters." "But I want to talk to you." "I can hear you, sir." Hal was in sight of the men, and he knew that was his only protection. The tipple-boss went back into the office; and a minute later Hal saw what had been intended. The door opened and Alec Stone came out.
It was something he was to experience many times in the future; because he was an American, and educated, he was forced into a position of leadership. "As I understand it, you people want a check-weighman. Now, they tell me the pay for a check-weighman should be three dollars a day, but we've got only seven miners among us, and that's not enough.
I am informed there's a law providing that when the men demand a check-weighman, and offer to pay for him, the company must permit him to inspect the weights. Is that correct?" "It is, I believe." "And there's a penalty for refusing?" "The law always carries a penalty, young man."
The other blew a ring of smoke across the room. "Just want to put the company in the hole, hey? Some kind of agitator?" "I am a miner who wants to be a check-weighman." "Socialist?" "That depends upon developments here." "Well," said the marshal, "you're an intelligent chap, that I can see. So I'll lay my hand on the table and you can study it.
They demanded the right to have a union without being discharged for it. They demanded a check-weighman, to be elected by the men themselves. They demanded that the mines should be sprinkled to prevent explosions, and properly timbered to prevent falls. They demanded the right to trade at any store they pleased.
He was losing that "first fine careless rapture" with which he had set out to run with the hare and the hounds in North Valley! Two days after this beginning of Hal's political career, it was arranged that the workers who were to make a demand for a check-weighman should meet in the home of Mrs. David.
At Reminitsky's, he spoke to some of those who had offered their support, and asked them if they would be willing to spend the night with him in Edstrom's cabin. Not one shrank from this test of sincerity; they all got their blankets, and repaired to the place, where Hal lighted the lamp and held an impromptu check-weighman meeting and incidentally entertained himself with a spy-hunt!
And as he spoke he opened the door, putting something into the action that was a command. "Mr. Cartwright," said Hal, "there's no law against our having a check-weighman, is there?" The look which these words drew from the superintendent showed that he knew full well what the law was.
Shortly before that they locked me up in jail, and held me for thirty-six hours without the slightest show of authority." "You must have been doing something!" "What I had done was to be chosen by a committee of miners to act as their check-weighman." "Their check-weighman?" "Yes, your Honour.
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