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No nonsense left, by that time, about 'blood' and 'family. Society will have dropped all those little trimmings and embroideries. We shall have come to the naked fundamental things." "The struggle of rich and poor?" said Delorme. "Precisely. That's what all you fellows who go and preach revolution to dockers are after. And what on earth would the world do without wealth?
That this agitation was one of the causes of the great seamen's, dockers', and railway strikes that followed is indicated by the fact that Mr. Mann was at once given the chief position in this movement. His first principle is that the unions should include all the workers, in their respective industries:
But their faces were still eager and excited; and they themselves; when they approached the light they always burned themselves in it, like the moths, they were so chilled! "All the same, that's a queer invention, when one thinks about it," said one of the dockers, nodding toward the Christmas-tree. "But it's fine. God knows what it really is supposed to mean!"
Speak of the organizing genius of the "Great Misunderstood," the people, to those who have seen it in Paris in the days of the barricades, or in London during the great dockers' strike, when half a million of starving folk had to be fed, and they will tell you how superior it is to the official ineptness of Bumbledom.
And now that he knows just how it feels, he has an office down on the docks where he's getting the stokers and dockers together getting them ready for a strike on your beloved harbor." "Joe Kramer," said Eleanore quietly. Sue gave a sudden, nervous start. "Eleanore," she severely rejoined, "sometimes you're simply uncanny the way you quietly jump at a thing!"
We have our own dockers to start it from dock we have our own stokers, our own engineers we have our own pilots we have all! And it will be easy to steer that boat for we have made the harbor empty we shall have the whole place to ourselves! Some day maybe soon we have all the boats in the world for ourselves and we shall be free! All battle boats we shall sink in the sea we stop all wars!
"It's a coffee-shop used by the dockers. You'll see when we get inside. The place never closes so far as I know, and if we made 'em close there would be a dock strike." He crossed and pushed open the swing door.
And she said that a family of "dockers" lived in the building under our garden. They were all that was left in it now but "old junk." Who was Old Junk, a man or a woman? And what in the world were Dockers? Pursuing my adventurous ways, I found at one place in the garden, hidden by flowers near a side wall, a large heavy lid which was painted brown and felt like tin. But how much heavier than tin.
The whole mechanism of the Federation in the earlier period revolved around the organization of the skilled laborers. In England the great dockers' strike of 1889 and in America the lurid flare of the I.W.W. activities forced the labor aristocrat to abandon his pharisaic attitude and to take an interest in the welfare of the unskilled.
So I knew what Dockers were at last! In place of the one who lived under our garden and had burst up among the flowers, I saw now that there were hundreds and thousands of men like him down there on the docks. And all belonged to the harbor. Their work I learned was to load the ships whose masts and spars peeped up at me over the warehouse roofs.
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