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Probably, as Marija claimed, she made mistakes on purpose after that; at any rate, she made them, and the third time it happened Marija went on the warpath and took the matter first to the forelady, and when she got no satisfaction there, to the superintendent.
It was the riotous variety, where at least one of a group would “laugh till she most cried”; nor did it make the least difference, whether the forelady was one foot or one hundred away. Like as not the forelady was laughing with the rest. Only once did I ever see authority exerted to curb merriment. On that occasion things reached a climax.
The forelady gave her locker to some one else. Such a row! Louisa said: “I got mad, I did. I told her to go to hell. That's only w-w-w-way anybody gets anything in this world—get mad and say you go to h-h-hell. Betcha.” A little later the forelady, when the Italian was on one of her trips after a drink, leaned over and gave me her side of the story.
Her indignation arose from her sense of the hideous injustice of Matson's discharging girls for doing what his meager wages all but compelled. "Yes, I've been watching you," he went on, "with a kind of a sort of a notion of makin' you a forelady. That'd mean six dollars a week. But you ain't fit. You've got the brains plenty of 'em. But you wouldn't be of no use to me as forelady."
In one of the smaller plants she had stumbled upon a room where scores of women and girls were sitting at long tables preparing smoked beef in cans; and wandering through room after room, Marija came at last to the place where the sealed cans were being painted and labeled, and here she had the good fortune to encounter the "forelady."
"Did you get a permit from the office?" Sally seemed surprised. "Permit? No! Do you have to get a permit?" The forelady spoke roughly. "You get a permit, or you don't go up." "Where's the office?" "In here." "Thanks for telling me!" Sally came down, and, as she entered the doorway, the forelady proceeded up-stairs.
Also though she did not realize it her young enthusiasm was steadily being sapped by the life she was leading. It may have been this rather than natural gentleness or perhaps it was as much the one as the other that kept Susan from taking Matson's advice and hardening herself into a forelady.
The humpback's eyes flashed. "Marcsa, the beautiful Marcsa! I should say so! She's been made a forelady, though they say she's never had a shell in her hands, but, to make up, the lord's hands have " With a short, hoarse growl John Bogdan flew at the humpback's throat, squeezed in his Adam's apple, pressing it into his neck, and held him in a merciless clutch.
Bless my soul, if Lucia did not perk up the second the forelady left, edge over, and direct a volume of Italian at me. What won't green earrings do! Old Mrs. Reilly called out, “Ach, the poor soul's found a body to talk to at last!” But, alas! Lucia's hope was short lived. “What!” called Mrs. Reilly, “you ain't Eyetalian?
Mary had had consumption, and all day long you might hear her coughing as she worked; of late she had been going all to pieces, and when Marija came, the "forelady" had suddenly decided to turn her off. The forelady had to come up to a certain standard herself, and could not stop for sick people, Jadvyga explained.
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