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Yet Sally was quite calm; her heart did not seem to miss a beat; her brain was not confused by a rush of blood. She knew what she was doing. She climbed that first flight of semi-circular stairs without hindrance, secretly hoping that by no mischance either Marrin or one of his sub-bosses might emerge. There was a door at the first landing. She passed it quickly and started up the second flight.
He came to Joe while the great cloak-makers' strike was still on, at a time when families were reduced almost to starvation, and when the cause seemed quite hopeless. Theodore Marrin came in a beautiful heavy automobile.
Blaine is right!" Marrin tried to shout: "I order you to get to work!" But a tumult drowned his voice, a busy clamor, an exultant jabber of tongues, a rising, a shuffling, a moving about. Sally marched down the aisle. "Follow me, girls! We're going to have a union!"
"What d'ye call yourself, then Republican?" "No." "Democrat?" "No." "Insurgent?" "No." Marrin was horror-stricken. "Not a blooming anarchist?" Joe laughed. "No, not an anarchist." "What are you, then? Nothing?" "I can tell you what I'm not," said Joe. "What?" "I'm not any kind of an ist." "A fine fellow!" cried Marrin. "Why, a man's got to stand for something."
Don't go back like this! Get something! Don't you see that Marrin is ready to give in? Are you going back like weak slaves?" They did not heed him; but one old man paused and put a hand on his shoulder. "This will teach you not to be so rash next time. You will learn yet." And they were gone. Izon was dazed, heart-broken. He hurried home to his wife and wept upon her shoulder.
Judy an' her dam will hould me for a promust man, an' Dinah will give me the go, an' I desarve ut. I will go an' get dhrunk, sez I, 'an' forget about ut, for 'tis plain I'm not a marrin' man. "On my way to canteen I ran against Lascelles, color-sergeant that was av E Comp'ny, a hard, hard man, wid a torment av a wife.
"So, that's it!" he snapped. "Well, here's my answer. Go back to your work!" The men had stopped working and were listening. The air was electric, ominous. Izon spoke tremblingly. "I am very sorry then. I must announce that the men have struck!" Marrin glared at him. "Very well! And get out quick!" He turned and walked away, flaming with rage.
"I do," said Joe, "I stand for human beings and sometimes," he chuckled, "I stand for a whole lot!" Marrin laughed, so did Sally. "Clever!" cried Marrin. "Damned clever! You're cleverer than I thought hide your scheme up, don't you? Well! well! Let me see your plant!" Joe showed him about, and Marrin kept patting him on the back: "Delightful! Fine! You're my style, Mr.
Theodore Marrin, you have betrayed your employees. And then farther down: No decent human being would work for such a man. He has no right to be an employer not in such hands should be placed the sacred welfare of men and women. If I were one of Marrin's employees I would prefer the streets to his shop. Marrin looked up at the forty-four.
The sad Slate was paralyzed; Billy was joyous. But Joe strode into the kitchen, where his mother was quietly reading at the window. "What is it, Joe?" "Mother," he said, "that fellow Marrin was in threatening to sue me for libel." "Could it hurt you?" "It might. Speaking the truth is always libelous." Joe's mother spoke softly. "Your father lost an arm in the war.
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