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Updated: May 29, 2025
Why, the dirty little Intelligencer come out this morning an' said that every union official in Oakland ought to be run outa town or stretched up. Fine, eh? You bet it's fine. "Look at us. It ain't a case any more of sympathetic strike for the mill-workers. We got our own troubles. They've fired our four best men the ones that was always on the conference committees. Did it without cause.
But other thoughts came to him too: the vision of converting that melancholy pleasure-ground into an outlet for the cramped lives of the mill-workers; and he pictured the weed-grown lawns and paths thronged with holiday-makers, and the slopes nearer the factories dotted with houses and gardens. An unexpected event revived these hopes.
Westmore lingered on for over two weeks, and during that time Amherst was able, in various directions, to develop her interest in the mill-workers.
"I have watched them," the mother admitted. "They are as quick as as mill-workers!" "Well," pursued Diantha, "they spend three hours on dishes and tables, and seven on cleaning. The bedrooms take 280 minutes; that's nearly five hours. The other two are for the bath rooms, halls, stairs, downstairs windows, and so on. That's all right.
The banker owned bonds and if he died the bonds would go right on earning money for his children. These men were capitalists and their future was provided for. Most of the mill-workers were only laborers, they had no capital and the minute their labors ended they were done for.
Now I consider myself, and the class I represent, as beings much more valuable to the world than, let's say, your factory-hands, your mill-workers, your hewers of wood and drawers of water.
And the diamonds for they are diamonds, right enough will go into his pocket, or on to his wife's neck. I know what's what! I wasn't born down in these parts." "You don't know Mr. Gordon!" said Mary, warmly. "That isn't the way he is thought of by those who do know him." The clerk was a newcomer from another State, and was not liked by the mill-workers.
Some young girls, mill-workers with shawls over their heads, pressed close on the Admiral's heels. Bob gave an order to his men, and they drew up across the end of our embankment. Bob and the Admiral passed through the line. The crowd stopped. The launch drew to shore again. The Admiral stepped on board her, and she steamed away. The crowd hung around the end of our embankment.
You've less chances of getting on in the world; but I declare to you, if you're bad and godless as some of you are I think there's a precious sight less excuse for you than there is for the mill-hands! And with a startling vehemence, greater by far than he had shown in the case of the mill-workers, he threw himself on the vices and the callousness of the field-labourers.
"If you dare to injure her," shouted Jem, as he was dragged away, "I will wait you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two!" The mill-workers had struck against low wages. Five haggard, earnest- looking men had presented the workpeople's demands to the assembled mill-owners, and the demands had been rejected.
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