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"Hurrah for the union! Hurrah for the United Mine-Workers!" A big American miner, Ferris, was in the front of the throng, and his voice beat in Hal's ears like a steam-siren. "Boys," Hal resumed, when at last he could be heard, "use your brains a moment. I warned you they would try to provoke you! They would like nothing better than to start a scrap here, and get a chance to smash our union!
Among these the most catholic in membership are such broadly organized occupations as the united mine-workers, the garment-workers, the ladies' garment-workers, the iron, steel and tin-plate workers.
They would have an end to the business of discharging men because they asked for their rights, of blacklisting men and driving them out of the district because they presumed to want what the laws of the state awarded them! How long could a man expect to stand on the steps of a company building, with a super and a pit-boss at his back, and organise a union of mine-workers?
They think they'll break our strike that way but they'll find they've made a mistake!" "They will! Right you are!" roared a score of voices. "They forget that we've got a union. Hurrah for our North Valley union!" "Hurrah! Hurrah!" The cry echoed to the canyon-walls. "And hurrah for the big union that will back us the United Mine-Workers of America!" Again the yell rang out; again and again.
"I'll keep mum," said Hal; and the stranger opened a flap inside his shirt, and drew out a letter which certified him to be Thomas Olson, an organiser for the United Mine-Workers, the great national union of the coal-miners! Hal was so startled by this discovery that he stopped in his tracks and gazed at the man.
And he went on to drive the lesson home; even though the company might evict them, the big union of the four hundred and fifty thousand mine-workers of the country would feed them, it would call out the rest of the workers in the district in sympathy. So the bosses, who thought to starve and cow them into submission, would find their mines lying permanently idle.
The steam-siren of Ferris bellowed again: "You're the boy! Joe Smith!" "All right, men now mind what I say! I'll see the super, and then I'll go down to Pedro, where there'll be some officers of the United Mine-workers this morning. I'll tell them the situation, and ask them to back you. That's what you want, is it?" That was what they wanted. "Big union!" "All right.
Five hundred volunteer mine-workers built the road from Harrison Lake to Lillooet in 1858 at the rate of ten miles a day; and when the road was opened in September, packers' charges fell from a dollar to forty-eight cents and finally to eighteen cents a pound. But presently the trend of travel drew away from Harrison Lake to the line of the Fraser.
Suppose Hal's money-resources were to be cut off, suppose he were to find himself left out of his father's will what would he do then? Hal answered, without a smile, "I can always get a job as organiser for the United Mine-Workers." So Edward gave up that line of attack. "If you won't come," he declared, "I'm going to stay by you till you do!" "All right," said Hal.
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