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Updated: June 20, 2025
He had, after all, descended to explanation. "It amounts to my either reducing the wage-list or closing the factory altogether," he continued. "For my own good I ought to close the factory altogether, but I thought I would give the men a chance." Robert thought by saying that he must have finally settled matters.
"What's the matter, Ellen?" she asked, in her little, hoarse voice. Fanny and Andrew, who had just entered, stood waiting. Ellen bent over her shoe, drawing in the strings firmly and evenly. "Mr. Lloyd has reduced the wage-list," she said. "How much?" asked Andrew, in a hoarse voice. "Ten per cent." There was a dead silence.
"If I had been my uncle instead of myself I should simply have shut down with no ado," said Robert, presently, in an angry, argumentative voice. "I suppose you would; and as it was?" "As it was, I thought I would give them a chance. Good God, Risley, I have been running the factory at a loss for a month as it is. With this new wage-list I should no more than make expenses, if I did that.
Ellen walked away from him swiftly and went to the row of lasting-machines where Amos Lee and Tom Peel stood. She walked up to them and spoke in a loud, clear voice. "You are not going to give in?" said she. "You don't mean to give in?" Lee turned and gave her one stare, and left his machine. "Not another stitch of work will I do under this new wage-list, so help me, God!" he proclaimed.
Ellen pressed closely, and saw what it was a reduced wage-list. Then she went to her machine. Ellen had a judicial turn of mind, as her school-master had once said of her. She was able to look at matters from more than one stand-point, but she reasoned with a New Testament clearness of impartiality.
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