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Strife 2O I
think with your gloved hands you can cure the
troubles of the century."
Enid does not know the life of Annie Roberts
class: that it is all a gamble from the
"
time e s
born to the time e dies."
Mrs. Roberts. Roberts says workin folk have al
ways lived from hand to mouth. Sixpence to-day is
worth more than a shillin to-morrow, that s what they
say. . . . He says that when a working man s baby is
born, it s a toss-up from breath to breath whether it ever
draws another, and so on all is life; an when he comes
to be old, it s the workhouse or the grave. He says that
without a man is very near, and pinches and stints imself
and is children to save, there can be neither surplus nor
security. That s why he wouldn t have no children, not
though I wanted them.
The strikers meeting is a masterly study of
mass psychology, the men swayed hither and
thither by the different speakers and not knowing
whither to go. It is the smooth-tongued Harness
who first weakens their determination to hold out.
Harness. Cut your demands to the right pattern, and
we ll see you through; refuse, and don t expect rne to
waste my time coming down here again. I m not the
sort that speaks at random, as you ought to know by
this time. If you re the sound men I take you for no
matter who advises you against it you ll make up your
minds to come in, and trust to us to get your terms.
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