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198 John Galsworthy
months and are in a condition of semi-starvation.
On the other hand there is David Roberts, an un
compromising revolutionist, whose devotion to
the workers and the cause of freedom is at red-
white heat. Between them are the strikers, worn
and weary with the terrible struggle, driven and
tortured by the awful sight of poverty at home.
At a directors meeting, attended by the Com
pany s representatives from London, Edgar An
thony, the President s son and a man of kindly
feeling, pleads in behalf of the strikers.
Edgar. I don t see how we can get over it that to go
on like this means starvation to the men s wives and fam
ilies ... It won t kill the shareholders to miss a divi
dend or two; I don t see that that s reason enough for
knuckling under.
Wilder. H m! Shouldn t be a bit surprised if that
brute Roberts hadn t got us down here with the very
same idea. I hate a man with a grievance.
Edgar. We didn t pay him enough for his discovery.
I always said that at the time.
Wilder. We paid him five hundred and a bonus of
two hundred three years later. If that s not enough!
What does he want, for goodness sake?
Tench. Company made a hundred thousand out of his
brains, and paid him seven hundred that s the way he
goes on, sir.
Wilder. The man s a rank agitator! Look here, I
hate the Unions. But now we ve got Harness here let s
get him to settle the whole thing.
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