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Now, you just speak up! Do you think those loafers are right, or don't you? Come!" Conrad apparently judged it best to speak.
"I think they were very foolish to strike--at this time, when the Elevated roads can do the work." "Oh, at this time, heigh! And I suppose they think over there on the East Side that it 'd been wise to strike before we got the Elevated." Conrad again refused to answer, and his father roared, "What do you think ?" "I think a strike is always bad business.
It's war; but sometimes there don't seem any other way for the workingmen to get justice.
They say that sometimes strikes do raise the wages, after a while." "Those lazy devils were paid enough already," shrieked the old man. "They got two dollars a day.
How much do you think they ought to 'a' got? Twenty ?" Conrad hesitated, with a beseeching look at his father.
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