The other foremen will be able to handle the rest of the disgruntled ones.
However, as I have told you, if any man claims that he is unjustly treated, send him to headquarters for a chance at reinstatement." General Manager Ellsworth had heard the conversation, but had not interfered.

As soon as the young engineers were alone he joined them at table, saying: "Aren't you afraid, Reade, that these discharged men will hasten to join our enemies ?" "That is very likely, sir," Tom answered.

"These missing men, however, have shown their willingness to become our enemies by leaving camp and seeking their pleasures in the strongholds of the scoundrels who are fighting to break us up." "That's another way of looking at the matter," assented the general manager.
"I'd much rather have our enemies outside of camp than inside," Reade continued.

"If we took these absentees back after they've been in the company of rascals, then we wouldn't have any means of knowing how many of the absentees had agreed to do treacherous things within the camp.
It would hardly be a wise plan to encourage the breeding of rattlesnakes within the camp limits." It was nearly noon when the first batch of laborers, some American and some Mexican, returned to camp.

These men started to go by the checker's hut at a distance, but keen-eyed Superintendent Hawkins saw them and ordered them around to the hut.
"You'll have to wait here until your foremen are called," declared the checker.
"Say, what's the trouble here!" demanded one American belligerently..