I want these rats to come out of their holes and stand upon this floor.

Who was the first man that suggested this strike?
I want to see the color of his hair.

Stand up, if he's in the hall.

If he isn't here, why isn't he ?" No one answered.
"If this strike was called by outsiders," I cried, "why don't the outsiders do the striking?
Whose jobs will be lost in this strike--our jobs or the outsiders' jobs?
If the man who started this strike has a job that won't be lost in the strike, then I claim that we have made a bad mistake.

And if we're making a mistake, men, what are we going to do about it ?" I sat down, exhausted by the first attempt at public pleading I had ever made.