Could we hope to win a strike at a time like that when the mills were on the verge of closing because of bad business?
While the speakers were presenting the reasons for the strike I noticed that not a man examined or discussed the dangers in it.

The mind of the meeting was made up.

I was talking to the fellow who sat beside me, and I told him what my father had written me.
"I agree," he said.

"A strike at a time like this doesn't seem to be the right thing to do." "If you don't think it a wise move," I said, "why don't you get up and say so.

For this meeting is going to vote strike in the next two minutes, sure as fate." "I can't make a speech," he said.