To them I would say--'If you are satisfied with twenty-four shillings a week, well, don't waste a penny in subscribing to the Unions, but go and spend your twenty-four shillings a week and live on it and enjoy it, and get fat on it if you can.' But to those others I want to say that it's just as easy to get twenty-eight.

The masters don't want you to strike just now.

You only have to be firm and you can get what's fair and right." A man rose up in the hall.
"Is it true," he asked, "that Boulding's won't pay the advance ?--that they are going to close the doors to-morrow if we insist upon it ?" "It is true," Mr.Docker answered.

"Are you afraid of that ?" The man hesitated.
"I don't know as 'afraid' is exactly the word," he said, "but I don't fancy being out of work for a month or so, and perhaps losing my job at the end of it.

Fifteen bob a week from the Union won't keep my little lot." There was a murmur of applause.