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Strife 199
Harness, the trade union official, speaks in
favor of compromise. In the beginning of the
strike the union had withdrawn its support, be
cause the workers had used their own judgment in
deciding to strike.
Harness. I m quite frank with you. We were forced
to withhold our support from your men because some of
their demands are in excess of current rates. I expect to
make them withdraw those demands to-day. . . . Now, I
want to see something fixed upon before I go back to
night. Can t we have done with this old-fashioned tug-
of-war business? What good s it doing you? Why
don t you recognize once for all that these people are
men like yourselves, and want what s good for them just
as you want what s good for you. . . . There s just one
very simple question I d like to put to you. Will you pay
your men one penny more than they force you to pay
them?
Of course not. With trade unionism lacking
in true solidarity, and the workers not conscious
of their power, why should the Company pay one
penny more? David Roberts is the only one who
fully understands the situation.
Roberts. Justice from London? What are you talk
ing about, Henry Thomas? Have you gone silly? We
know very well what we are discontented dogs
never satisfied. What did the Chairman tell me up in
London? That I didn t know what I was talking about.
I was a foolish, uneducated man, that knew nothing of
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