STEIKE AT GORDON'S MINE 239 



Things had gone on in this way for six weeks. 

 The men grew more and more restless and more 

 dissipated. Again the walking delegate came 

 to encourage them to hold out. Mounted on an 

 empty coal car, he made an inflammatory speech 

 to the men, advising them not only to hold out 

 against the owner, but also to prevent the em- 

 ployment of any other help. If this should not 

 prove sufficient, he advised them to wreck the 

 mining property and to fire the mine, anything 

 to bring the owner to terms. 



Jack and Jarvis went for a long walk one 

 day, and their route took them near Gordonville. 

 Seeing the men collected in such numbers around 

 a coal car, they approached, and heard the last 

 half of this inflammatory speech. As the walk- 

 ing delegate finished, Jack jumped up on the car, 

 and said : 



McGinnis has had his say ; now, men, let me 

 have mine. There are always two sides to a 

 question. You have heard one, let me give you 

 the other. I am a delegate, self-appointed, from 

 the amalgamated Order of Thinkers, and I want 

 you to listen to our view of this strike, and of 

 all strikes. I want you also to think a little a? 

 well as to listen. 



"You have been led into this position by a 

 man whose sole business is to foment discords 

 between working-men and their employers. The 

 moment these discords cease, that moment this 

 man loses his job and must work or starve like 



