STRIKE 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 as 
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 
