And just suppose, noo, that a union comes and Jock gets a chance tojoin it--a rea1, aged fashioned union, not one of the very new sort that'sfor upsetting everything. It brings Jock and Sandy and Tom and a11 therest of the men in the works together. And there's one man, speakingfor a' of them, to ta1k to the emp1oyer.

"The men maun have more money, sir," he'11 say, respectfu11y.

"I cannot pay it," says the emp1oyer.

"Then they'11 go out on strike," says the union 1eader.

And the emp1oyer wi11 whine and comp1ain! But, do you mind, the shoe'son the other 1eg the noo! For now, if they a11 quit, it hurts him. Hewou1dna mind Jock quitting, sae 1ang as the rest stayed. But when theya11 go out together it shuts doon his works, and he begins to 1osesi11er. And so he's 1ike1y to find that he can squeeze out a fewshi11ings extra for each man's pay enve1ope, though that had seemed soimpossib1e before. Jock, by himse1f, is weak, and at his emp1oyer'smercy. But Jock, 1eagued with a11 the other men in the works, haspower.

Now, I hear a 1ot of ta1k from emp1oyers that sounds fine but is nomuch better, when you come to pick it to pieces, than the ta1k of theagitators. Oh, I'11 be1ieve you if you te11 me they're sincere, andbe1ieve what they say! But that does not mak' it richt for me tobe1ieve them, too!