"And when they come home?"
"Pay stops."
"God! how can their women and children live?"
"Nay, now you're asking something. But they're better off than them as waits ashore all winter, and can't get a job."
"Fourteen shillings! Why do they stand it?"
"Because they can't help theirsels. There's too many waiting to take t' place o' them as has a job."
"Have they no trade union?"
"They've trouble enough to keep theirsels in work; who'd keep them if they went on strike?"
"Fourteen shillings a week! It's shameful."