RILEY: Yes, it might.

MIFFLIN [confidently]: Let me go talk to these new comrades!

RILEY: Comrades? Frankel's wops? Ha, ha!

SALVATORE: Aw, them ain't comrades; them's just Frankel's hired workers.

MIFFLIN: They are comrades in the best sense of the word. I am in touch with all the groups. A moment's reasoning from one they know to be sympathetic—

[He goes out into the factory.]

SALVATORE: Hey, let's get that stuff divided up. I got an engagement.

FRANKEL: Yes; let's hurry. You can't tell what they got planted round here.

CARTER [rapping]: The meeting will please come to—

SALVATORE: Here, cut that out! We ain't got no time to—