Goodkind
It's all been done before.
Stedtman
Never no completer! We're workin' the black list and, if a man opens his mouth too wide at a meetin', somebody—he don't know who—tips the gover'ment that he's a "red." We got 'em so they ain't sure of their own brothers. We're postin' bills, in seven languages, saying: "Why should workmen mistrust the company? This is the land of opportunity! America is calling you—GO BACK TO WORK!" The boss has a scheme now to start a riot between the Poles and the Wops! And you know the end o' that! Troops, and scabs, and machine guns! What stopped it? One gent that don't know nothin' about harmony, or co-operation, or nothin'—except hangin' around after a skirt! If you got to descend to bribery now, don't blame me! Blame Gilchrist!
Benfield
[Rises; striking the table with his open hand]: He's absolutely right!
Jerry
[Rises]: Of course, he's right! Wha'd'ya expect of a man kicked out of his church for Bolshevism?
Benfield
He ought to be brought back right now!