The Americans

by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker

Now shut your mouths.

First Sentry.

I'm not through with this yet.

(Picks up his rifle and goes back on his beat)

Second Sentry.

Damn pretty soldier you are.

Haskell.

Do you hear?

(Militiamen are seen climbing on top of the lumber stacks. Others appear at the gate. Captain Haskell walks left where a noise is heard down the street. Presently a squad of militia enters with fifteen or twenty strike-breakers. Behind them, with the officer in charge, comes Jergens, who is speaking to the crowd of strikers that follows. In front of the crowd walks Sam Williams. Mingling among the men are seen Dicey, King, and Masters. Some women and children straggle in and linger, left. On this side of the crowd, silent, watching everything, is Harvey Anderson)