Vincent. She don't play the game. She does as she bloomin' well likes. She wouldn't engage my old woman. She took women from Duriot's.
Girard [to Thérèse] That's it. It's you that's doing it. [To the women] You've got to ask the same wages as us.
Thérèse. You know very well—
Girard [interrupting] It's all along of your damned Union.
Vincent. There wasn't any ructions till you come.
Charpin. We'll smash the Hens' Union.
A row begins and increases.
A Man. Put 'em through it! Down 'em! Smash the Hens! Smash 'em!
A Woman. Turn out the lazy swines!
A Woman [half mad with excitement] We're fightin' for our kids. [She shrieks this phrase continuously during the noise which follows]