"What do they do in Germany?"
"They have insurance for the unemployed, and when a man's out he gets so-and-so-much a week. We ought to have it in America."
"How can we get it? Who listens to the poor?"
"Your man belongs to a union, doesn't he?"
"Sure!"
"Well, the trouble is our people here don't know these things. If they knew them, they'd get together and make the bosses come round. It's ignorance holding us all back."
"I've often told Tim he ought to study something. There's grand lectures in the schools every Tuesday and Thursday night. But Tim don't put stock in learning. He says learning never bought a glass of beer."
Joe laughed.
"Mrs. Cassidy, that's not what I mean. Listen. I'm a neighbor of yours—live next door—"
"Sure! Didn't I see you move in? When my friend, Mrs. Leupp, seen your iron beds, she up and went to Macy's and bought one herself. What yer doing in there, anyway, with that printing-press? It gives me the trembles."