"THE SOUTHERN MILL-HAND'S FACE IS UNIQUE, A FEARFUL TYPE"
Jones himself, mark you, is emancipated! He has set himself free; but he is still a too-evident although a very innocent partisan of the corporation.
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I think," he says, "that the mill-hand is meaner to the corporation than the corporation is to the mill-hand."
"Why?"
"Why, they would strike for shorter hours and better pay."
Unconsciously with one word he condemns his own cause.
"What's the use of these hyar mill-hands tryin' to fight corporations? Why, Excelsior is the biggest mill under one roof in the world; its capital is over a million; it has 24,500 spindles. The men that run these mills have got all their stuff paid for; they've got piles of money. What do they care for a few penniless lot of strikers? They can shut down and not feel it. Why, these hyar people might just as well fight against a stone wall."