Did you ever see such luck
I'll have to give up striking
Just to show folks that I've struck!"
THE LADY-"So you're really one of the strikers?"
THE LOAFER-"Yus, lidy. I'm wot they call one o' the pioneers o' the movement. I went on strike twenty-three years ago, lidy, and I ain't never give in yet."
A strike is not a "brake on industry." It's a displaced switch.
THE FATHER—"But have you enough money to marry my daughter?"