d to think that they had been
able to help to bring it about. It was very gratifying to see the good
feeling that existed between Mr Rushton and his workmen, which was as
it should be, because masters and men was really fellow workers--the
masters did the brain work, the men the 'and work. They was both
workers, and their interests was the same. He liked to see men doing
their best for their master and knowing that their master was doing his
best for them, that he was not only a master, but a friend. That was
what he (Grinder) liked to see--master and men pulling together--doing
their best, and realizing that their interests was identical.
(Cheers.) If only all masters and men would do this they would find
that everything would go on all right, there would be more work and
less poverty. Let the men do their best for their masters, and the
masters do their best for their men, and they would find that that was
the true solution of the social problem, and not the silly nonsense
that was talked by people what went about with red flags. (Cheers and
laughter.) Most of those fellows were chaps who was too lazy to work
for their livin'. (Hear, hear.) They could take it from him that, if
ever the Socialists got the upper hand there would just be a few of the
hartful dodgers who would get all the cream, and there would be nothing
left but 'ard work for the rest. (Hear. hear.) That's wot hall those
hagitators was after: they wanted them (his hearers) to work and keep
'em in idleness. (Hear, hear.) On behalf of Mr Didlum, Mr Toonarf, Mr
Lettum and himself, he thanked them for their good wishes, and hoped to
be with them on a sim'ler occasion in the future.

Loud cheers greeted the termination of his speech, but it was obvious
from some of the men's faces that they resented Grinder's remarks.
These men ridiculed Socialism and regularly voted for the continuance
of capitalism, and yet they were disgusted and angry with Grinder!
There was also a small number of Socialists--not more than half a dozen
altogether--who did not join in the applause. These men were all
sitting at the end of the long table presided over by Payne. None of
them had joined in the applause that greeted the speeches, and so far
neither had they made any protest. Some of them turned very red as
they listened to the concluding sentences of Grinder's oration, and
others laughed, but none of them said anything. They knew before they
came that there wa