HILLMAN (stroking his moustache). That's so
GEORGE. I'll tell you who have thought about it--the Bolshevists and the
I. W. W. And because they have a programme,--some programme, any
programme, they're more intelligent than we, for the time.
RENCH. Those guys?
GEORGE. Exactly,--those guys. At least they see that the house isn't
fit to live in. They want to pull it down, and go back to living in
trees and caves.
HILLMAN. That's about right.
GEORGE. But you're conservatives, you labour union people--the
aristocrats of labour, which means that you don't think. What you really
object to, when you come down to it, is that men like my father and me,
and the bankers,--we're all in the same boat, most of 'us own banks,
too,--control the conditions of life for you and men like you.
RENCH. I never heard it put in those words, but by gum, it's so.
GEORGE. And your Confederation, your unions are for the skilled workers,
whose conditions aren't so bad,--and they're getting better every time
you jack up the wages. You complain that we employers aren't thinking of
you, but are you thinking of the millions of the unskilled who live from
hand to mouth? The old structure's good enough for you, too.
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