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Since September he had thus at last been able to establish his famous provident fund, which was still very precarious, only including the inhabitants of the settlement; but he hoped to be able to obtain the adhesion of the miners at all the pits, especially if the Company, which had remained passive, continued not to interfere.
As the Company did not dare to rest in this way, terrified at the ruinous inaction, they were meditating a middle course, perhaps a strike, from which the miners would come out crushed and worse paid.
In fact, Pluchart, in despair at the suspicion which the International aroused among the miners at Montsou, was hoping to see them enter in a mass if they were forced to fight against the Company.
Bands of miners arrived from all the settlements.
But it was especially the estaminets and the bars which did a good trade, for the miners before being paid went to the counters to get patience, and returned to them to wet their pay as soon as they had it in their pockets.
On the forms along the wall five or six miners were waiting; while the cashier assisted by a clerk was paying another who stood before the wicket with his cap in his hand.
It was a notice from the Company to the miners of all the pits, informing them that in consequence of the lack of care bestowed on the timbering, and being weary of inflicting useless fines, the Company had resolved to apply a new method of payment for the extraction of coal.
The Company was economizing out of the miners' pockets.
Blinded and choked, the miners came from every part, even from the farthest stalls, with their dancing lamps which feebly lighted up this gallop of black men at the bottom of these molehills.
From each end the miners attacked the landslip with pick and shovel.
Then behind followed the row of miners, some fifty shadows in single file.
Outside, putters, miners, and boys were running about, forming groups and talking in a low voice.
Some putters were still standing at the door talking with some miners who were waiting about to look on.
It was now quite night, the exhausted miners were at last eating their soup, and the settlement had fallen into a melancholy silence, only disturbed by these loud outcries.
When, on the 1st of December, the Company had adopted the new wage system, the miners remained calm.
Just then, still retaining the smile which illuminated his good-natured face, M. Grégoire was going beyond his wife in paternal sentiments with regard to the miners.
In his mouth the miners' claims would carry decisive weight.
And the miners, when left alone, in their embarrassment did not dare to sit; all of them very clean, dressed in cloth, shaven that morning, with their yellow hair and moustaches.
The miners turned round looking for seats.
Voices rose among the miners.
And the miners now looked at him with distrust, asking themselves what interest he might have in lying, and what he would get by thus putting himself between them and the real masters.
Chapter 3A FORTNIGHT had passed, and on the Monday of the third week the lists sent up to the managers showed a fresh decrease in the number of the miners who had gone down.
It was expected that on that morning work would be resumed, but the obstinacy of the directors in not yielding exasperated the miners.
But now all their resources were exhausted; the miners had no more money to keep up the strike, and hunger was there, threatening them.
To carry on an extensive correspondence, to discuss the fate of the workers in the four corners of the province, to give advice to the Voreux miners, especially to become a centre and to feel the world rolling round him--continually swelled the vanity of the former engineman, the pike-man with greasy black hands.
It was a question of organizing a private meeting over which the mechanic would preside; and beneath this plan lay the idea of exploiting the strike, to gain over to the International these miners who so far had shown themselves suspicious.
He knew not even how it had happened, this friendliness of the settlement, the confidence of the miners, the power which he now had over them.
About a hundred miners were waiting on the benches in the close air of the room, with the warm odours of the last ball rising from the floor.
And in this case he showed the International as providence for strikers, and quoted examples: in Paris, during the strike of the bronze-workers, the masters had granted everything at once, terrified at the news that the International was sending help; in London it had saved the miners at a colliery, by sending back, at its own expense, a ship-load of Belgians who had been brought over by the coal-owner.
A spy must have talked, for he cried that the meeting was illegal, a large number of miners being there without any letter of invitation.
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