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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: call them out to-day."
Bill usually went away cursing me as the friend of the "plutes"
and the enemy of labor. "I'll get you yet," he'd say, "you black-
headed buzzard."
And so while I was making enemies among many of the men who
thought I wasn't standing up for their rights, I was making
myself even more unpopular with the owners by sticking up too
firmly for the rights of the men. They told me they believed I
knew as much about the tin plate business as any man in the
trade. This knowledge would enable me to do better in the
distributing end of the business, while as a worker I could only
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