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ship!"

The crowd is gettin' pretty worked up now, and there's
a lot of drink buyin' and back slappin' goin' on when
someone just has to raise a discouragin' word.

"So what's to stop 'em from just hiring a new work
force if we hold out?"




30

Robert Aspirin

That is Sion talkin'. As you may have noticed, he
don't mouth off near as much as Roxie does, but when
he opens up, the other worker types are inclined to listen.
This time is no exception, and the room starts to quiet
down as the worker types try to focus on this new prob-
lem.

"C'mon, Sion," Roxie sez, tryin' to laugh it off.
"What idiots would work for these wages under these

conditions?"

"Roxie, we've been doing just that for years! I don't

think they'll have any more trouble finding a new work
force than they had finding the old one."

I decided it was time I took a hand in the proceedin's.

"There are a few things you are overlookin', Sion,"
I sez. "First off, it will take time to hire and train a new
work force, and durin' that time the plant ain't producin'
Doggie Doodle to sell, which means the owner is losin'
money which he does not like to do."

Sion just shrugged at that one.

"True enough, but he'd probably rather take the short-
term loss of a shutdown than the long-term expense of
giving us higher wages."

' 'Which brings up the other thing you're overlookin'.''

"Which is?"