:42:01
All right, go on. Nobody's stopping you.
:42:04
- Yeah, but what about this?
- I ain't gonna rile you. Go on.
:42:08
Wait a minute, buddy. You just done
some jackassin'. You can't shut up now.
:42:13
It says they need 800 pickers. You laugh
and say they don't. Which one's the liar?
:42:17
- How many of you all got them handbills?
- I got one.
:42:20
- I got one.
- We all got one.
:42:23
- What does that prove?
- There you are. Same yellow handbill.
:42:29
800 pickers wanted.
:42:31
All right, the man wants 800 men.
So he prints 5,000 handbills
:42:35
and maybe 20,000 people see 'em.
:42:38
And maybe two or 3,000 people start west
on account of that handbill.
:42:42
Two or 3,000 people that are crazy with worry
:42:45
heading out for 800 jobs.
Now, does that make sense?
:42:49
Say, what are you, a troublemaker?
You sure you ain't one of them labour fakes?
:42:53
I... I swear I ain't, mister.
:42:55
Don't you go around here
trying to stir up any trouble.
:43:00
I tried to tell you folks
what it took me a year to find out.
:43:04
Took two kids dead. Took my wife dead to
show me. But nobody could tell me neither.
:43:10
I can't tell you about them little fellows laying
in the tent with their bellies swelled out
:43:15
and just skin over their bones.
:43:17
Shivering and whining like pups.
:43:20
And me running around looking for work.
:43:23
Not for money. Not for wages.
:43:26
Just for a cup of flour and a spoon of lard.
:43:29
Then the coroner come.
:43:31
"Them children died of heart failure," he said.
He put it down in his paper.
:43:36
Heart failure?
:43:38
And their little bellies
stuck out like a pig bladder.
:43:44
Well, it's late. I got to get some sleep.
:43:49
Well...
:43:51
Good night, folks.