"I seen it from the outside--from the street already--and as varking
delegate it is my duty to call on you a strike," Slotkin concluded.
"What's the matter with the workroom?" Abe asked.
"Well, the neighborhood ain't right," Slotkin explained. "It's a narrow
street already. It should be on a wider street like Nineteenth Street."
He paused to note the effect and Morris grunted involuntarily.
"Also," Slotkin continued, "it needs it light on four sides, and two
elevators."
"And I suppose if we hire it such a loft, Slotkin," Abe broke in, "you
will call off the strike."
"Sure I will call it off the strike," he declared. "It would be my duty
as varking delegate. I moost call it off the strike."
"All right, then," Abe said; "call off the strike. We made up our mind
we will take the loft."
"You mean you will take such a loft what the union agreement calls for
and which I just described it to you," Slotkin corrected in his quality
of walking delegate.
"That's what we mean," Abe replied.
"Why, then, that loft what I called to your attention, as broker, this
morning would be exactly what you would need it!" Slotkin exclaimed, in
the hearty tones of a conscientious man, glad that for once the
performance of his official duty redounded to clean-handed personal
profit.
"Sure," Abe grunted.
"Then, as broker, I tell it you that the leases is ready down at Henry
D. Feldman's office," Slotkin replied, "and as soon as they are signed
the strike is off.
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