The Boldness of Betty by Anna Carey
Author:Anna Carey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Fourteen
Itâs three days since the tram men walked out, and Dublin feels very peculiar right now. I said this to Samira this morning, when I walked into McGrathâs shop on my way to the picket line.
âItâs peculiar in here, anyway,â said Samira, as she rubbed at the worn shop counter with an old rag and the remains of a battered tin of lavender polish. âWe barely sold a thing yesterday, only tobacco and a few tins of condensed milk. All the women are trying to save their pennies in case more strikes are on the way.â She scrubbed at a particularly greasy spot on the counter. âMrs McGrath is talking about closing the shop in the afternoons. Most of our sales are in the mornings.â
âWhatâll you do then?â I said. âWill you still have a job?â
âMaybe.â Samira looked absently at the cloth in her hand and then back at the counter. âHave I cleaned this bit before?â
âSamira!â I snatched the cloth out of her hand. âYouâre away with the fairies again.â
âIâll be grand,â Samira assured me. âSure, I can work only mornings for a few days. And itâll give me time to practise my lines. It wonât be forever.â
âI dunno,â I said. âIt doesnât feel like Mr Murphy and his pals are going to give in any time soon.â
It really doesnât. The tram workers are still out on strike â or at least a good lot of them are. They went on a big parade through the centre of the city on Wednesday. It was a grand sight, all of them marching past our picket line and around OâConnell Street like a veritable army, with their union badges in their buttonholes, singing new words to the tune of âA Long Way To Tipperaryâ:
Itâs the wrong thing to crush the workers
Itâs the wrong thing to do
Itâs the right thing to wipe out tyrants
Murphy and his crew!
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