1 He never missed a meeting, however.
2 The chairman of the meeting came forward and began to speak.
3 Jurgis too had an adventure the first time he attended a union meeting, but it was not of his own seeking.
4 In the end Jurgis got a chance through an accidental meeting with an old-time acquaintance of his union days.
5 Ostrinski would take him to the next meeting of the branch local, and introduce him, and he might join the party.
6 And so, at last, when the meeting broke up, and the audience started to leave, poor Jurgis was in an agony of uncertainty.
7 It really broke his heart to do this, at half-past twelve o'clock, after he had wasted the night at the meeting and on the street.
8 There was no red fire and no band now, but there was a sign out, announcing a meeting, and a stream of people pouring in through the entrance.
9 Jurgis was even glad that he had not seen the place before meeting with his triumph, for he felt that the size of it would have overwhelmed him.
10 The hall was now filled to the doors; and after the meeting it would be too late for him to go home, so he would have to make the best of it outside.
11 They could not understand why the union had not prevented it, and the very first time she attended a meeting Marija got up and made a speech about it.
12 At eleven the meeting closed, and the desolate audience filed out into the snow, muttering curses upon the few traitors who had got repentance and gone up on the platform.
13 But suddenly he stood up again, and Jurgis heard the chairman of the meeting saying that the speaker would now answer any questions which the audience might care to put to him.
14 She agreed in everything with Jurgis, except the need of his paying his dues; and she would even go to a meeting with him now and then, and sit and plan her next day's dinner amid the storm.
15 He was a great fellow to jolly along a crowd, and would keep a meeting in an uproar; when once he got really waked up, the torrent of his eloquence could be compared with nothing save Niagara.
16 It was a business meeting, and was transacted in English, but that made no difference to Marija; she said what was in her, and all the pounding of the chairman's gavel and all the uproar and confusion in the room could not prevail.
17 So he had set to work to organize the mill hands, after the fashion in Massachusetts, and had been discharged; but he had gotten other work, and stuck at it, and at last there had been a strike for shorter hours, and Harry Adams had attempted to address a street meeting, which was the end of him.
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