We PAN to see Joe as he takes stage for the first time, wading into the midst of the miners, voice full of fire --

JOE
You want to be treated like men? You want to be treated fair? Well you aint men to that coal company, you're equipment, like a shovel or a gondola car or a hunk of wood brace. They'll use you till you wear out or you break down or you're buried under a slate fall and then they'll get a new one, and they don't care what color it is or where it comes from.

Joe moves among the men, looking into their faces --

JOE
It doesn't matter how much coal you can load or how long your family's lived on this land -- if you stand alone you're just so much shit to those people!

Joe points to Few Clothes --

JOE
You think this man is your enemy? This is a worker! Any union keeps man out aint a union it's a goddam club! They got you fightin white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there aint but two sides in this world -- them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you get to know about the enemy.