JOE
-- they had strikebreaker written all over them.

SEPHUS
Down here hit's the Baldwin-Felts that they use. They's just gun thugs, though.

JOE
They'll have the chief of police deputize them and all the company's mine guards -- so we won't just have to fight the operators, we'll have to fight the law --

SEPHUS
Not Sid.

JOE
I never known a small-town bull that wasn't in their pocket.

SEPHUS
(adamant) Not Sid.