GIBSON: Why?
FRANKEL: "_Why_," Mr. Gibson! Did you want to know _why_?
GIBSON: Yes, I do. You men signed an agreement with me just eleven days
ago--
FRANKEL [_hotly protesting_]: But we never understood it when we signed
it. How'd we know what we was signing?
GIBSON: Can't you read, Frankel?
FRANKEL: What's reading got to do with it, when it reads all one way?
GIBSON: Didn't you understand it, Carter?
CARTER: Well--I can't say I did.
GIBSON: _Why_ can't you say it? It was plain black and white.
CARTER: Well, I was kind o' foggy about the overtime.
GIBSON: The agreement was that you were to have time and a half for
overtime. What was foggy about that?
CARTER: Well, I don't say you didn't give us what we was askin' right
_then_; but things have changed since then.
GIBSON: What's changed in eleven days?
FRANKEL [_hotly_]: What's changed? How about them men in the finishin'
department that do piecework?
GIBSON: Well, what's changed about them?
FRANKEL: Well, something _is_ goin' to change over there.
GIBSON: We're talking about your department not understanding the
agreement. What's the finishing department got to do with that?
FRANKEL: Well, they're kickin', too, you bet!
GIBSON: I'm dealing with your kick now.
CARTER: Well, o' course we got to stand with them; if they do piecework
overtime they don't get no more for it.
GIBSON: I'll deal with them separately.
FRANKEL: My goodness, Mr. Gibson, you got to deal with us, too! Not a
one of us understood what our last agreement with you was.
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