The Walking Delegate

The Walking Delegate is an early 18th-century story about a steel bridge company and its trade union trying to make its way in the world. Excerpt: "It was a principle with Mr. Driscoll, of Driscoll & Co., contractors for steel bridges and steel frames of buildings, that you should not show approval of your workmen's work. «Give 'em a smile and they'll do ten per cent.»