Thus, though he had paid the highest wages, he joined the Mine-owners' Association, engineered the fight, and effectually curbed the growing insubordination of the wage-earners.

Times had changed.

The old days were gone forever.

This was a new era, and Daylight, the wealthy mine-owner, was loyal to his class affiliations.

It was true, the old-timers who worked for him, in order to be saved from the club of the organized owners, were made foremen over the gang of chechaquos; but this, with Daylight, was a matter of heart, not head.