 Blankenhorn, in his history of the strike, wrote, "The super began a conciliatory speech of promises of good treatment, 'What's the good of that?We've heard that bull for ten years,' cried Gregory...'If you don't go to work, I'll shut down this mine till the grass grows over the drift mouth,' [the super responded]...A boy miner, DiGiancomo, shouted back, 'I'll eat that grass before I'll scab.