seven o'clock
We got to break up the system . That 's a fact . Some of these days we got to break up the system . '' * * * * * Jim Gibson got to the door of Joe 's shop at half-past seven o'clock . Several men stood on the sidewalk and he stopped and stood before them , intending to tell again the story of his triumph over his employer . Inside the shop Joe was already at his bench and at work . The men , two of them strikers from the corn-cutting machine plant , complained bitterly of the difficulty of supporting their families , and a third man , a fellow with a big black mustache who smoked a pipe , began to repeat some of the axioms in regard to industrialism and the class war he had picked up from the socialist orator .