ten o'clock
The committee on resolutions present him with their petition . `` I shall do all that I can to make the Company appreciate the condition in which you are placed . You may depend upon it , there will be work for you before Christmas , '' Trueman assures them at parting . `` We shall want an answer by to-morrow morning at ten o'clock , '' the miners urge in chorus . Harvey Trueman leaves for Wilkes-Barre on the mission of appealing to the humanity of the Coal Magnates . Miners ' wives and children stream to the Town Hall , to receive their bread and rations . It is at such times as these , where the miners are ruthlessly shut out of the mines , that the highest value of the Miner 's Union is demonstrated .