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But it would be a large-minded man who could overlook what Peterson had done . However , there was no help for it . All that remained was to wait till the business agent should make the next move . So Bannon put the whole incident out of his mind , and until noon inspected the job in earnest . By the time the whistle blew , every one of the hundreds of men on the job , save Peterson himself , knew that there was a new boss . There was no formal assumption of authority ; Bannon 's supremacy was established simply by the obvious fact that he was the man who knew how . Systematizing the confusion in one corner , showing another gang how to save handling a big stick twice , finally putting a runway across the drillage of the annex , and doing a hundred little things between times , he made himself master .