- Tom Curtis: Shut up! Shut up will you! You don't have to worry about not talking to me. I don't want you to talk to me, do you hear? But you stay away from my family. Just stay away from us!
- Joe Wallace: [Speaking to the group of wildcat strikers] Whatever you think he's done to us, he's paid for it. And the reason he's paid for it is 'cause we let it happen. We sort of just stood by and let it happen. Well, I let it happen just like the rest of you. All I know is I feel like I've done something dirty.
- Anna Curtis: [to Joe] Look! You better look at me! You went out of this house this morning only you couldn't even bring yourself to say 'hello' to me, let alone my husband. Well, I want to tell you something. I don't work at your rotten factory and I don't belong to your little committees and your little unions and nobody is gonna send me to Coventry. I don't want you here anymore. I don't want you near me or my children. I don't want you here in this house anymore. You know something? I feel sorry for you. You can't even think for yourself!
- Anna Curtis: [to Joe] This is a home not a morgue. People talk in this house. They speak to each other. They say, 'good morning' and 'good night.' They don't treat their friends like they have some sort of disease or something.
- Pat: Shall I tell you something?
- Joe Wallace: Yeah, surprise me. You're married with three children.
- Pat: You try too hard.
- Joe Wallace: What do you mean try too hard? Listen, if I was trying hard, I would get somewhere, wouldn't I? Believe me, I'm not trying., It's just I don't like teases.
- Pat: Who's teasing you?
- Joe Wallace: Well, don't let's get into all that. Seriously, what's the matter?
- Pat: You really want to know?
- Joe Wallace: Yeah.
- Pat: Well, from what I've heard, you've been with everything on two legs, wearing lipstick and overage. And you got a couple of them in the family way and you didn't do anything about it. I was told the first day I took the job that you were the one to watch out for. I saw you coming before you saw me and, when I saw you, I didn't care what you had done or what I'd heard because you looked nice and I thought I'd like to go out with you if you liked me and you did ask me , and I still feel that way. But it doesn't mean I'm going to be like all the rest, or you're going to get it the first time, 'cause I want something more than that. If you can't give that to me, better know right away so we don't waste each other's time.
- Joe Wallace: [Gets up to leave] I see. Yes, I see. Well, that just about wraps it up then, doesn't it? Coming?
- Tom Curtis: Well, now. What can I do for you?
- Bert Connolly: Well, it seems like you've already done it. Old Billy tells me you've decided to back us all up at last.
- Tom Curtis: Well, we've decided to stay away from work, yeah, that's right.
- Bert Connolly: Well, it seems a pity that you didn't do that from the beginning, like our brother Joe here.
- Tom Curtis: Yeah, pity all around, isn't it?
- Bert Connolly: Now look, Tom. You know as well as I do that you got to go along with the majority. That's the democratic way. And personally speaking, I was bloody hurt to see you step out of line with them others. Still, that's all over now. We won't bring that up again. What we've got to do now is to show a united front. You made a mistake, but you've been big enough to admit it. I mean I would be the last person in the world to hold that against you. I wouldn't come around here and threaten you or anything like that.
- Tom Curtis: Yeah, well, I'm glad about that.
- Bert Connolly: But I don't mind tellin' you. I've had a bit of trouble with some of the boys down there. They don't like scabbing. Some of them are talking about getting quite rough.
- Tom Curtis: Well, it went a little bit further than talking, didn't it?
- Bert Connolly: How do you mean?
- Tom Curtis: Have they set fire to any good cars lately?
- Bert Connolly: Oh, I don't know anything about that.
- Tom Curtis: No, maybe not. But I just want to make one point. I've got a couple of kids in there fast asleep. They were in there a night ago when the old woman Jackson downstairs got a brick thrown through her window. Now that wasn't meant for her. That was meant for me. They could have come in there.
- Bert Connolly: I tell you I don't know anything about that.
- Tom Curtis: Well, then, I'll put it another way, Bert. You didn't get a brick through your window, did you?
- Bert Connolly: What does that prove?
- Tom Curtis: I'm just telling you. Anyone that interferes with my wife and kids, and I'll start chuckin' a few bricks around.
- Joe Wallace: What do you want to do then?
- Pat: How do you mean?
- Joe Wallace: Well, we can't just lie here all day, not talking or nothing.
- Pat: I don't mind talking.
- Joe Wallace: Well, you know what I mean. Look, what do you think I'm going to do to you? Tear your clothes off, throw you in the bushes or something?