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1. Despite Maheude’s fears and his own doubts, Maheu accepts the task of speaking for the miners.
2. Twenty delegates agree on their demands and visit M. Hennebeau, whose luxurious drawing room initially intimidates them.
3. Maheu describes hunger and inadequate wages, rejects the new payment system, and demands five additional centimes per tram.
4. Étienne disputes Hennebeau’s defense of company benefits and rejects company control over the workers’ fund.
5. Hennebeau promises to forward their demands, predicts rejection, and warns that hunger makes a strike impossible to sustain.
6. The delegates leave silently, while the manager’s guests discuss the strike and Madame Hennebeau requests fresh air.

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Maheu presents the dispute as a demand for fair treatment rather than disorder. His plain statement challenges the manager’s description of the workers as rebels.

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