The Company, who were being ruined by this death of work, talked of hiring miners from the Borinage, on the Belgian frontier, but did not dare; so that the battle continued as before between the colliers, who were shut up at home, and the dead pits guarded by soldiery.
La Compagnie, que cette mort du travail ruinait, parlait d'embaucher des mineurs du Borinage, a la frontiere belge; mais elle n'osait point; de sorte que la bataille en restait la, entre les charbonniers qui s'enfermaient chez eux, et les fosses mortes, gardées par la troupe.