1:07:03
My father insists that they did and still do
1:07:06
and I'd like to know
why they can't be inspected.
1:07:09
We can't listen to just anyone
who may have seen some plans.
1:07:13
The men in Scupper Flats listened,
and starved for three months to avoid it.
1:07:18
Anyway, Barras wouldn't
risk flooding his own mine.
1:07:22
There are owners who will take a gamble.
There are few miners who don't.
1:07:27
This gamble I beg you not to be a party to.
1:07:30
You may deny you intend to be a party
to anything, just to do nothing.
1:07:35
Like the man who sits
and watches a child drowning.
1:07:38
He's not a party to it. There's no crime
he can be accused of - certainly not murder.
1:07:44
If these men drown in Scupper Flats,
nobody can accuse you of murder.
1:07:50
You'll say you were not a party to it.
So will you and you.
1:07:53
But what will your conscience say?
And yours and yours?
1:07:57
It is in your hands today to decide whether
these men should enter that death trap.
1:08:02
Your hands and yours! Today!
1:08:05
They're stripping it now - that barrier
holding back a million tons of water.
1:08:25
- Mr Chairman.
- Yes, Mr Wilkins?
1:08:29
We've all been swept off our feet by
the eloquence and sincerity of this young man.
1:08:35
Hear, hear!
1:08:38
But is he as sincere as we think?
1:08:42
Please tell me when you decided
to come here today.
1:08:48
- Last Saturday night.
- Aye.
1:08:51
Scupper Flats had been going for three years
1:08:53
and it wasn't till last Saturday
that you decided to put this before us?
1:08:58
That's when I heard about the new contract.