What does the speaker mean in line 27 by saying . steam was our handmaid and our servant flame ?

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the author is showing that it is the insatisfaction of basic needs that brings about the protests such as the strikes.if workers do not earn enough to buy food and feed their families and themselves in order to continue working, what is the use of working? besides, another message from the author is that of the owners of factories should be worried about ensuring their furure by having a second and third generation of workers in their industries.if they do not hear the workers demands, they will not have any more workers to make their pockets full.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.

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