The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands ,but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal (家长式的) system of the old family business now passing away .我自己分析了半个小时都没找出句子主干，尤其是but之后的句子which the employer had often had……两个had 是几个意思？求指点，感激不尽！

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