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The World For Sale
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CHAPTER VI
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They are going on strike on your railways and in the mills." "What mills--in Manitou ?" he asked abruptly.

"In both towns." He laughed harshly.

"That's a tall order," he said sharply.

"Both towns--I don't think so, not yet." "A sympathetic strike is what he calls it," she rejoined.
"Yes, a row over some imagined grievance on the railway, and all the men in all the factories to strike--that's the new game of the modern labour agitator! Marchand has been travelling in France," he added disdainfully, "but he has brought his goods to the wrong shop.

What do the priests--what does Monseigneur Lourde say to it all ?" "I am not a Catholic," she replied gravely.


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