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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER I
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But should you change your belief to something that menaces the established order, your preaching would be unacceptable to your employers, and you would be discharged.

Every little while some one or another of you is so discharged.* Am I not right ?" * During this period there were many ministers cast out of the church for preaching unacceptable doctrine.

Especially were they cast out when their preaching became tainted with socialism.
This time there was no dissent.

They sat dumbly acquiescent, with the exception of Dr.Hammerfield, who said: "It is when their thinking is wrong that they are asked to resign." "Which is another way of saying when their thinking is unacceptable," Ernest answered, and then went on.

"So I say to you, go ahead and preach and earn your pay, but for goodness' sake leave the working class alone.
You belong in the enemy's camp.


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