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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER XIV
18/25

Heaven only knows now where and when the Revolution will triumph." * James Farley--a notorious strike-breaker of the period.

A man more courageous than ethical, and of undeniable ability.
He rose high under the rule of the Iron Heel and finally was translated into the oligarch class.

He was assassinated in 1932 by Sarah Jenkins, whose husband, thirty years before, had been killed by Farley's strike-breakers.
"But with such a powerful combination as the Oligarchy and the big unions, is there any reason to believe that the Revolution will ever triumph ?" I queried.

"May not the combination endure forever ?" He shook his head.

"One of our generalizations is that every system founded upon class and caste contains within itself the germs of its own decay.


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