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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER III
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Talk with more of them.

Go and see Colonel Ingram.

Look up the reporters that kept Jackson's case out of the papers, and the editors that run the papers.

You will find them all slaves of the machine." A little later in our conversation I asked him a simple little question about the liability of workingmen to accidents, and received a statistical lecture in return.
"It is all in the books," he said.

"The figures have been gathered, and it has been proved conclusively that accidents rarely occur in the first hours of the morning work, but that they increase rapidly in the succeeding hours as the workers grow tired and slower in both their muscular and mental processes.
"Why, do you know that your father has three times as many chances for safety of life and limb than has a working-man?
He has.


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