"And what has happened before will happen again--unless you stir round and stop it.

That's the only use in remembering things.

Standing alone, Hallam and his crowd will squeeze you out one by one; standing fast together for what is your own, you're fit to choke off anybody, and what I've called you here for is to see whether we can't fix up a Co-operative Company!" A man stood up with a light in his eyes.

"Then you've hit the thing plumb where you wanted," he said.

"Whose standing in with Alton of Somasco, boys ?" There was a roar this time, and then a silence as if the assembly felt that they had done an unseemly thing, but it was evident that they were all of them ready.
"I figure you've got a programme ?" said somebody.
"I have," said Alton.