"Do you know what will happen to Farley* and his strike-breakers? I'll
tell you. Strike-breaking as an occupation will cease. There won't be
any more strikes. In place of strikes will be slave revolts. Farley and
his gang will be promoted to slave-driving. Oh, it won't be called
that; it will be called enforcing the law of the land that compels the
laborers to work. It simply prolongs the fight, this treachery of the
big unions. 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. When a system is founded upon class, how can caste be prevented?
The Iron Heel will not be able to prevent it, and in the end caste will
destroy the Iron Heel. The oligarchs have already developed caste among
themselves; but wait until the favored unions develop caste. The Iron
Heel will use all its power to prevent it, but it will fail.

"In the favored unions are the flower of the American workingmen. They