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Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958

"Dangerous Days"

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workers of the world had banded themselves together, according to
the night's speakers. And because they were workers they would not
fight the German workers. It was all perfectly simple. With the
cooperation of the workers of the world, which recognized no country
but a vast brotherhood of labor, it was possible to end war, all war.
In the meantime, while all the workers all over the world were being
organized, one prevented as much as possible any assistance going to
capitalistic England. One did some simple thing - started a strike,
or sawed lumber too short, or burned a wheat-field, or put nails in
harvesting machinery, or missent perishable goods, or changed
signal-lights on railroads, or drove copper nails into fruit-trees,
so they died. This was a pity, the fruit-trees. But at least they
did not furnish fruit for Germany's enemies.
So each one did but one thing, and that small, so small that it was
difficult to discover. But there were two hundred thousand men to
do them, according to Rudolph, and that meant a great deal.


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