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186 the poor laborers, urging that they are sweating profusely, that they are being made to row too hard.

Indeed, those rowers are disposed to be mutinous. So also are some on the capitalist side, who have the appearance of farmers. The overseers—with the mien of politicians—with whips in hand walk up and down the gangway, listening to the disgruntled ones and themselves assuming a threatening attitude toward the coxswain. The other capitalist rowers, long since whipped into submission for their misdeeds, real or fancied, are dispirited and silent. Under the foredeck a communist, to whom no one is giving attention, is boring with an auger through the plank of the boat, covertly planning to rob everybody during their confusion as the boat sinks. Will the communist be apprehended and checked? Will a new principle of authority arrive to take command? Will management be able to keep the boat afloat? These are questions that the future alone will answer.