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King-Hunger 303
But Time has no faith in King-Hunger. He
knows that Hunger had deceived the people on
many occasions:
"
You will deceive again, King-
Hunger. You have many a time deluded your
children and me." Yet Time is weary with wait
ing. He consents to strike the bell.
King-Hunger calls upon the workingmen to re
bel. The scene is in a machine shop; the place is
filled with deafening noises as of men s groans.
Every machine, every tool, every screw, holds its
human forms fettered to it and all keep pace with
the maddening speed of their tormentors. And
through the thunder and clatter of iron there rises
the terrible plaint of the toilers.
We are starving.
We are crushed by machines.
Their weight smothers us.
The iron crushes.
The steel oppresses.
Oh, what a furious weight! As a mountain
upon me !
The whole earth is upon me.
The iron hammer flattens me. It crushes the
blood out of my veins, it fractures my bones, it makes me
flat as sheet iron.
Through the rollers my body is pressed and
drawn thin as wire. Where is my body? Where is my
blood? Where is my soul?
The wheel is twirling me.
Day and night screaks the saw cutting steel.
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