rom one part of the country to another.

* Albert Pocock, another of the notorious strike-breakers of
earlier years, who, to the day of his death, successfully
held all the coal-miners of the country to their task. He
was succeeded by his son, Lewis Pocock, and for five
generations this remarkable line of slave-drivers handled
the coal mines. The elder Pocock, known as Pocock I., has
been described as follows: "A long, lean head, semicircled
by a fringe of brown and gray hair, with big cheek-bones and
a heavy chin, . . . a pale face, lustreless gray eyes, a
metallic voice, and a languid manner." He was born of
humble parents, and began his career as a bartender. He
next became a private detective for a street railway
corporation, and by successive steps developed into a
professional strikebreaker. Pocock V., the last of the line,
was blown up in a pump-house by a bomb during a petty revolt
of the miners in the Indian Territory. This occurred in 2073
A.D.

In the meantime, the socialists held firm. While the Grangers expired in
flame and blood, and organized labor was disrupted, the socialists
held their peace and perfected their secret organization. In vain the
Grangers pleaded with us. We rightly contended that any revolt on our
part was virtually suicide for the whole Revolution. The Iron Heel, at
first dubious about dealing with the entire proletariat at one time, had
found the work easier than it had expected, and would have asked nothing
better than an uprising on our part. But we avoided the issue, in spite
of the fact that agents-provocateurs swarmed in our midst. In those
early days, the agents of the Iron Heel were clumsy in their methods.
They had much to learn and in the meantime our Fighting Groups weeded
them out. It was bitter, bloody work, but we were fighting for life and
for the Revolution, and we had to fight the enemy with its own weapons.
Yet we were fair. No agent of the Iron Heel was executed without a
trial. We may have made mistakes, but if so, very rarely. The bravest,
and the most combative and self-sacrificing of our comrades went into
the Fighting Groups. Once, after ten years had passed, Ernest made a
calculation from figures furnished by the chiefs of the Fighting Groups,
and his conclusion was that the average life of a man or woman after
becoming a member was five years. The comrades of the Fighting