Presently the old man shoved his plate back, and, wiping his face, he growled, in German: "I discharged Andrew and Jansen." "Yes, I know," replied Kurt.

"It wasn't good judgment.

What'll we do for hands ?" "I'll hire more.

Men are coming for the harvest." "But they all belong to the I.W.W.," protested Kurt.
"And what's that ?" In scarcely subdued wrath Kurt described in detail, and to the best of his knowledge, what the I.W.W.was, and he ended by declaring the organization treacherous to the United States.
"How's that ?" asked old Dorn, gruffly.
Kurt was actually afraid to tell his father, who never read newspapers, who knew little of what was going on, that if the Allies were to win the war it was wheat that would be the greatest factor.

Instead of that he said if the I.W.W.inaugurated strikes and disorder in the Northwest it would embarrass the government.
"Then I'll hire I.W.W.