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.