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Is there such a law as gives our manager the right to make war upon mosquitoes with our kopecks?" "Think!" said Makhotin, with a glimmer in his narrow eyes. "Three years ago these sharpers collected a tax to build a bath house. Three thousand eight hundred rubles is what they gathered in. Where are those rubles? And where is the bath house?"
The mother saw that all heads were turned in the same direction, toward the blacksmith's wall, where Sizov, Makhotin, Vyalov, and five or six influential, solid workingmen were standing on a high pile of old iron heaped on the red brick paving of the court, and waving their hands. "Vlasov is coming!" somebody shouted. "Vlasov? Bring him along!"
The whole factory has arisen! They've sent for you. Sizov and Makhotin say you can explain better than anybody else. My! What a hullabaloo!" Pavel began to dress himself silently. "A crowd of women are gathered there; they are screaming!" "I'll go, too," declared the mother. "You're not well, and what are they doing? I'm going, too." "Come," Pavel said briefly.
It is time to defend ourselves; we must all understand that no one except ourselves will help us. One for all and all for one this is our law, if we want to crush the foe!" "He's right, boys!" Makhotin shouted. "Listen to the truth!" And, with a broad sweep of his arm, he shook his fist in the air. "We must call out the manager at once," said Pavel. "We must ask him."
Their eyes gleamed from darkened countenances; their teeth glistened. Pavel appeared on the spot where Sizov and Makhotin were standing, and his voice rang out: "Comrades!" The mother saw that his face paled and his lips trembled; she involuntarily pushed forward, shoving her way through the crowd. "Where are you going, old woman?"
The next day, after mass, a dapper old man, the smelter Sizov, and the tall, vicious-looking locksmith Makhotin, came to him and told him of the manager's decision. "A few of us older ones got together," said Sizov, speaking sedately, "talked the matter over, and our comrades, you see, sent us over to you, as you are a knowing man among us.
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