The Iron Heel Chapter 8 - The Machine Breakers

In which a gathering of small business men expresses their grievances against trusts and the loss of profits, yet remains unaware of the larger forces of economic evolution that render their plight inevitable. Ernest Everhard, with clear-eyed candour, reveals the futility of their resistance, urging them to embrace socialism as the true means to control the great machines of industry, while warning of the harsh realities awaiting those who would rise against the trusts.