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Some
shabby
figures
shuffled
across
it
,
as
if
lost
in
its
shining
expanse
.
On
the
steps
of
the
pedestal
,
under
the
statue
of
the
austere
,
exultant
figure
,
a
ragged
bum
sat
slumped
in
passive
resignation
,
like
a
wing
-
plucked
bird
with
no
place
to
go
,
resting
on
any
chance
cornice
.
She
fell
down
on
the
steps
of
the
pedestal
,
like
another
derelict
,
her
dust
-
smeared
cape
wrapped
tightly
about
her
,
she
sat
still
,
her
head
on
her
arm
,
past
crying
or
reeling
or
moving
.
It
seemed
to
her
only
that
she
kept
seeing
a
figure
with
a
raised
arm
holding
a
light
,
and
it
looked
at
times
like
the
Statue
of
Liberty
and
then
it
looked
like
a
man
with
sun
-
streaked
hair
,
holding
a
lantern
against
a
midnight
sky
,
a
red
lantern
that
stopped
the
movement
of
the
world
.
"
Don
’
t
take
it
to
heart
,
lady
,
whatever
it
is
,
"
said
the
bum
,
in
a
tone
of
exhausted
compassion
.
"
Nothing
’
s
to
be
done
about
it
,
anyway
.
.
.
What
’
s
the
use
,
lady
?
Who
is
John
Galt
?
"
On
October
20
,
the
steel
workers
’
union
of
Rearden
Steel
demanded
a
raise
in
wages
.
Hank
Rearden
learned
it
from
the
newspaper
;
no
demand
had
been
presented
to
him
and
it
had
not
been
considered
necessary
to
inform
him
.
The
demand
was
made
to
the
Unification
Board
;
it
was
not
explained
why
no
other
steel
company
was
presented
with
a
similar
claim
.
He
was
unable
to
tell
whether
the
demanders
did
or
did
not
represent
his
workers
,
the
Board
’
s
rules
on
union
elections
having
made
it
a
matter
impossible
to
define
.
He
learned
only
that
the
group
consisted
of
those
newcomers
whom
the
Board
had
slipped
into
his
mills
in
the
past
few
months
.
On
October
23
,
the
Unification
Board
rejected
the
union
’
s
petition
,
refusing
to
grant
the
raise
.
If
any
hearings
had
been
held
on
the
matter
,
Rearden
had
not
known
about
it
.
He
had
not
been
consulted
,
informed
or
notified
.
He
had
waited
,
volunteering
no
questions
.
On
October
25
,
the
newspapers
of
the
country
,
controlled
by
the
same
men
who
controlled
the
Board
,
began
a
campaign
of
commiseration
with
the
workers
of
Rearden
Steel
.
They
printed
stories
about
the
refusal
of
the
wage
raise
,
omitting
any
mention
of
who
had
refused
it
or
who
held
the
exclusive
legal
power
to
refuse
,
as
if
counting
on
the
public
to
forget
legal
technicalities
under
a
barrage
of
stories
implying
that
an
employer
was
the
natural
cause
of
all
miseries
suffered
by
employees
.
