"Down with the Red Flag!" the editorial
was headed; and Peter couldn't see how any red-blooded, 100%
American could read it, and not be moved to do something.
Peter said that to McGivney, who answered: "We're going to do
something; you wait!" And sure enough, that afternoon the papers
carried the news that the mayor of American City had notified the
owners of the Auditorium that they would be held strictly
responsible under the law for all incendiary and seditious
utterances at this meeting; thereupon, the owners of the Auditorium
had cancelled the contract. Furthermore, the mayor declared that no
crowds should be gathered on the street, and that the police would
be there to see to it, and to protect law and order. Peter hurried
to the rooms of the Peoples' Council, and found the radicals
scurrying about, trying to find some other hall; every now and then
Peter would go to the telephone, and let McGivney know what hall
they were trying to get, and McGivney would communicate with Guffey,
and Guffey would communicate with the secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, and the owner of this hall would be called up and warned
by the president of the bank which held a mortgage on the hall, or
by the chairman of the board of directors of the Philharmonic
Orchestra which gave concerts there.
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