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Some of them had already cut the wage lists on their roads . They did not feel sure that it was all `` bluff . '' * * * * * It was the first day of the A. R. U. boycott . Sommers left the Athenian Building at noon , for Dr. Lindsay 's clients carried their infirmities out of town in hot weather . He took his way across the city toward the station of the Northwestern Railroad , wondering whether Debs 's threats had been carried out , and if consequently he should be compelled to remain in town over Sunday . On the street corners and in front of the newspaper offices little knots of men , wearing bits of white ribbon in their buttonholes , were idling . They were quiet , curious , dully waiting to see what this preposterous stroke might mean for them .