The Transgressors. Story of a Great Sin. A Political Novel of the Twentieth Century

The novel follows the rise of an industrial syndicate that manipulates coal supply and local politics to enrich industrial magnates, portraying miners driven to hunger by deliberate mine closures enforced by the Coal and Iron Police under a sheriff. An attorney represents miners' appeals while a charitable woman of diminished means tends to their suffering. Secret conferences, oaths, and a published list of transgressors consolidate the combine's influence, which then forms a political party and mounts a campaign. The narrative traces organizing, resistance, legal and moral crises, public confrontations, and personal losses before sketching the aftermath of the syndicate's collapse and the uneasy advent of a new political order.