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100 1 _aHalme, Kaarle,
_d1864-1946
245 1 0 _aKorpi liikkuu
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-05
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Korpi liikkuu : Yksinäytöksinen näytelmä by Kaarle Halme" is a one-act play written in the early 20th century. It dramatizes the awakening of working-class consciousness in a small industrial community, focusing on labor rights, workplace injustice, and the pushback against corporate power. The play unfolds in the blacksmith Perttu’s home, where news rolls in: wages have been cut, the factory wants to buy the family’s land, and the foreman Huikari has harassed Lyyli, Antti’s fiancée. Antti defends her and soon both he and Perttu are dismissed—ostensibly for insubordination and agitation after a workers’ meeting. Mikko, the local landowner and Lyyli’s uncle, refuses to sell the land to the factory. Huikari arrives proposing a “settlement” that would reinstate the men if agitation stops and the land sale proceeds, but Antti rejects the terms and demands Huikari’s removal. Heljo, a young machinist, brings word that the workers have gathered, approved firm resolutions, and stand united. The act ends with renewed resolve and the hopeful refrain that “the forest moves,” a metaphor for a community stirring to collective action. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Kust.Oy Kirja, 1913
653 _aOne-act plays
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76823
999 _c117548
_d117548