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100	1		_aHalme, Kaarle, _d1864-1946
245	1	0	_aAamukellot
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-19
508			_aTapio Riikonen
520			_aAamukellot by Kaarle Halme is a one-act play written in the early 20th century. Set in a Finnish merchant household, it dramatizes the clash between traditional private commerce and the rising cooperative ideal. Through brisk dialogue and a single-room setting, the play examines business ethics, class pride, and generational change as a wealthy shopkeeper confronts challenges to his authority at work and at home. The action unfolds over a single morning. Merchant Esa Uljaala spars with his bold grain manager Paukkainen, who has unilaterally raised flour prices and hints at starting his own shop, while the sly industrialist Röyttö tries to push Uljaala into buying a dubious neighboring lot. Trouble peaks when Uljaala discovers that his refined future son-in-law, Teuvo Tela, has published a pamphlet urging trade without middlemen through cooperatives. Uljaala offers Tela a powerful post to keep him in the firm; Tela refuses, declaring he will serve the people rather than build private wealth. Misled by Röyttö, Uljaala briefly breaks the engagement and accuses Tela of scheming, but Tela calmly disproves the charges and warns against the bad lot. Uljaala relents: he promotes Paukkainen to deputy director, accepts Tela’s resignation from the firm, and restores Tela’s engagement to his daughter Agnes. As the household prepares to celebrate, Agnes exults that the “morning bells” are ringing, signaling a hopeful new beginning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto, 1915
653			_aOne-act plays
653			_aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78487
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