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intoxicating liquor in his life。 The act on the part of the authorities was one 

of kindness for him; as in the county jail he will be provided with a good 

place to sleep and plenty to eat。 

     〃Joe Coat; aged sixty…nine years; will serve ninety days in the county 

jail for much the same reason as Westlake。 He states that; if given a chance 

to do so; he will go out to a wood…camp and cut timber during the winter; 

but   the   police   authorities   realize   that   he   could   not   long   survive   such   a 

task。〃From the Butte (Montana) Miner; December 7th; 1904。 

     〃'I end my life because I have reached the age limit; and there is no 

place   for   me   in   this   world。   Please   notify   my   wife;   No。   222   West   129th 

Street;   New York。'   Having   summed   up   the   cause   of   his   despondency   in 

this   final   message;     James    Hollander;    fifty…six   years   old;   shot  himself 

through   the   left   temple;   in   his   room   at   the   Stafford   Hotel   today。〃New 

York Herald。 

     {4} In the San Francisco Examiner of November 16; 1904; there is an 

account   of   the   use   of   fire…hose   to   drive   away   three   hundred   men   who 

wanted work at unloading a vessel in the harbor。 So anxious were the men 

to get the two or three hours' job that they made a veritable mob and had 

to be driven off。 

     {5}   〃It   was   no   uncommon   thing   in   these   sweatshops   for   men   to   sit 

bent over a sewing…machine continuously  from eleven to fifteen hours   a 

day in July weather; operating a sewing…machine by foot…power; and often 

so driven that they could not stop for lunch。 The seasonal character of the 

work meant demoralizing toil for a few months in the year; and a not less 

demoralizing   idleness   for   the   remainder   of   the   time。   Consumption;   the 



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plague of the tenements and the especial plague of the garment industry; 

carried   off   many   of   these   workers;   poor   nutrition   and   exhaustion;   many 

more。〃From McClure's Magazine。 

     {6} The Social Unrest。 Macmillan Company。 

     {7}   〃Our   Benevolent   Feudalism。〃   By   W。   J。   Ghent。   The   Macmillan 

Company。 

     {8}   〃The   Social   Unrest。〃   By   John   Graham   Brooks。   The   Macmillan 

Company。 

     {9}    From    figures   presented    by   Miss    Nellie  Mason     Auten    in  the 

American Journal of Sociology; and copied extensively by the trade… union 

and Socialist press。 

     {10} 〃The Bitter Cry of Outcast London。〃 

     {11} An item from the Social Democratic Herald。 Hundreds of these 

items; culled from current happenings; are published weekly in the papers 

of the workers。 

     {12} Karl Marx; the great Socialist; worked out the trust development 

forty years ago; for which he was laughed at by the orthodox economists。 



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