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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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