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in Russia. These people apparently made very few demands upon the economy of the USA. I don't think they had thought in terms of the economy of the USA.

I think Big Bill Haywood attached himself to Foster for a while. Haywood came out of the old IWW movement - Industrial Workers of the World - with its great western organization. I remember when he came into New York. I don't remember for what reason he came in, but I have an idea that it was during the time that there was a transit strike. The streetcar conductors and motormen were striking, or about to strike. There was rumbling that there would be a strike on the subway. The old horsecar conductors had taken over the electrified streetcars, but the union leadership was still made up of the mentality of horsecar drivers - older and slower paced. They belonged in a very conservative trade union group. I think Haywood came into New York at about that time.

I know that at that time I was living at 121 Washington Place, where we lived when we were first married. I remember seeing him at that time on the street and having it pointed out to me that that was Bill Haywood, the man who had come to take charge of the incipient strike. We were particularly concerned





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