COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS


CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I]PAGE
[The Army of the Unemployed]1

[CHAPTER II]
[Living by Odd Jobs]40

[CHAPTER III]
[Finding Steady Work]86

[CHAPTER IV]
[A Hand-truckman in a Factory]147

[CHAPTER V]
[Among the Revolutionaries]190

[CHAPTER VI]
[A Road Builder on the World’s Fair Grounds]247

[CHAPTER VII]
[From Chicago to Denver]288

[CHAPTER VIII]
[From Denver to the Pacific]338

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ The Sense of Infinity is Heightened by The Floating Mist]Frontispiece
FACING
PAGE
[ “That Meeting is not Far,” He is Saying, “and it’s Warm There. Won’t You Go?”]16
[ In the Corner near Us are Three Men, Slouching, Listless, Weary Specimens of their Kind, who are Playing “Comrades”] 24
[ She is Facing Us near at Hand, Her Head Framed in the Dark Umbrella which Rests upon Her Shoulder]30
[ Overflowing through the Open Door of The Farthest Passage upon the Floor of the Main Corridor are the Sprawling Figures of Men Asleep]36
[ The Police-station Breakfast]42
[ “Out You Go, Now”]50
[ “We’ll Feed, Partner, We’ll Feed”]54
[ All of Them were Shouting Oaths and Violent Abuse]60
[ She Drew Back and Looked at Me Perplexed]66
[ He was Putting the Men through a Catechism respecting Their Nationalities, Their Homes and Occupations, and Their Motives in Coming to Chicago]88
[ I Think that the Cook Thoroughly Enjoyed Feeding Us]94
[ In the Midst of the Applause which Marked the Passage of the Resolution, She was on Her Feet]106
[ “Don’t You Touch it,” She said, Fiercely]114
[ “We’ve Got Some Grub, Ma!” Cried the Older Child, in a Tone of Success, as She Ran Up to Her Mother with the Basket. “Riley’s Barrel was Full To-night”]118
[ Waiting for a Job Outside the Factory Gates]130
[ I was Strong and Warm in the Wild Joy of the Lust for Blood]136
[ Loading the Box-cars under Crist’s Guidance]150
[ In the Factory]154
[ Crowds of Men Streaming from Every Door and Pressing Swiftly Through the Gate]160
[ The Noon Hour]164
[ Mrs. Schulz’s Boarding-house]168
[ Never Once Did I Fail of a Friendly Greeting]196
[ He Hated Kings and Potentates and All Governmental Authority]214
[ The Socialist Meeting]222
[ There was Nothing in the Domestic Scene which Met Us to Suggest the Home of a Revolutionary]232
[ An Evasion of the Factory System of Production]236
[ Returning Work from Sweat Shops]240
[ “Don’t Talk to Us about Disease; it’s bread We’re After, bread!”]246
[ It was a Well-fed Crowd which Sat Smoking for a Quarter of an Hour or More on the Rough Embankments, Overlooking the Agricultural Building before Going Back to Work]256
[ The Fourth of July—“Two Townships were to Play Each Other”]318
[ Price could Speak Their Language, and Now and Then One Joined Us in Camp]370

THE WORKERS
CHAPTER I
THE ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYED