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The Workers: An Experiment in Reality. The West

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Walter A. Wyckoff
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The narrator undertakes an immersive social experiment by living and working among laborers across the American West, moving from congested urban centers to itinerant camps. He documents unemployment, odd jobs, the search for steady work, and offers detailed scenes of factory labor, hand-truckmen, road building, and seasonal camp life. Encounters with political activists and labor meetings appear alongside portraits of boarding-house routines and the informal strategies workers use to survive. Chapters advance both geographically and thematically, combining first-person reportage with broader observations on economic insecurity and the social conditions shaping working-class life.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Sense of Infinity is Heightened by The Floating Mist Frontispiece
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“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