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the life stories of undistinguished americans as told by themselves

by Holt Hamilton

Law » United States

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The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans, as the title says, is a collection of autobiographies of different people, who did not obtain power, fame or wallow in money. The book is remarkable for its vivid characters, emotions and life experience of those who lived in this country at the turn of the last century. First published in 1906, it became the main source of information about various strata of society and ethnic groups of that time.

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...drinks and told us we must break away from the Irish graft ers. The next week he made us strike, all by himself. We met twice a day in his saloon and spent all of our money on drinks, and then the strike was over. I got out of this union after that. I had been working hard in the cattle killing room and I had a better job. I was called a cattle butcher now and I joined the Cattle Butchers Union. This union is honest and it has done me a great deal of good. It has raised my wages. The man who worked at my job before the union came was getting through the year an average of $9 a [80] STORY OF A LITHUANIAN week. I am getting $11. In my first job I got $5 a week. The man who works there now gets $5. 75. It has given me more time to learn to read and speak and enjoy life like an American. I never work now from 6 A. M to 9 p. M. And then be idle the next day. I work now from 7 A. M to 5. 30 p. M. , and there are not so many idle days. The work is evened up. With more time and more money I...