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Chapter 6: Hell's Kithcen
The local kids start their scrutiny of you the minute you haul the first piece ... Our move into this six-story tenement in the heart of Hell's Kitchen had ...
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Chapter 10: A Morgan Line; A New Orleans Whore
The Morgan Line on the West Side offered the most promise for a job. So many of their ships ran from Boston to the Gulf ports that at least one was sure to ...
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Chapter 18: The Black Gang News
Chapter XVIII: The Black Gang News. It is not a pleasant feeling to wake up one morning and discover you have been cut off from all your shipmates, ...
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Chapter 18: The 1936 Pacific Coast Maritime Strike
Chapter XVIII: The 1936 Pacific Coast Maritime Strike. The San Francisco waterfront was alive with activity. Longshoremen were working day and night shifts ...
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Chapter 15: Different Jungles, Different People
Chapter XV: Different Jungles, Different People ... I'd had a different image of a jungle--something with big trees and a running creek or spring nearby. ...
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Chapter 15: The SS California Strike
It passed her sister ship, the SS California, en route to San Pedro and San Francisco, in the middle of the night. When the California secured her lines to ...
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Chapter 2: The Tombs, the Trial, the Prison
The meals at the Tombs were horrible. The standing rule at feeding time was that everyone had to be locked in his cell. Upon entering the Tombs, ...
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Chapter 15: The SS California Strike
It passed her sister ship, the SS California, en route to San Pedro and San Francisco, in the middle of the night. When the California secured her lines to ...
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The Kid from Hoboken
The Kid from Hoboken. An Autobiography by Bill Bailey. Edited by Lynn Damme. "To my son Michael. You are the best thing in my life. ...
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Chapter 10: A Morgan Line; A New Orleans Whore
Whores sat at open windows, soliciting trade from the passerby. ... A dollar? What you-all expect to get for a little ole dollar?" I didn't answer. ...
