American workers

[Terrance]

"The most important struggle, for the anti-liberal movement, is to
manage to mobilize American workers."

		--Toni Negri

That's one hell of a struggle and one that that was lost long ago, as
Pynchon argues in SL Intro and in VL. And who lost it? 

Intellectuals and college boys? Send us fotos of prisoners in Cuba. Let
them eat dust and die on their knees like my brothers. 

Good thing we're in this Tallyho headed up to the hill to see
Washington. 


When Jurgis had been working about three weeks at Brown's, there had
come to him one noontime a man who was employed as a night watchman, and
who asked him if he would not like to take out naturalization papers and
become a citizen. Jurgis did not know what that meant, but the man
explained the advantages. In the first place, it would not cost him
anything, and it would get him half a day off, with his pay just the
same; and then when election time came he would be able to vote--and
there was something in that. Jurgis was naturally glad to accept, and so
the night watchman said a few
words to the boss, and he was excused for the rest of the day. When,
later on, he wanted a holiday to get married he could not get it; and as
for a holiday with pay just the same--what power had wrought that
miracle heaven only knew! However, he went with the man, who picked up
several other newly landed immigrants, Poles, Lithuanians, and Slovaks,
and took them all outside, where stood a great four-horse tallyho coach,
with fifteen or twenty men already in it. It was a fine chance to see
the sights of the city, and the party had a merry time, with plenty of
beer handed up from inside. So they drove downtown and stopped before an
imposing granite building, in which they interviewed an official, who
had the papers all ready, with only the names to be filled in. So each
man
in turn took an oath of which he did not understand a word, and then was
presented with a handsome ornamented document with a big red seal and
the shield of the United States upon it, and was told that he had become
a citizen of the Republic and the equal of the President himself.