ATDDTA (6) 178-179

[bekah]

Lew continues his life in Denver,  chasing the anarchists and...


178:1
starting to get just a tad suspicious about being played for a 
"sap."  played for a sap is played for a fool - being used. 

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178:9	 "Here's what you do," suggested Tansy Wagwheel...,   "It's 
in this wonderful book I keep close to me all the time, 'A Modern 
Christian's Guide to Moral Perplexities.'  Right here on page 
eighty-six, is your answer. Do you have your pencil? Good, write 
this down--'Dynamite Them All, and Let Jesus Sort Them Out.'"

I looooove that.   LOLOL!

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178: 20	 Lew  noticed "that therew ere now cavvalry units of the 
Colorado National Guard, in uniform, ranging the slopes and 
creeksides. 

Colorado National Guard were indeed called out in the Cripple Creek 
strike (1903) and at Dunnville (1904)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars#The_National_Guard_intervenes_in_Cripple_Creek>
<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s98/jameson.html>


Colorado Militia and striking miners at Dunnville West. Labor. 
State authorities brutally respond to the south Colorado coal miners' 
strike.

==Mar.23; Governor Peabody orders the state militia into the south 
Colorado coal fields - martial law is promptly and brutally imposed - 
union leaders are provoked into continuing the failing miners' strike

==Mar.26 The Colorado Militia begins the deportation of union leaders

==Mar.27 Colorado authorities order 74-year-old labor agitator Mother 
Jones out of the state - union president Moyer is arrested for flag 
desecration after criticizing the Colorado state government in a 
poster that featured an American flag

==Apr.21  Radical union leader Big Bill Haywood is arrested and 
beaten in Denver by Colorado National Guardsmen(see Jun.06)

The Colorado coal miners' strikes are crushed

==Jun.06 A bomb explodes at the Independence train station near 
Cripple Creek, killing thirteen strikebreakers - anti-union vigilante 
groups respond by sacking union halls - mine owners oust the local 
sheriff at gunpoint and purge pro-union public officials - hundreds 
of union men are arrested and deported

==Jun.08 A clash between miners and state militia at Dunnville leaves 
six strikers dead - vigilantes wreck the press rooms of the pro-union 
Victor Record

==Jun.23 Local unions vote to continue the hopeless south Colorado 
coal strike even after the national union has withdrawn support

==Jun.24 Troops deport 22 striking 'troublemakers' from the Telluride district.

==Jun.--- The radicalized Western Federation of Miners calls for the 
amalgamation of the entire working class into one union

==Oct.12 The south Colorado strike is officially ended - ~the Cripple 
Creek strike finally collapses - the Colorado miners' unions are 
temporarily broken<

1904  ~A great surge in union activity is underway - membership has 
quadrupled in five years to over two million -
4,000 strikes occur in 1904, nearly half resulting in tangible gains

<http://cnparm.home.texas.net/Nat/USA/USA01.htm>

178: 22   "He had thought to obtain, through one of the least 
trustworthy of his contacts at the Mine Owners Association, a safe 
passage document..."

a protection card
<http://www.mtgothictomes.com/images/Miners_Protective_Association_card.jpg>


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178:30     Ku Klux Klan,
The Klan came to Colorado in 1921:
<http://www.denver-rmn.com/millennium/1123mile.shtml>

It should probably be noted that the Klan is also known as the 
"Invisible Empire" and dresses like ghosts.

(Btw,  it doesn't bother me a whit that Pynchon doesn't adhere to a 
strict chronology -  tempus fugit )

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178:38 heeled
Carrying a weapon
<http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_178>


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179: 8    Clovis Yutts
"Yutz" is Yiddish slang for a clueless a hapless, clueless, annoying, 
and  socially clumsy goof.

Clutz
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179:15:   "Something like wanting to find out which side he was on 
without all these doubts..."
They're all bad -

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179: 20    "It would be Nate Privett, with one of his trademark Key 
West cheroots way out here from Chicago ..."

cheroot: An old cigar, often medium to long in length and with a 
narrow ring size; their wrapper tend to be rough and veiny.

as early as 1831, fifty cigar makers escaped Spanish domination to 
set up shop in Key West.
<http://tobaccodocuments.org/industry_depositions/13208794.html?zoom=750&ocr_position=above_foramatted&start_page=1&end_page=321>

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179:32  "... for there were any number of Anarchist chickadees 
hanging around who liked nothing better than to see what was up with 
these gruff Pinkertonian types."

Oh,  shades of Frenesi again ...

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179:24  "Singing in so many different tempos and keys..."

musical anarchy
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