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Albert bmis 47
Q: Yes. Were they violent people You said that they had bonhed one of
the priest's houses, is that right
A: Well, they were in a way revolutionaries. They believed in violence,
sure.
Q: Was there m h violence in that area fian them
A: Well, not too mch. You know, they wtched their way and nobody hew
who did it. They kept it pretty ell secret. You accuse this and that
one, but they never did find out dm the ri&t one was. hey always
watched that pretty carefully.
Q: kre there a lot of bmbings
A: Ch, there *re qyite a few. They'd do something, some guy wuld talk
too m h against than and everything, and they'd quiet him dom by doing
sawthing. Something violent in different mys, I don't r d r if it
was all bombing or not, you how.
Q: W t about the mine wars, xihen the Progressive and W wrkers wre
going at it I knaw here in Christian b t y and Sangaton County, there
was a lot mre of it maybe than down there.
A: Well, I was up here £random there. That was the last tine that I
hd anythug to do with them. After I went on that trip to Wkeytown,
you how, ve =re going dom there and I ms telling you abut it. 01
that trip down there that first time, e c~me back then they came up
here. They =re going to organize this bunch. I'll never forget, I was
at HewitWill@ here. I can r d r going down that street in Hewittville.
Keith PkCann I'll never forget. He was in the guard, what you call the .
. .
Q: National Guard
A: . . . National Guard, and 1'11 never forget because I raet&r him so
will. I r&r him with that bayonnet just pushing m wer to the side
and you'd go this my. Gilbert Large' s place, there 'd be w d s up on
top there d then they hauled us away out in the country and let you go.
I got off of there and I hitchhiked home, and that was the end of my
going on anything anpre. That ~s the end of that. I said "That's
enought of that." (laughter)
Q: Yes,
A: But I was here on all of it. I remembp_r uhen they used to hrn over
there at Kimaid, wer there in the night t-. I stayed there one
n&t, a Ere just kids, w Ere yomg, and m were over there at the
old ball dimmi. I ramher even ve stole that hon~ plate because w
didn't have one &ere e wre playing ball at hazle, We took the hare
plate, it ws a rubber home plate, and ie took it. I remember they'd get
up and give speeches and talk and everything, and pretty soon the house
mdd be on fire. Oh, it ms a mss, I'll tell you. You know, it KEE
just fun. k Ere just young fellows in their early twenties in 1920,
s d r e around there.