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yes, definitely. More harm than god because they kind of blaCeht Finish nationality altogether with that. Many of them joinedesuaceb they had to not because they wanted to. And then inturn s mefo them became kind of radical themselves to.~ isted.5.R I remember we had a co-op store here.I Was that store here before you came?R No, I don't think so, maybe it was here before I came.IR I don't recall it nowI How about socialist or labor movements?RI So you would say that the IWW did more harm?ROhI Do you remember of hearing of any open fights between labor and malagementbetween the socialist groups and nonsocialist groups? l~R I have heard of some of them.I Sometimes they had quite violent feeling about each other.R Oh yes. And outwest they had quite a time.Have you lived in this part of Duluth for the last fifty years the~?Just about yes.Are there any particular events in the past of Duluth that stand o,Jt inyour mind? Unusual things that you might have taken part in or ob~erved?I don't knowDo you remember for instance any particular bad winters?R They had one or two but we were not here yet when they had those h avysnows, that was the winters before we came. People couldn't get 0 t forthree days. Even doctors had to go on skiis or snowshoes or somet ing.Cars couldn't move and horses couldn't go no place because the sno wasto deep. The streetcars couldn't run for I guess fouror five days becauseof the snow.