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these machines made in St. Louis, Missouri, I think,
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come along and wipe out certain aspects of shoemaking.
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So, this leads people to think there is something
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that we can't control out there
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that is affecting our lives in a very ruinous way.
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So, these people are at the forefront of labor militancy.
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And in the course of the 1880s and 1890s
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they start thinking about,
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"hey, you know those people that we don't drink with,
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the ones who load things,
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carry things around, ordinary workers,
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maybe, you know, maybe they got the same, maybe the same enemy."