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4 Now Greenway comes along in A. F. S. P., pg. 186, and says "company words and newspapers show no evidence of a strike" (SP, 1910). Of course there is no evidence if you look for wrong name and wrong year. In reality, Greenway didn't look hard because Harry McClintock told John it was the Harriman Strike of 1911 which John printed, but didn't follow they to document. At least, McClintock's statement is finally on the record.

Along comes Glazer who combines Stavis and Greenway to make a blooper. There is a further serious error in Stavis when he asserts that Casey Jones was Hills' first known and first printed song. pg. 3. On pg. 8 he calls Preacher & Slave the second of Joe Hills songs. The reverse is true. P. & S. was introduced in Portland in fall of 1910 and printed in summer of 1911, and C J was composed in fall of 1911 and printed in little red songbook in summer of 1912.

I believe that Stavis's error in dating C J helps give it an early [ [in? ]]1910 feeling or at least helps place it before the strike started.

I'll be glad, Fred, to get your comments on my sequence and theory. Now I need some specific help. I'll want a comment on Lizard's Tail in? Person.