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It Seems to Me one issue of the Rebel Worker when The Time comes to put on an organization Drive among the Migratory Farm Workers Should be a Propaganda issue devoted to the welfare of The Migratory Wage Slaves and the families The Educational Propagand [sic] of the agricultural Workers Industrial Union 110 of The IWW. This history of its 1000 mile picket Line and Many Strikes as well as its Many free Speech fights in the harvest Fields Should be Reviewed also, especially one Like the Minot North Dakota free Speech fight of 1916 When hundreds of IWW Members filled the Jails and Stockade in that city; and won all Their Demands; to open a Hall, hold Mass Meetings on the Streets as well as have IWW News Boys on The Streets and else where. They had to fight The Minot City Bulls, County Sheriffs and City Fire Dept and beat them all to a frazle?; Damn near Broke The city of Minot North Dakota: They Sent in false fire alarms and cut fire hoses. They was Supported by The Great Northern Rail Road Shop [?] and Their Wives who Marched out in a Body to Support the IWW Free Speech. Many RR Slaves also carried IWW cards also.