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Below these in the hierarchy were ^the Scandinavians, French Canadians, Balkans and Poles, many of them illiterate. The woodsmen were signed up for crossed out:the a winter in the woods much as members of a crew are registered for a cruise, and were bedded and fed in the ^logging camps until the spring drive was over. Since they had no use for money the Company kept accounts for each man and paid them all when they got down out of the woods. Many of the lumberjacks went to Chicago with their winter's pay to crossed out: blowspend it crossed out: all in among the red lights of the big city; however, the paternal ^hand did not slip from their ?bracing? shoulders and the paternal voice instructed them to present themselves each morning in the Chicago offices of their Company to receive that part of their wages which was considered safe ^for them to lose in twenty four hours of drinking and whoring.

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