House of Paine

just plain Bill

 this is a fore taste 
  of 
the  coming 
paine family  epic production :
                  
                 " years of  struggle
                          years of  dust "

                       the CP -USA story 

                                    1919 to 1949 


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heres
battlin bill Foster
   on his late 20's 
                      party rivals

the lovestone-ites 


 " of their  eight top players "

  " only one belongs to
                       an actual   union"
 

 their all 
         
  "  a pack
of  stuffed wool pants
         full of 
            dried  fish powder "

                     
  an arm chair   legion 
    of  
    "   grade school teachers 
              newspaper cartoonists
                     and 
                carnivale  barkers 

a hodge podge
         of 
silk hat 
       philanthropic goo goos 
   
  laid off 
            commercial investigators
                              and  insurance adjusters
         out of luck   book  agents
         
              crippled 
                    circus jugglers  
              and
             footloose  
                       street   mimes ....."  


 my favorite  prole sniff 


"they've put
  the Daily Worker
           in the hands 
               of a bunch of 
                     Greenwich Villagers "

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yup

seems 
jays prime fancy  pick 
was 

  " a very special type 
                 of urban intellectual
                      developed 
                      mostly 
                    in and around 
                    the  City College 
                                  of new york " 

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the other side's 
         counter charcterization 

as rendered 
years later
  by one 
     herbert t Gitlow
 
" bills gang 
    was  all about 
  blue flannel
workshirts
  leather jackets
        and 
 tilted caps " 

the whole lot of em
  were into  

" the slouch 
          of the tough guy
             and 
  the glorification 
                  of   slang."


if yer stalin 
who  are you backin ?  


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