“Great issue, as always (Tues, 3/14),” writes Kurt Stand. “One small addition, however; Casey Jones may have been a skilled worker, but his ‘heroics’ were performed while working as a scab during a strike on the Southern Pacific railroad line, owned by an "engulf and devour" capitalist E. H. Harriman. As Joe Hill wrote during another strike on a Harriman-owned line a few years after Jones' death: Casey Jones went to Hell a-flying; "Casey Jones," the Devil said, "Oh fine: Casey Jones, got busy shoveling sulphur. That's what you get for scabbing on the S.P. Line."
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