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Hoboes to Spend Quarter of a Million
James Eads How of St. Louis, heir to a $250,000 fortune, plans to distribute half to his Brotherhood Welfare Association and the rest to his fellow unemployed. A physician and former socialite, How now lives as a tramp and funds the group, advocating syndicalist ideas and worker self management while staying within the slums and lodgings of the Brotherhood.
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James Eads How
St. Louis
Brotherhood Welfare Association
New York
Frisco
James Eads
Tuang
Brotherhood of Wanderers
Col. Eads
Eads
James Badshow
Hobbes
Rousseau
Great Brotherhood
Dr. How
Brotherhood
Welfare Association
International Workers of the World
How
I. W.W
Howland
St. “Louis