Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 20 LA: but I seen many Wobblies working right along with me, they never tried to make me go to their meetings or that, if you want to join, was you, if you don't want to join it was okay, let's be friends. But this othe,r like for instance let's say the communist party, if you don't join them, they'll make you join somehow, and I took that experience to the Wobblies, not to mix with anybody that have anything, tried to make a plot against the government, because if you live in the country no matter how country it is and if it's good enough for you why try to make damage? It only try to ruin yourself and that's the reason I r1ever; one fellow went to the voint tell, friend of mine, that I was a communist, I said I want that guy to come up and tell me to my face. The reason he told me I was a communist because it just so happened, I talking with a regular good Wobblie. Well, he believe in that he was kind of secretary or something and was telling me what the motions was going to be and this and that and his name was we used to know him by Tom, he was kind of a brick mason, but he, that man never told me, says, why don't you join that was your business, they don't make any propaganda like this communist party does, from what I understand. But in fact, they have a great big hall here on West Temple, they call, Workmens of the World, that was part of the Wobblies,