The worker who has a job feels superior to a worker who is without one. Workers are not at all as chummy toward each other as some people think when … - B. Traven

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The worker who has a job feels superior to a worker who is without one. Workers are not at all as chummy toward each other as some people think when they see them marching with red flags to Union Square and getting noisy about a paradise in Russia. Workers might have a big word in all affairs were it not for the middle-class ideas they can't shake off. The one who makes the delicate parts of an engine feels superior to the man who stands before a lathe making bolts by the ten thousand. And the man at the lathe feels superior to the poor Czech who gathers up the scraps from the floor and carries them in a wheelbarrow to the back-yard.

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About B. Traven

(Bruno Traven in some accounts, born 23 February 1882 in Schwiebus, died 26 March 1969 in Mexico City) was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including (1927). The film adaptation of the same name won three Academy Awards in 1948.

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Pen Names: Robert Bek-gran Hal Croves Ret Marut Richard Maurhut Traven Torsvan Fred Gaudet Fred Mareth Bruno Marhut Red Marut Rex Marut Robert Marut Fred Maruth Goetz Öhly Anton Raderscheidt Wilhelm Scheider Jacob Torice B. T. Torsvan Berick Traven Torsvan Traves Torsvan Heinrich Otto Becker Adolf Rudolf Feige Herman Albert Otto Max Feige Otto Feige T. Torsvan Otto Wienecke Bruno Traven Albert Otto Max Wienecke
Alternative Names: Torsvan Berick Torsvan Bernhard Traven Torsvan Torsvan Croves Traven
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