It was through this landscape of an unskilled working class of immigrants that Joel Haagland drifted for eight years. From road crews to timber camps to loading docks on the California Coast, the Swedish immigrant passed through America. The idealism of the early days had vanished. He turns away from being a naive, hopeful person to a more hardened person. You've got to stand up and defend yourself and defend other people who are in your condition.
People are blacklisted.
You know, it follows them around. He's an agitator. He's a troublemaker. And Joe Hillstrom became a wobbly. . The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.