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...Covington...
...former Wobblies and the like from all over the country gathered in some numbers. They lived, farmed, published books and a weekly newspaper, and for a number of years staved of off foreclosure. I don't know what became of the colony; I only know that for a time Covington Hall lived and worked there, and I don't know what became of him either...
Llano must have been near Grabow, though, and I know that 20 years earlier Covington Hall had lived there too. Perhaps he had stayed somewhere in the huge lumber camps, for he had been organizing the workers there, goading them into rebellion, publishing a paper called The Voice of the People. The workers had strck: the Galloway Lumber Company, which owned the town, had posted armed guards; and on a hot summer day in 1912 the strikers and guards had gotten into a shooting match that left three dead and 48 wounded. Perhaps the Galloway lumber camps are, there...
...Covington Hall's name was on the marching orders of the United Confederate Veterans as late as 1904; but by the next year he was an organizer and propagandist for the United Brewery Workers Union. He wrote for the Labor World and promoted strikes and cooperation between black and white brewery workers, who like most southern workers had separate labor unions at the time. He began to write poetry glorifying the struggles of the working man. Clearly something had happened...
...himself fighting for slaves he might have sold to the Yanks and still kept as sharecroppers." Ira Finley, another friend, wrote of Hall that "trained and educated to be a respectable citizen, "he "rather chose to be a companion of the Toilers." Perhaps, but I think not, for Covington Hall was neither a cynic about nor a rejecter of the Old South...