Abstract

Oakland's "Sewer-Pipe City"

The article presents the author's experience of his visit to a place called Sewer-Pipe City. Sewer-Pipe City has upwards of two hundred residents just now. The authors thinks that it will have five hundred before the winter is over. Everyone lives in a section of sewer pipe. The author picked out a pipe to live in, collected a few stones, and made a little stove. Then he went along the docks and picked up pieces of wood. According to the author, he and his friends cannot make any organization there. The reason is that any organization at all would have to be Communist, because that's the way the fellows feel; and any Communist organization as big as that would be broken up by the police even though its members were living peacefully on private property.