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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Great Esperanto literature (was: Re: Esperanto? The EU?)
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frenkel@ox.tcs.uh.edu (David Frenkel) writes in a recent posting (reference <3ibbld$4hj@masala.cc.uh.edu>):
>In article <HINSENK.95Feb20182855@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA> hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad) writes:
>>In article <3i8ej9$bhi@masala.cc.uh.edu> frenkel@ix.uucp (David Frenkel) writes:
>>    New words, the funny words are usually born among the lower classes,
>>    and what are the "lower classes" of Esperanto?
>>
>>Esperanto has been used by all "classes", from workers to academics.
>
>     I want to meet those "workers". :)
>

One of the groups which has for many years been among the strongest
advocates and most regular users of Esperanto is railroad workers.
When a train begins its run in Greece, crosses Yugoslavia, Bulgaria
and Romania on its way to Poland, the workers on board feel the
problems of language barriers directly. I do not have figures on this,
but I know from anecdotal evidence that many unions require an
introductory course in Esperanto before workers are placed on international
trains.
You can meet the _workers_ (no quotes needed) at any European train workers'
union gathering, especially those which are international in scope.

I can send you addresses of international railroad worker organization, the 
construction workers' association, the postal workers' association, etc. --
all of which are Esperanto-based.

Or if your sought after "workers" are necessarily lumpen proletariat, there
is a faction of the socialists' organization which could help you meet them.

Miko Formiko.


