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[sil.]

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[sil.]

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Union, because the employers over there,

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they get a rich man.

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Me poor. I tell in Spanish.

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We got blacks been there

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and the only thing they
do is drive the truck.

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Sweep broom. Sweep the broom, (inaudible). Man, I’ve
been in the shop there, might be 20 years, 15 years,

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you seen job (inaudible) really he wanted
the job, (inaudible) get this man the job,

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you went to the office three or four
times, (inaudible) for the job,

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but they won’t give to you.
Human rights for everybody.

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[non-English narration]

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Once you hit that clock, they
treat just like a child.

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They don’t respect you as a man. Right.

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[sil.]

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It’s to organize the unorganized.

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That’s what this thing is all about.
How much will the union get us?

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We always said to you, the union can’t get you a damn thing. We
always said that, but through the union is what you can get.

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We brought these people out here, which have been
struggling in these shops down through the years,

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fighting every two years, every three years

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to improve on their situation. Now,
if you take a look at these people,

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they’re workers, just like you. Garbo(ph) has
worked in his shop longer than most of you are old.

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Now, he looks like he’s 39, but he’s
been in the plant for 39 years.

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(inaudible) 20 problems, we (inaudible)
and nine times out of ten,

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we get it settled on the first step. (inaudible) stop production. No, no, no! They
don’t want nothing to interfere with that. Where you guys were working before

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the (inaudible) union?

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Same place and it was a different
union, Local 24. Which one is better?

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Which one is better? UE! UE, ah?
Never… (inaudible) Local 24, run.

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I never regret today that
because I’m a union member.

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See, in this place it’s not only hot,

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it’s dangerous and it’s unsafe.
So we need a nurse.

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They said, no, until two or three die,
then I will start thinking about a nurse.

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Well, did they say that to you? That’s right.
What’s the matter with those people in that shop.

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Well, see, that’s the difference, that’s the difference
with having a union and no union. They tell you,

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there’s the door. They
tell us there’s the door,

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let’s go downtown and find out
what door is going to swing.

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Sometimes you get it, sometimes you can’t. I’m not gonna tell anybody
that you’re gonna get everything right away, because you are not.

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I did my picket duty in the daytime and I
worked at night. At first you get the union in

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and then you gotta fight for everything,
you know. And we’ve been in since ‘44

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and I’m fighting every day, so is (inaudible). Go into that shop,
stay with the issues, and just get around all of the other workers

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and we just gotta hold it just two more days,
do not be misled on the question of promises

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and what have you, because the company is
gonna do everything that they can within

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the next 18 to 24 hours to
change your mind into confusion.

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Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
Thank you very much.

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Excuse me.

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We have a meeting in the park, you know, just
before you get to the Holiday Inn. I’ll come.

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You know where that is? We’ll see
you over there, ah? See you.

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Here’s… This is Stuart (inaudible),
eight years there. Manuel.

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They raised a question
at the company meeting

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that you guys are striking all the time.

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You want to tell him how it works down there and what’s…? I
have been there eight years and there have been no striking.

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They say, a year ago. The company lawyer said
a year ago they had a strike in (inaudible).

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I know he is a liar, but…

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What it comes down to is
a question of respect.

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When those guys go into negotiations, the
boss knows he’s got the deal with what

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the workers have voted
on and put on the table.

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That’s why they keep going up when
the cost of living keeps going up,

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and you guys keep getting pushed
back down, year in and year out.

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That’s what it comes down to. You
know, we were there meeting Monday

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and I asked him about (inaudible) why you are (inaudible) manufacturing with smaller company, why
don’t (inaudible) so we called in. They won’t give us no information. Yeah. Nobody answered us.

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Nobody answered the phone. You know, I said, well, can I meet you?
(inaudible) call again. And everybody (inaudible) wait, you know,

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but he said, well, we called this morning, we didn’t have no
time right now, you know, we gotta talk about other things.

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[non-English narration]

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Pete, come on up the front here. Shaman. There’ll
be rumors, there have always been rumors.

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It’s the same people that have been telling you, Mr.
Wells would never let one worker in there with a card.

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If Wells catches them, he’d fire them.
There’s not one worker been fired. Not one.

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The choice is yours. And the only way that you
can change your conditions is to get in there

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and do the job in the next couple of days.
It’s in your hands.

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We need one Arabian brother

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from the second shift to be in
there to make sure. Abdulla.

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You think Abdul Hussein. Yeah. There is the first one.
Okay. And we want him stay there to the last vote.

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We gotta win by big. I know we’re
gonna win by big. How big?

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About 75-80%

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[sil.]

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Did you vote? Yeah, I voted today.
And how did you vote? I voted yes.

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[sil.]

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That’s good. Now, who are you taking pictures
of, may I ask you? Who are working for?

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Well, they asked me what I was doing here and they know
and there is an election site cordoned up, that’s all.

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Everybody is talking about this election.
Who’s everybody?

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Everybody in the city for the years that this place
needed a union. Where did you to get that information?

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What are you taking pictures of with that thing, the cars
coming out in there? People in the cars, not the cars itself.

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And what’s the purpose of that?

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To see how they feel about
getting a union in the plant.

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Oh, we could pretty well tell you how
they feel about that. How’s that?

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Ah? How do they feel? Well… Yeah. What is this thing
you have here? Recorder? This is a microphone.

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I hope you have ways of protecting
that, you know. Did you vote already?

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Yeah, we’re gonna win, sure. Because
everybody with the union, with UE.

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Not for a union, because
everybody likes UE union.

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[non-English narration]

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UE! Everybody is happy.

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Everybody happy. Yeah, yeah.

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We win. We want this union. We want this union. You
know, they were saying we want it bad. (inaudible)

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pushed around too long.

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You started it and you’re on the way
now, you’re on the way. John Wilson.

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Yeah. He said, you black ass, you mother
fuckers. How about Jim Barcia? Yeah.

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Now, how long did you worked in the right
wing? I’m gonna kick you the (inaudible).

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We will have to do now, out of those
167 who voted against the union.

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Yeah. You get a 100 behind the contract. Yeah, right. You cannot do
it if you fight with them. They are workers. Yeah, you’re right.

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I’m not gonna fight with them. No,
no fight. That’s hard. It’s okay.

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That’s right. We won. We won (inaudible).

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He’s gonna be drooping all mud.
Right. Yeah!

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Let me say one thing. When we organized,

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a brother here asked me in Spanish,
who is the Jew in this union?

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What they were saying in the factory was

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that this union is a union of communist
Jews. I came from Israel, so I’m a Jew.

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We’re all cousins. Yeah, we’re cousins.
And now we’re brothers.

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And this shit will keep up. They are
going to try to split now the Arabs

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from the Mexicans, the blacks from the white.
Yeah. They don’t make no difference – Arab, Jews,

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black, Mexican. That’ll make no difference.
We’re all human beings.

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We work in the same place.
We work in the same place.

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Hot, dirty, and no good thing.

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UE.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We want passion.

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Ah yeah, yeah.

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It’s gotta be your celebration.
If you want to bring your wife…

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Bring everybody. Your friend, everybody.

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Hey, Jim, (inaudible)? At union.

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In the union hall in Chicago (inaudible).

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We are very proud of you being here
and we want to give you the welcome

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to our union, the UE Union in Chicago.

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[non-English narration]

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Well…

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Speak into the mike. We worked on it pretty hard, worked on it for
a long time, we beat the company, now let’s go on with the fight

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and get that contract signed.

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Well, what can I say? I’m proud and I’m
happy that everybody stood my me at times,

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everybody said that I turned against the
union, that I work for the company,

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I never did, and everybody stood by me, and
I’m proud that, and I’m happy for that.

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Look up Jane.

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I want to thank everybody. We beat this company
and we are going to keep on beating them.

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Thank you very much.

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Well, I’m glad to see everybody here today.

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And it was the hardest struggle,
but we won it. Thank you.

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[sil.]

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Thanks for all for helping this.
Now it doesn’t make,

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we got the union and that everything is gonna work.
We get the name now, it’s now time to play the game.

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Thank you.

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They had all the money, but you kept
the people together and you beat them.

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We’re gonna have a long hard fight to get
a contract now. It’s not gonna be easy.

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But I know, just looking around this room today,
you’re gonna succeed, you’re gonna get a contract,

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and we’ll be working together for
many years. Ah… It’s good to see

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that not only the brothers and sisters from
the plant get together, but the families.

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I want you to understand one
thing, is that Mr. Wells

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is not gonna accept what you did to
him Friday, as total destruction

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and lay down and die,

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because… Oh,

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you gotta translate. Yeah. You want it now.

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No, no.

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Okay. He’s gotta translate and I
often walk off and forget about it.

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[non-English narration]

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I say again to you, the only people
that can sell out in this witness,

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is you, yourselves, in a
rank and file union like UE.

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[sil.]

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UE!

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[sil.]

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Everybody happy. Every brother is black,

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every brother Mexican, every brother Jew.

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I don’t care what color
you are, black, white.

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I don’t (inaudible) we’re gonna…
we’re gonna through desert.

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Hey guys, you like the cake? Yeah, they are
good. You know that UE once had a chuchu,

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a little booklet for a chuchu train?
And this is supposed to,

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you know, be a symbol of the UE chuchu,
you get onboard the UE chuchu,

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you know, you get organized,
that’s the first wheel that turns,

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then you sign that contract and keep on fighting the
boss and everything, and the wheels keep spinning

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faster and faster, and the more
steam you put in, the chuchu train,

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the more steam you put in to organizing and
fighting the boss is the more you get. Right?

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[sil.]