1:50 “Rye turned back to watch the sunrise over the Selkirks - a smoky red gash where someone had set a fire to get a job fighting it. Last year, Rye might have paid to get a shovel on that blaze, but Gig had gone and joined the IWW, the union fighting the corrupt employment agents who charged a buck for job leads.” I’m Betty Martin and that’s a quote from the beginning of Jess Walter’s newest novel The Cold Millions. It’s 1909 and times are tough for the cold millions, the millions of unemployed who live out in the cold while the wealthiest spend their days in warm personal libraries and clubs devising ways to suppress the unions and keep wages low.