Hellraisers Journal, Monday August 21, 1916
Ludlow, Colorado – Miners Join U. M. W. of A.
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Solidarity Forever
for the Union makes us strong!
-Ralph Chaplin
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 20, 1916
From Solidarity: The I. W. W. Organizes the Mesabi
From this week’s edition of Solidarity:
Somebody Has to Get Out of the Way
While life remains I shall always
be with you in the conflict.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 19, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: Mother Jones to Massachusetts Socialists
From this week’s Appeal:
FROM MOTHER JONES.
—–Through the columns of the APPEAL I desire to give expression to my deep appreciation of the thoughtful and kind consideration of the Massachusetts comrades during my recent illness. Your letter to Comrade Hogan, instructing him to spare no expense and that you would foot the bills, bears within itself a deep sense of comradeship which is worth much to us in the movement. I have never yet had to call on the comrades, having always felt that the Socialist movement had no right to pay my bills. My life work is consecrated to the oppressed and suffering ones of the human race; nevertheless, I feel a deep sense of gratitude to our Massachusetts comrades who so promptly and generously offered such substantial assistance.
While life remains I shall always be with you in the conflict.
Hellraisers Journal, Friday August 18, 1916
Mesabi Iron Range, Minnesota-I. W. W. Leaders Under Arrest
From Indiana’s Evansville Press of August 17, 1916:
LEADERS OF MESABI MINE STRIKE KIDNAPPED?
FORTS AND SEARCHLIGHTS PART OF WAR PLAN!Special Correspondence.
HIBBING, Minn., Aug, 17.-“Forts” are being erected by gunmen of the steel trust interest in the hills of Mesabi iron range; searchlights play by night over the mining villages, up and down the main streets of Hibbing, Virginia and Eveleth; kidnaping, the “bullpen” and wholesale intimidation are said to be an attempt to crush the growing strike of workers.
Put in Jail
On the smaller Cuyuna range, south of this district, the strike already has resulted in a miners’ victory, and this fact is spurring the Mesabi strikers on to greater effort and sacrifices in their own strike.
The county jail at Duluth, 75 to 100 miles from the scene of the strike, is filled with miners’ leaders arrested on technical charges of “murder,” the only excuse for which seems to be in the fact that in a free-for-all fight at Biwabik, responsibility for which has not been yet fixed, two men were killed!
All the miners arrested on “murder” or “riot” charges are railroaded down to Duluth, where there is a large colony in jail, including Joe Schmidt, Carlo Tresca, Frank Little, Sam Scarlett and Jos. Gilday all prominent strike leaders.
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The working class and the employing class
have nothing in common.
There can be no peace so long as
hunger and want are found among millions
of the working people and the few,
who make up the employing class,
have all the good things of life.
-IWW Preamble
Hellraisers Journal, Friday August 17, 1906
From the Montana News: I. W. W. Convention Call
Since we arrived here we have learned
that the American people do not want war,
and especially the working people.
-Carlos Lovera
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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday August 16, 1916
From The Masses: Robert Minor on Mexico and American Politics
Since we arrived here we have learned
that the American people do not want war,
and especially the working people.
-Carlos Lovera
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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday August 15, 1916
From The Masses: Robert Minor on Class War in Pittsburgh
GURLEY FLYNN IS SORRY SHE WASN’T
ON RANGE EARLIER
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GILBERT, Aug. 12.-“I wish that I had been in charge of this strike at the start. The demands of the miners would have been higher that $3 per day,” was the statement of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, strike agitator, speaking to a crowd at the Socialist hall here.
Joseph J. Ettor, Miss Flynn and other I. W. W.s have been addressing crowds on all parts of the range during the week. All of the meetings are almost the same, the press, the mining companies and the government being flayed on each occasion.
At each meeting strikers are asked to make out affidavits of abuse at the hands of mining companies or the captains and these are being present to the federal investigators.
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The industrial organization of the working class
is the foundation of the Socialist movement,
and without it Socialism is impossible.
-Eugene V. Debs
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 13, 1916
Terre Haute, Indiana – Debs for Revolutionary Economic Organization
From St. Louis Labor of August 12, 1916:
On the Proposed National Platform
by Eugene V. Debs
Terre Haute, Ind., August 4
Every member ought to read carefully the draft of the new platform of the Socialist Party recently submitted to the party membership for final action. The importance to the party and to our propaganda of a sound platform, a clear and ringing declaration of what the party stands for and what it stands against, cannot be overestimated.
The platform now before us doubtless had the most careful thought and conscientious attention of the committee that framed it and it is certainly well written, its propositions are clearly stated, and its indictment of capitalism and militarism strongly drawn; yet it would be expecting too much to find it free from objection.
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 12, 1906
New Castle, Pennsylvania – Debs and DeLeon to Appear Together
From the New Castle Herald of August 11, 1906:
LEADERS OF SOCIALISM COMING
TO NEW CASTLE
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(Four of the Orators Who Will “Spell-Bind”
at Cascade Park on Labor Day)
