Hellraisers Journal: From the Industrial Worker: Vincent St. John Announces Western Tour of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Quote V St John, Solidarity Organization, IW p4, May 6, 1909 ———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 15, 1909
Western Tour of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from May to July

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of May 6, 1909:

LECTURE TOUR OF MISS E. G. FLYNN
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INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD
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General Administration,
310 Bush Temple, Chicago.
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Labor Produces All Wealth-
Labor Is Entitled to All It Produces-
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All
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Fellow Worker: The crying need of the hour with the working class is a form of organization that will create and maintain solidarity. To gain this means constructive work of great proportion. It needs correct education as well as correct form of organization. It means laying the foundation for the rule of the working class. It means the building of an organization that will enable its membership to successfully cope with the employing class in its everyday struggle. It means building an organization that will supplant the capitalist system and secure for the workers the full product of their labor.

Can this work be accomplished?
Can this organization be built?
It can and will!
It must be built!

Industrial Unionism on revolutionary lines will furnish the organization needed.

Agitation, education and organization on industrial lines is first required.

The Industrial Workers of the World is arranging a tour of the West for

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

Miss Flynn is one of the cleverest and best posted industrial unionists before the country today. Her exposition of the aims and objects of Industrial Unionism can be understood by all.

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The contemplated trip will fill the following dates:

Dates above given are merely an outline and subject to change when arrangements are completed.

Terms-One lecture, $15.00; each additional date in same city, $5.00. Cost of initial lecture will be reduced to $10.00 if sufficient dates are arranged.

Advertising posters will be furnished free of cost.

Subjects of Lectures:

“Industrial Unionism;” “Effect of Modern Machinery on the Working Class;” “Lessons from the French Postal Strike;” “Industrial Democracy vs. Capitalist Despotism;” “The Class Struggle;” “Women in Industry;” “Industrial Unionism and Woman Suffrage;” “Industrial Unionism and the Unemployed Question.”

Yours for Industrial Freedom,
VINCENT ST. JOHN,
General Secretary-Treasurer.

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[Emphasis in original.]
[Newsclip added is from the May 14th edition of The Citizen-Honesdale, Pennsylvania.]