Hellraisers Journal: Mr. Grab-It-All has a very good year while the Ninety and Nine work and die in want and hunger and cold.

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There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday December 31, 1916
From the American Socialist: Grab-It-All’s Very Good Year

GrabItAlls Year, Ryan Walker, AmSc, Dec 30, 1916

From the Appeal to Reason of December 31, 1916:

Ninety and Nine, Rose E Smith, AtR, Dec 30, 1916

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SOURCES

American Socialist
(New York, New York)
-Dec 30, 1916
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/american-socialist/v3n25-dec-30-1916-TAS.pdf

Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Dec 30, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67312470

IMAGES
GrabItAlls Year, Ryan Walker, AmSc, Dec 30, 1916
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/american-socialist/v3n25-dec-30-1916-TAS.pdf
Ninety and Nine, Rose E Smith, AtR, Dec 30, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67312470

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The above poem by Rose Elizabeth Smith appeared as a song in the Joe Hill Memorial Edition of the Little Red Songbook (March 1916), and is meant to be sung to this tune:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Workers_(9th_edition)