Hellraisers Journal: Striking Shingleweavers of Everett, Washington, Beaten on Picket Line

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Friday August 25, 1916
Everett, Washington – County Officials Defend Gunthugs

From The Northwest Worker of August 24, 1916:

The NorthWest Worker, Everett WA, Aug 24, 1916

KELLY AND MCRAE DEFEND STRIKE-
BREAKERS AND GUNMEN IN EVERETT
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City and County Police Force Used to Help Beat
Up Striking Shingleweavers and Give
Gunmen Plenty of Freedom
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Once again King Kelly [County Commissioner] has demonstrated the fact to the citizens of Everett that he is the High Mogul in this neck of the woods. The “King” is spending more than a thousand dollars a month of Everett taxpayers’ money in order to keep “specials” to protect the interests of the mill owners. This fact was demonstrated when some 75 strike breakers attacked the picket line of 19 union shingle weavers at the Cargo mill last Saturday morning [August 19th] and the police stood by and laughed and seemed tickled to death to see the pickets get a licking.
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Hellraisers Journal: Pickets Organized at Hibbing, Miners Pour into Union HQ for Membership Cards

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-Mother Jones
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Wednesday June 28, 1916
Hibbing, Minnesota – Striking Iron Miners Issue Demands

MN Iron Miners Strike, IWW Cards, DNT June 28, 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: Duluth Labor World Deplores Violence of Company Police and Rantings of I. W. W.

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-Mother Jones
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Sunday June 25, 1916
Mesabi Iron Range, Minnesota – I. W. W. and the Steel Trust Police

IWW Metal Mine Workers IU No. 490, Hibbing MN, June 19, 1916, w Red
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