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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday June 7, 1921
Boardman Robinson on the Unemployment Crisis
From The Liberator of June 1921:
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Hellraisers Journal: The Blanket Stiff: He walks and walks the road he built and carries his home upon his back.
Then we’ll sing one song of the poor and ragged tramp,
He carries his home on his back;
Too old to work, he’s not wanted ’round the camp,
So he wanders without aim along the track.
-Joe Hill
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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday March 4, 1908
“The Blanket Stiff, Product of Roosevelt’s Prosperity”
From the Socialist Montana News of February 27, 1908:
The Man Without a Country
Still on the Hunt for the Dinner Pail
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The Wage Slave
A little more than half a century ago a question of great interest to the country was brought up by a few men and women who saw the evil effects of slavery and its consequences. The question was agitated so persistently that it spread through the world. Not to our own country was it confined, but it became the absorbing question in Europe, and it was acknowledged that it was an evil and a disgrace to humanity and to the civilized world that beings made in the image of God should be subjected and treated like animals.
Hellraisers Journal: Appeal to Reason: Eugene Debs on “Panic Philosophy” & “widespread poverty, misery & despair.”
While there is a lower class, I am in it,
While there is a criminal element, I am of it,
And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
-Eugene Victor Debs
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday December 30, 1907
#630 of Appeal to Reason Addresses “A Stupendous Crisis”
From the Appeal of December 28, 1907:
The following is the contribution made by Debs to the “Panic Edition”-
THE average man understands in a vague way that there is a panic, so-called, and he is more or less concerned about it according as it affects his business or his employment. But he has never studied economics and knows nothing about the laws governing social development. The panic distresses him, it is true, but he is not philosophic enough to inquire into its cause; he simply wants to get rid of the plague.
And so the average man falls easy prey to the political quack in the service of the industrial baron who glibly rings the changes on “financial stringency,” “elastic currency,” “lack of confidence,” “tariff revision,” “trust regulation” and like meaningless twaddle.
It is a fact to be deplored that the average man is a mental child; reads little and that mostly vapid nonsense; thinks less, and reasons not at all.
Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: “Defendant was out of work,” by Art Young
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there
and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes.
I told him if he had stolen a railroad
he would be a United States Senator.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday September 10, 1916
From The Masses: Irrelevant Evidence by Art Young
Attorney for the Defendant: “Your honor, the defendant was out of work. He has a sick wife and three small children.”
Prosecuting Attorney: “Your honor, I object. The evidence is irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial.”
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