Month: July 2016

Hellraisers Journal: From Solidarity: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on “Problems Organizing Women,” Part I

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No matter what your fight, don’t be ladylike!
God Almighty made women and
the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
-Mother Jones
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Friday July 21, 1916
From Solidarity: Miss Flynn on Organizing Women

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Reno Gz-Jr, July 12, 1916

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World who recently arrived in northern Minnesota to assist with the strike of the iron miners of the Mesabi Range, on July 15th had published in that organization’s weekly journal, Solidarity, an article on the problems of organizing women. Miss Flynn encourages working women to rebel against the limits enforced against them by the prevailing attitudes which dictate that women should be “lady-like” and stick to tending home and children. Today we offer part one of the article; part two will appear in tomorrow’s Hellraisers Journal.
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Hellraisers Journal: I. W. W. Will Attempt to Organize Dock Workers in Sympathy with Mesabi Iron Miners

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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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Thursday July 20, 1916
Duluth, Minnesota – Haywood Seeks Strike Funds

From The Duluth News Tribune of July 19, 1916:

MN Iron Strike, BBH seeks funds, DNT, July 19, 1916

 

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Hellraisers Journal: Denver Housemaids’ Union, Led by Jane Street, Keeping a List of Unfair Mistresses

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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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Wednesday July 19, 1916
Denver, Colorado – I. W. W. Organizing Housemaids

From the Chicago Daily Tribune of July 14, 1916:

Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, no sig of book owner


SABOTAGE COOKS’ SCHEME TO
MAKE MISTRESS KIND
—–
Denver Domestic Workers’ Union
Black Lists
Rich Housewives Who Do Not Behave.
—–

Denver, Colo., July 13-Sabotage is the new weapon the Denver Domestic Workers’ union will use to reform rich mistresses, Miss Jane Street, organizer, said today. About 1,000 housewives here are listed, their virtues and faults catalogued and classified.

Interesting things happen when an I. W. W. maid or cook arrives in a blacklisted household to train the mistress in the way she should honor and obey her servants.

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones in Atlanta, Georgia, Where Legislation on Child Labor Is Pending, Gives Interview

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tuesday July 18, 1916
Atlanta, Georgia – Mother Jones in City for Short Stay

From The Atlanta Constitution of July 12, 1916:

Mother Jones, Atlanta Constitution, July 12, 1916


Mother Jones, Laborers’ Friend,
Confers With Local Leaders
—–


Picturesque Character Here on
Flying Visit-
Is Her Visit Inspired by Pending
Legislation Before General Assembly?
-She Will Not Answer.
—–

Mother Jones, known internationally for her defense of organized labor and for agitation for improved labor conditions generally, arrived in Atlanta early yesterday afternoon, direct from Washington, D. C., on a mission, the precise nature of which she declines to reveal. She is scheduled to leave the city this afternoon.

At the train Mother Jones was met by a delegation of union labor friends, headed by Jerome Jones, editor of The Atlanta Journal of Labor, and was taken at once to the Ansley hotel, where she is a guest. During the afternoon she visited the federal penitentiary.

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Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Speaks in Duluth and Collects Donations for Striking Iron Miners

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Monday July 17, 1916
From The Duluth News Tribune: Miss Flynn Speaks at Finnish Hall

The following appeared in the July 15th edition of the Tribune:

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Reno Gz-Jr, July 12, 1916


WOMAN LOOSENS
I. W. W. PURSES
—–

Elizabeth G. Flynn’s Oratory,
to Music Accompaniment,
Lures $64.08 to
“Cause.”
—–

Affecting oratory, poetry and sentimental melodies were mingled by I. W. W. workers last night to touch the hearts and purse strings of the crowd that jammed Finnish hall, at 314 Sixth avenue East. The “collection” was $64.08.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I. W. W. leader and speaker whose presence in Duluth occasioned the meeting, provided the oratory and poetry after Secretary H. E. McGucken of the local organization, aided by the Finnish orchestra, had sounded the sympathetic chord of the audience with anthems.

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Hellraisers Journal: The Duluth Labor World Blames Deputized Company Gunthugs for Violence on the Range

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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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Sunday July 16, 1916
The Duluth Labor World Shows Surprising Support for I. W. W.

MN Miners Strike, Get Out IWW, Cartoon, DNT, July 6, 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: The Duluth Labor World Questions Special Treatment Given by State of Idaho to Steve Adams

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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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Sunday July 15, 1906
From The Labor World: Case of Adams Found “Surprising”

From Saturday’s Duluth Labor World:

Steve Adams, Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case of 1906-07, Darrow Collection

Besides Orchard, a man named Steve Adams has been charged with the murder of ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho, and now they are telling some “surprising” things about the case of Adams. He is a voluntary inmate of the penitentiary at Boise, has never been taken before a judge, was not taken before the grand jury, has declined the services of the attorneys of the labor unions when offered to him, and has made no effort to get free, although clearly held illegally.

Some time ago Adam’s wife and children arrived in Boise, penniless and poorly dressed. They became the guests of the superintendent of the penitentiary, were taken out driving each day in the warden’s carriage, had plenty of money, and expensive clothes, and so on.
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Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Arrives in Duluth to Assist Striking Miners of Mesabi Iron Range

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It’s great to fight for freedom
with a Rebel Girl.
-Joe Hill
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Thursday July 13, 1916
Duluth, Minnesota – I. W. W. Sends in Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

From the Reno Evening Gazette of July 12, 1916:

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Reno Gz-Jr, July 12, 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: FromThe Duluth News Tribune: “Elizabeth Flynn Arrives to Stir Up More Strife”

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It’s great to fight for freedom
with a Rebel Girl.
-Joe Hill
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Wednesday July 12, 1916
Duluth, Minnesota – Miss Flynn Meets with Local I. W. W. Leaders

MN Iron Miners Strike, EGF Arrives, DNT July 12, 1916

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, prominent I. W. W. speaker and organizer, was in Duluth yesterday and is expected to leave today tor the strike zone on the range to assume an active part in the cause of the insurgent range miners.

The appearance of Miss Flynn and Haywood’s “Declaration of War” against the “United States Steel corporation and independent mining companies of Minnesota,” which is in part an organization appeal for funds with which to continue the range strike, were yesterday’s chief developments in the I. W. W. situation as related to this city.

Miss Flynn registered at the Hotel Holland, giving her residence as New York city.
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