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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 21, 1921
Mingo County, West Virginia – Governor Declares Martial Law
-Keeney’s reply is to promise pay to non-union men who quit work.
From The West Virginian of May 20, 1921:
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Hellraisers Journal: Appeal to Reason: Mother Jones, Miners’ Angel, Found in Heaven Wearing the Biggest Crown of All
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 20, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for April 1911
Dreamer Finds Mother Jones in Heaven Wearing Biggest Crown of All
From the Appeal to Reason of April 1, 1911
-page 3, Kansas & Oklahoma edition:
OKLAHOMA NOTES
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Comrade Lee, of Oklahoma City, sends in a list of subs. He says that he had a dream not long ago and found himself, much to his surprise, in heaven. The first person he saw was Mother Jones, who was wearing the biggest crown in the bunch.
Mother Jones, Miners’ Angel
Hellraisers Journal: Monument at Grave of Martin Irons Unveiled During Convention of Texas State Federation of Labor
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 19, 1911
Bruceville, Texas – Monument Unveiled at Grave of Martin Irons
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of May 17, 1911:
LABOR FEDERATION UNVEILS MONUMENT
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Memory of Late Martin Irons Honored
at Bruceville-Missouri Editor Speaks.WACO, May 17.-Addresses were heard at morning session of the [Texas] State Federation of Labor convention today, delivered by D. J. Bell of Bells, Grayson county: Secretary-Treasurer J. T. Smith of the Missouri State Federation of Labor, and others. Most of the delegates went to Bruceville today at noon, where a monument to the memory of the late Martin Irons was unveiled the address being delivered by E. T. Behrens, editor of the Liberator at Sedalia, Mo…..
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[Photograph and emphases added.]
Note: The monument was erected at the grave of Martin Irons on Labor Day, September 5, 1910. The dedication inscribed thereon reads:
Martin Irons, Oct 7, 1827-Nov 17, 1900
Leader Gould Southwest Railroad Strike 1886
Fearless Champion of Industrial Freedom
Erected by the Missouri State Federation of Labor
and Affiliated Unions
Labor Day Sept 5, 1910
1910 Labor Day Ceremony at Graveside Monument to Martin Irons
-photograph taken by Fred Gildersleeve:
Hellraisers Journal: “The General Strike” by William D. Haywood -from Speech at New York City, March 1911, Part II
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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday May 18, 1911
“The General Strike” -from Speech by Big Bill Haywood, Part II
From the International Socialist Review of May 1911:
[Part II of II]
And in Wales it was my good fortune to be there, not to theorize but to take part in the general strike among the coal miners. Previous to my coming, or in previous strikes, the Welsh miners had been in the habit of quitting work, carrying out their tools, permitting the mine managers to run the pumps, allowing the engine winders to remain at work, carrying food down to the horses, keeping the mines in good shape, while the miners themselves were marching from place to place singing their oldtime songs, gathering on the meeting grounds of the ancient Druids and listening to the speeches of the labor leaders; starving for weeks contentedly, and on all occasions acting most peaceably; going back to work when they were compelled to by starvation.
But this last strike was an entirely different one. It was like the shoemakers’ strike in Brooklyn. Some new methods had been injected into the strike. I had spoken there on a number of occasions previous to the strike being inaugurated, and I told them of the methods that we adopted in the west, where every man employed in and around the mine belongs to the same organization; where when we went on strike the mine closed down. They thought that that was a very excellent system. So the strike was declared. They at once notified the engine winders, who had a separate contract with the mine owners, that they would not be allowed to work. The engine winders passed a resolution saying that they would not work. The haulers took the same position. No one was allowed to approach the mines to run the machinery.
Well, the mine manager, like mine managers everywhere, taking unto himself the idea that the mines belonged to him, said, “Certainly the men won’t interfere with us. We will go up and run the machinery.” And they took along the office force. But the miners had a different notion and they said, “You can work in the office, but you can’t run this machinery. That isn’t your work. If you run that you will be scabbing; and we don’t permit you to scab-not in this section of the country, now.” They were compelled to go back to the office. There were 325 horses underground, which the manager, Llewellyn, complained about being in a starving condition. The officials of the union said, “We will hoist the horses out of the mine.” “Oh, no, we don’t want to bring them up. We will all be friends in a few days.”
Hellraisers Journal: “The General Strike” by William D. Haywood -from Speech at New York City, March 1911, Part I
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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday May 17, 1911
“The General Strike” -from Speech by Big Bill Haywood
From the International Socialist Review of May 1911:
[Part I of II]
Comrades and Fellow-Workers:
I came tonight to speak to you on the general strike. And this night, of all the nights in the year, is a fitting time. Forty years ago today there began the greatest general strike known in modern history, the French Commune; a strike that required the political powers of two nations to subdue, namely, France and the iron hand of a Bismarck government of Germany. That the workers would have won that strike had it not been for the copartnership of the two nations, there is to my mind no question. They would have overcome the divisions of opinions among themselves. They would have re-established the great national workshops that existed in Paris and throughout France in 1848. The world would have been on the highway toward an industrial democracy, had it not been for the murderous compact between Bismarck and the government of Versailles.
We are met tonight to consider the general strike as a weapon of the working class. I must admit to you that I am not well posted on the theories advanced by Jaures, Vandervelde, Kautsky and others who write and speak about the general strike. But I am not here to theorize, not here to talk in the abstract but to get down to the concrete subject of whether or not the general strike is an effective weapon for the working class. There are vote-getters and politicians who waste their time coming into a community where 90 per cent of the men have no vote, where the women are disfranchised 100 per cent and where the boys and girls under age of course are not enfranchised. Still they will speak to these people about the power of the ballot, and they never mention a thing about the power of the general strike.
Hellraisers Journal: From The Wheeling Intelligencer: “Heavy Firing From Mountaineers Sunday Night at Merrimac”
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Hellraisers Journal – Monday May 16, 1921
Merrimac, West Virginia – Heavy Firing Continues Sunday Night
From The Wheeling Intelligencer of May 16, 1921:
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Hellraisers Journal: From The Wheeling Intelligencer: Battle Along the Tug Rages On; Six Known Dead in Mingo Coal Fields
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday May 15, 1921
Battle Along the Tug Rages On; Six Known Dead in Mingo Coal Fields
From The Wheeling Intelligencer of May 14, 1921:
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Hellraisers Journal: From The West Virginian: “Bloody Battles in Mingo Zone; Four Killed in Fights Along the Border”
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 14, 1921
Bloody Battles Along the Tug; Fighting Continues on Both Sides of Border
From The West Virginian of May 13, 1921:
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Hellraisers Journal: Regeneración: La Bandera Roja se Cubre de Gloria y Ondea Gallardamente Sobre Tijuana.
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 13, 1911
The Red Flag Now Flies Gallantly Over Tijuana!
From Regeneración of May 13, 1911:
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[Notice of the Capture of Tijuana from C. Pryce]
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for April 1901, Part IV: Scranton Silk Strike Called Off; Smallest of Mill Girls Parade in City
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday May 12, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for April 1901, Part IV
Scranton Silk Strike Called Off; Smallest Girls Celebrate with Parade
From the Scranton Tribune of April 29, 1901:
At a general meeting of the employes of the silk mills of this city, held yesterday afternoon in St. Thomas College hall, the strike which has been on during the last three months was formally declared off and the announcement made that work will be resumed Tuesday morning.
This afternoon the younger girls will celebrate the end of the strike by holding a parade, and tonight a mass meeting will be conducted in College hall, at which Editor William Mailly, of the New York Worker; National Committeeman Frederick Dilcher, of the United Mine Workers of America, and “Mother” Mary Jones will make addresses…..
AN OPEN SESSION.
[Yesterday’s meeting] was open, and of very short duration. The announcement was briefly made that the strike was over, and all hands were ordered back to work Tuesday morning. “Mother” Jones then made a short address, in which she briefly mentioned the successful culmination of the long struggle, and then urged all of the younger girls to participate in today’s parade…
“Mother” Jones spent Saturday in Paterson. Trouble seems brewing there, and a general strike is threatened on account of difficulties with the ribbon workers.
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[Drawing added.]
THE YOUNG UNIONISTS.
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Bootblacks and Newsboys’ Union
Yesterday Were Dined at College Hall
-Several Speeches Made.
———-A unique, but pleasing, spectacle was presented yesterday afternoon, when between three and four hundred boys representing the youngest and newest union in this city filed into St. Thomas’ College hall and there listened to a number of addresses, ate and were merry.
It was the initial appearance of the Bootblacks’ and Newsboys’ union in the city streets and everywhere the youngsters were greeted with friendly and good natured smiles…
“Mother” Jones gave a hearty, cheerful address to the boys, in which she spoke of the necessity of organization and assured the lads of the benefits which would arise to them from their union. Reading rooms will be established for them, those of their number who are musically inclined formed into a band, instructors provided and other advantages secured.
William Mailly, editor of the New York Worker, also addressed the boys. He spoke along the same lines as “Mother” Jones, and, among other things, told of the recent strike of the New York newsboys…..
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