Hellraisers Journal: Mrs. Amos Pinchot and Journalist Gertrude Marvin Meet with Lawrence Textile Strike Committee

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Quote EGF, Heaven n Hell, ISR p617, Jan 1910—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday March 13, 1912
Lawrence, Massachusetts – Mrs. Pinchot and Miss Marvin Investigate Conditions

From The Boston Daily Globe of March 11, 1912:

Lawrence, Meeting w Strike Com, Pinchot Marvin, Miller, Bst Mrn Glb p2, Mar 11, 1912

Left to Right-Mrs Amos Pinchot, Gertrude Marvin, William Gates,
Francis Miller, Edward Reilly, Rebecca Smith.

From the Bridgeport Evening Farmer of March 9, 1912:

Lawrence, March 9-Wearing a chic, white felt crush hat, long gray coat and high boots, Mrs. Amos Pinchot [Gertrude Minturn Pinchot], sister-in-law of Gifford Pinchot who came down here to investigate conditions for herself, was “out and about” at 6, this morning, despite the dismal drizzle that kept even many of the strikers off the picket route.

With Miss Margaret Marvin [Gertrude Marvin], a magazine writer, Mrs. Pinchot breakfasted in true cosmopolitan fashion in a typical “sling ’em out quick” counter lunchroom and then made the rounds of soup kitchens, tenement homes, police stations and courtroom. She argued with strike pickets, policemen and militiamen and got the point of view of everyone whom she saw and who “looked interesting.”

She spoke laughingly, today, of threats by policemen to arrest her for “obstructing the sidewalk” when she questioned them too closely and said she might be tempted when she gets back to New York to write about some of the “inhuman things” she has seen in her two days visit here.

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[Emphasis added.]

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote EGF, Heaven n Hell, ISR p617, Jan 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MVhIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA617

The Boston Daily Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts)
-Mar 11, 1912, Morning Edition, p2
https://www.newspapers.com/image/430943922

Bridgeport Evening Farmer
(Bridgeport, Connecticut)
-Mar 9, 1912, p4
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022472/1912-03-09/ed-1/seq-4/

See also:

Tag: Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912
https://weneverforget.org/tag/lawrence-textile-strike-of-1912/

Tag: Lawrence Textile Strike Committee of 1912
https://weneverforget.org/tag/lawrence-textile-strike-committee-of-1912/

Amos Pinchot (see first wife)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Pinchot

Gertrude Marvin Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Marvin_Williams

Mar 7, 1912, San Bernardino News-Mrs. Fremont (Cora) Older Tells of Lawrence Textile Strike
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97327862/mar-7-1912-san-bernardino-news-mrs/

Where Hearst Stands.

[Said Mrs. Fremont Older:]

We were taken about by a young woman [Gertrude Marvin] who had been sent there by the Boston paper of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst’s paper in Boston had been acting very badly and had been denounced by the strikers. This girl had written several articles that were rejected. So she resigned and stayed in Lawrence, working eighteen hours a day for the strike. She was a pretty, piquant college girl and went about in boots and khaki clothes.

From Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood, page 251:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050276461&view=2up&seq=254&skin=2021

Gertrude Marvin was reporting for the Boston American. She came to me for an interview and got it. When the story was finished, she thought she had something good for her paper, but the managing editor remarked, as he threw it in the wastebasket:

“The big two-fisted thug has put it all over you!”

Miss Marvin resigned and went to work for the I. W. W. in Lawrence, doing publicly work for the strike. Later she was engaged by the United Press to assist Marlen Pew. The stories these two sent out about the strike were so thoroughly appreciated by the papers subscribing to the United Press that these papers sent hundreds of letters from all over the country commending the stories. I saw these letters posted up all over the walls of the United Press’ New York office.

The managing editor of the Boston American finally came to Lawrence and asked Gertrude Marvin to arrange an interview with me. After a long talk with me, he told her that he knew that he had made a mistake in throwing away that story.

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