Hellraisers Journal: Women Strikers of Kalamazoo Corset Co. Jailed in Fight for Living Wage and Dignity on the Job

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Quote Mother Jones Raising Hell, NYT p1, Oct 6, 1916———-

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday June 12, 1912
Kalamazoo, Michigan – Union Women Jailed Include Josephine Casey and Bella Yount

From The Coming Nation of June 8, 1912
-“A Familiar Strike Story” by Gertrude Barnum:

J Casey n B Yount Jailed re Kalamazoo Corset Strike, Cmg Ntn p11, June 8, 1911

Josephine Casey, General Organizer International Ladies’ Garment
Workers’ Union, seated, and Bella Yount, member Executive Board,
Corset Workers’ Union No. 82 in jail at Kalamazoo, Mich.

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones Raising Hell, NYT p1, Oct 6, 1916
https://www.nytimes.com/1916/10/06/archives/car-riot-started-by-mother-jones-women-relatives-of-strikers-heed.html

The Coming Nation
(Girard, Kansas)
-June 8, 1912
https://www.newspapers.com/image/488967589

See also:

June 8, 1912, Coming Nation
-Girls Jailed for Fighting for Living Wage at Kalamazoo Corset Co
“A Familiar Strike Story” -by Gertrude Barnum
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103699042/june-8-1912-coming-nation-girls/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103701648/june-8-1912-coming-nation-girls/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103701800/june-8-1912-coming-nation-girls/

The Ladies ̓Garment Worker, Volume 3
International Ladies ̓Garment Workers ̓Union, 1912 
(search separately: kalamazoo; casey)
https://books.google.com/books?id=zt8UAAAAYAAJ

Josephine Casey (1878?-1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Casey

Gertrude Barnum (1866–1948)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Barnum

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I Am A Union Woman – Deborah Holland