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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for October 1906: Campaigning for Socialist Candidates in Illinois and Pennsylvania

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I have been on the firing line
of the industrial battle for years,
and when democratic bullets shot workingmen,
their blood watered the highways just the same
as when republican bullets shot them.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday November 8, 1906
Mother Jones Found Campaigning in Pennsylvania During October

From The Worker of October 6, 1906:

Mother Jones, Mar 11, 1905, AtR

MOTHER JONES ABLE TO SPEAK.

Comrades the country over will be pleased to learn that Mother Jones is soon to be once more in the field [having recovered from a recent illness] and from now till election will divide her time between the 18th Illinois (Speaker Cannon’s) and the 11th Pennsylvania Congressional Districts, in which National board members of the United Mine Workers of America are candidates for Congress on the Socialist ticket, namely: John Walker and William Dettry.

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[Photograph added.]

Mother Jones, Grandmother of Agitation:

NATIONAL AGITATION FUND.

Contributions to the National Agitation Fund are reported:

…Mother Jones, gathered a field, $180…

Note: the other contributors donated between $10 and 50 cents, with the exception of the International Union of Brewery Workmen of America which donated $500.

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Hellraisers Journal: Walsh Blames “Brutal Slave Driving Methods” of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil for Trouble at Bayonne

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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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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday November 7, 1916
New York, New York – Frank P. Walsh on Bayonne Strike

From The Labor World of November 4, 1916:

BAYONNE TROUBLE FAULT OF OIL CO. SAYS FRANK WALSH
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Frank P Walsh from Harper's Weekly of Sept 27, 1913

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-“Wherever there is a big Rockefeller interest, there you find brutal slave driving methods in the treatment of underpaid workers,” declared Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the Committee on Industrial Relations, in New York, at the height of the Bayonne strike.

[Mr. Walsh continued:]

The most dangerous as well as brutal feature of the Rockefeller treatment of labor, is the close control that the Rockefeller concerns gain over the police and other public authorities. With the mayor of Bayonne confessing that he is a hired attorney for the Rockefeller interests, and with the police department using its full force, and hundreds of special deputies [deputized company gunthugs] to beat and kill the revolting strikers, the American public has its latest demonstration of what Rockefellerism means.

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Hellraisers Journal: Fellow Workers Murdered at Everett by Sheriff McRae and Posse of Gunthugs

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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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Hellraisers Journal, Monday November 6, 1916
Everett, Washington – Free Speech Fighters Massacred

BLOODY SUNDAY IN EVERETT, WASHINGTON

WE NEVER FORGET

Everett Massacre, IWW Martyrs at Morgue, WCS

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who, after the brutal events at Beverly Park on October 30th, being determined to establish the right to free speech and union organization in the lumber town of Everett, Washington, were shot down in cold blood by Sheriff McRae and his posse of drunken deputies yesterday, the day now known as Bloody Sunday.

The men had arrived on the steamer Verona from Seattle in order to attend a free speech rally scheduled for that afternoon when they were denied the right to disembark at the Everett dock. Sheriff McRae, by most reports, fired the first shot as if to signal his deputized gunthugs to open fire on the union men.

The account below is from The New York Times which characterizes the union men as “invaders.” We expect to get the working class version of the story in the coming days from the labor and socialist press of Everett and Seattle.

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Hellraisers Journal: Messages from Comrade Haywood, Socialist Candidate for Governor of Colorado

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Have courage and energy;
they may put us in jail,
but imprisonment is not defeat.
Yours for economic freedom,
Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho.
-WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 4, 1906
From Ada County Jail, Idaho – Big Bill Campaigns for Governor

Debs in Denver Nov 5, AtR, Nov 3, 1906

In the latest issue of the Appeal to Reason we find messages from William D. Haywood to the people of Colorado. These messages were sent out to the Appeal by Big Bill from behind the bars of the Ada County Jail where the Socialist candidate for Governor resides awaiting trial in an attempted frame-up on a charge of having murdered the ex-Governor of Idaho. Also found was a notice announcing a meeting with Eugene Debs in Denver on Monday, November 5th, the day before the election.

Haywood Denounces Democrats

Haywood Denounces Plot of Democrats
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“No Compromise in Colorado!” is Still the Slogan Which the Socialist Candidate for Governor of Colorado Sends from His Prison Cell in Idaho to the Loyal Comrades of the Centennial State.

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Haywood to voters of CO, AtR, Nov 3, 1906Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kansas.

I have just received information to the effect that Alva Adams, democratic candidate for governor of Colorado, in his canvass is reading telegrams purporting to be from my representatives. I desire to say to the working class of Colorado that no telegram or message of any description to Alva Adams or any one of his class has been authorized by me. Moreover, no one but the state committee of the Socialist party is empowered to speak for me politically. In every conversation I have had on the subject, in everything I have written, I made it distinctly understood that there shall be NO COMPROMISE IN COLORADO. I accepted the nomination in good faith. There has been a magnificent campaign made. I stand or fall by the decision of my class-the wage-earners. Union men and women, fellow-workers, Socialists, I have never betrayed you-and, by the Almighty, I never shall. I am with you in this fight to abolish special privileges, to establish equal opportunities, to insure justice, life and liberty.

Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho, Oct. 20.

Yours to a finish,
WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.

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Hellraisers Journal: Reporting on IWW Activities in Everett, Minneapolis and the Mesabi Iron Range

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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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Hellraisers Journal, Friday November 3, 1916
From Washington to the Mesabi – Fellow Workers Organize and Fight

From The Vancouver World (B. C.) of October 31, 1916:

EVERETT EXPELS I. W. W.’s.

IWW Label, 2nd Conv, Sept 17-Oct 3, 1906

EVERETT, Wn. [Washington]. Oct 31-When word was received last night that 45 men, said to be members of the Industrial Workers of the World, were coming by boat from Seattle last night, 200 citizens gathered under the leadership of deputy sheriffs and stood guard at the wharf. When the steamer docked and the men cam ashore the waiting citizens loaded them into automobiles and drove them through town to a point beyond the south city limits, where they were liberated and warned to return to Seattle.

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Hellraisers Journal: President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, and the Western Federation of Miners

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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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Hellraisers Journal, Friday November 2, 1906
Boise, Idaho – Secretary Taft to Speak for Governor Gooding

From this week’s Montana News:

ROOSEVELT AGAINST THE
MINERS’ UNIONS.

William Howard Taft, Secretary of War, ab 1905
William Howard Taft, Secretary of War

Boise, Ida., Oct 24.-A special to the Statesman, from Washington. D. C., says:

That President Roosevelt thoroughly approves the course taken by Governor Gooding in prosecuting the men charged with the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg can no longer be questioned. It was officially announced today that Secretary Taft, the strong arm of the administration, at the special request of the president will make two speeches in Idaho in order that the people of that state may know that the sympathies of the national administration are with Governor Gooding and those who stand by him for law and order. Secretary Taft will speak at Pocatello Friday, November 2, and at Boise the next day.

President Roosevelt has been deeply interested in the Idaho campaign since its inception, because he has been anxious that the people shall give their hearty support to the ticket that stands for law and order. He deeply regretted the attempt made in some quarters to becloud the issue when it was so apparent to him this is the only issue involved.

The president is so intensely in earnest that his instructions to Secretary Taft would leave no option, if he had any inclination to choose other topics, but Secretary Taft is as much concerned as the president. One of his friends said when his trip was announced: “You can bet your last dollar that Taft will give those dynamiters hell.”

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Hellraisers Journal: Mesabi Range IWW Prisoners: Orlandich Speaks Thru Interpreter; Schmidt to Visit Dying Wife

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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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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday November 1, 1916
From the Duluth Labor World: News Regarding I. W. W. Defendants

From The Labor World of October 28, 1916:

JOHN ORLANDICH TELLS HIS
STORY FOR FIRST TIME
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gavoilo-john-orlandich-isr-sept-1916

A great big hulk of a man with innocent baby eyes stood looking out of the bars in the St. Louis county jail. The interpreter spoke rapidly to him in his own language. The baby eyes lighted up and filled with tears. Gesticulating, the big man poured forth his tale, in melodious strange sounding words.

It was the first time that John Orlandich had been able to make himself clearly understood since he was imprisoned. Orlandich, Tresca, Scarlett, Cernogorovich, Nickich and Masonovich, Iron Range miners, who went on a strike, are all in jail charged with murder. The people of Minnesota, through their government, claim that these men killed James Myron, a special deputy [deputized company gunthug], during the Range strike.

Orlandich doesn’t even know why he is in jail. He asked the interpreter if he had broken any laws by refusing to work. The trials are to start Dec. 5.

 

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Hellraisers Journal: Women, Children, and Elderly Driven from Their Homes in New York and Illinois

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The bosses ride fine horses
While we walk in the mud,
Their banner is the dollar sign,
Ours is striped with blood.
-Aunt Molly Jackson
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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday October 31, 1916
Immigrant or American-Born, Neither Matters When Workers Strike

Today’s Hellraisers presents two stories of striking workers driven from their homes by company gunthugs. The strikers in Utica, New York, are mostly Polish immigrants. In Hardin County, Illinois, there are very few immigrants, most of the strikers are second or third generation Americans. But we find from these two stories that neither the striker of foreign birth nor the native-born striker can expect any mercy from the gunthugs hired by the companies and deputized by the county sheriff.

From the Duluth Labor World of October 28, 1916:

2,700 POLISH TEXTILE STRIKERS DRIVEN
FROM HOMES IN NEW YORK
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BRUTAL GUARDS ASSAULT WOMEN
TEXTILE WORKERS
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By DANTE BARTON.
Member Industrial Relations Committee.

A. D. Juilliard (1836-1919), wiki

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Right in the heart of central New York, prosperous and boasting of its wealth, there is now an example of cruelty, incompetence and lawlessness against striking workers which rivals the things done in Colorado by the Rockefeller interests, or on the Mesaba range or in Pittsburgh, by the Steel trust.

Just outside of Utica, in the little town of New York Mills, 2,700 Polish men and women, industrious and peaceful, are being thrown out of company houses, terrorized and assaulted by armed thugs and guards, their children sickened and in many instances killed by the diseases of exposure; themselves and their families subjected to starvation and sickness.

These things are being perpetrated against them by their employer, the New York Mills corporation, of which A. D. Juilliard, New York city, is the responsible president, because they have struck for a 10 per cent increase of wages that are too low, by any standard, for decent living.

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Hellraisers Journal: How the Railroad Brotherhoods Won the Battle for the Eight-Hour Day

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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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Hellraisers Journal, Monday October 30, 1916
Washington, D. C. – The Brotherhoods and Adamson Act

The October edition of the International Socialist Review published two articles regarding the Railroad Brotherhoods and the Adamson Act, which we have re-published in today’s Hellraisers, see below. President Wilson signed the Adamson Act into law early in September just in time to prevent a national railroad strike set to begin on Labor Day.

From the cover of the Review, October 1916:

RR Worker, The Winner, ISR, Oct 1916

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