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Hellraisers Journal: From The Progressive Woman: “The Capitalist Class” by Rudyard Kipling with Music by Franz Beidel

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Quote If Blood Be the Price, LRSB 15th Ed p27, 1919———-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday March 7, 1910
“The Capitalist Class” by Rudyard Kipling, Music by Franz Beidel

From The Progressive Woman of March 1910:

Song We Have Fed You All, Prg Wmn p12, Mar 1910

THE CAPITALIST CLASS

There was some question for a time as to whether Kipling was the author of the poem “The Capitalist Class.” We believe the controversy has settled the authorship in his favor. Comrade Franz Beidel, of Chicago, has written some music to Kipling’s words, thus making one of the most beautiful and effective songs in our revolutionary music. We are glad to give you the music, which is published here for the first time. If there are any who do not care for a minor strain, we would suggest that they change the key to G major, as it is very effective sung this way.

[Emphasis added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: Centralia Trial: Defense Proves IWW Was Attacked Before First Shot Fired, Grimm Lead the Assault

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Quote Wesley Everest, Died for my class. Chaplin Part 15———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday March 6, 1920
Montesano, Washington – Witness Swears Grimm Led Attack on I. W. W. Hall

From The Butte Daily Bulletin of March 1, 1920:

Centralia Trial, re Attack on IWW Hall, BDB p1, Mar 1, 1920

Witness Swears Grimm Leading Attack
on Workers When Killed
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Centralia Trial, IWW Defendants, Spk Chc p1, Feb 7, 1920

Labor Jury Recommends Demand by Workers for
Removal of Soldiers From Montesano.
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(Special to the Bulletin.)

Montesano, March 1.-In a telegram sent late Saturday to the labor councils of Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Centralia and Portland, and also to the metal trades councils of Seattle and Portland, the labor jury attending the trial here has recommended that the withdrawal of regular troops from Montesano be demanded of the governor. The telegram sent out by the labor representatives follows:

“We, the labor committe, request you to demand of Governor Hart the withdrawal of the troops. They are not needed. They are here to an atmosphere.”

Members of the labor jury based their action on the refusal by Prosecutor Allen of Lewis county, who called for the troops, to reveal the information he claimed to have as a justification for calling the troops.

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Hellraisers Journal: From International Socialist Review: Partial Victory for Striking Textile Workers of Ludlow, Mass.

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Quote Mother Jones, re Ruling Class, AtR p2, Jan 23, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday March 5, 1910
Ludlow, Massachusetts – Textile Strikers Achieve Partial Victory

From the International Socialist Review of March 1910:

PARTIAL VICTORY AT LUDLOW.

Ludlow MA Textile Strike 1909 to 1910, Evictions 1, ISR p853, Mar 1910

Announcement was made Feb. 6th in a meeting of the Central Labor union that a complete understanding on the wage scale question had been reached between the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates and their 1,700 employes who struck in September because of a cut in wages.

The wage scale on which the State Board of Arbitration has been at work since the strikers returned to work has been settled by the acceptance by the strikers of a proposition from the associates.

The strike of the Polish employes, now at an end, is regarded as one of the greatest battles between labor and capital which has occurred in some time, not only because of the element of paternalism in it, but also because of the principles involved in the strike.

Ludlow MA Textile Strike 1909 to 1910, Evictions 2, ISR p854, Mar 1910

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Hellraisers Journal: Latest News from Spokane Free Speech Fight by Fellow Worker Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Part II

Janet RayeElizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Quote EGF, Compliment IWW, IW p1, Nov 17, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Friday March 4, 1910
Spokane, Washington – Gurley Flynn Reports from Free Speech Fight, Part II

From the International Socialist Review of March 1910:

Latest News from Spokane
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ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN.
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[Part II of II.]

IWW Spk FSF, George Prosser, ISR p831, Mar 1910

Since the release of the majority charged with disorderly conduct, suits have been entered amounting to $120,000 against Chief of Police Sullivan, Captain of Detectives Burns, Captain Miles and Officers Shannon, Warner, Nelson and Jelsett. These suits are based upon the treatment the men received in the sweat box and the Franklin School. Every man injured will certainly cost the city of Spokane thousands of dollars before the fight is settled. The tax payers seem to have no sense of justice or humanity, consequently an appeal to their pocket-books as a last resort will be the most effective. The I. W. W. have already been forced to spend hundreds of dollars from the defense fund caring for sick and disabled members as they were discharged from custody. At the present time one man, George Prosser, is ill at the Kearney Sanitarium, two others, Ed. Collins and M. Johnson, are confined in local hotels with extreme cases of rheumatism, and Frank Reed is in the Washington Sanitarium ill with erysipelas.

This little fellow [Frank Reed] who, by the way is one of Uncle Sam’s ex-soldiers, went through the hunger strike at Fort Wright and but a few days after his release was re-arrested charged with criminal conspiracy and desecrating the flag. When he was taken ill he was allowed to remain for 48 hours without medical treatment and in a terrible delirium. County Physician Webb excused this ill-treatment by saying that Reed had been left in charge of a trustee, in other words-a fellow prisoner. He was put under the care of a special nurse and during the first 48 hours he was in an extremely critical condition. The cost to the I. W. W. for the first two days alone amounted to $166.00. This is not reported in any mercenary sense for dollars are of course not to be considered in the balance with the life of a revolutionist, but the extreme character of his suffering and the costly treatment that it required is a severe reproach to the standard of civilization attained in the Spokane County jail.

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Hellraisers Journal: Latest News from Spokane Free Speech Fight by Fellow Worker Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Part I

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Quote EGF, Compliment IWW, IW p1, Nov 17, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday March 3, 1910
Spokane, Washington – Gurley Flynn Reports from Free Speech Fight, Part I

From the International Socialist Review of March 1910:

Latest News from Spokane
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ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN.
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[Part I of II.]

Letter T, ISR p828, Mar 1910HE agitation of the I. W. W. and free speech fight in Spokane, Washington, if it brought no other effects has been valuable in that it has forced the officials to take action against the employment agencies. In the beginning of the difficulty they were admitted by Judge Mann to be the cause of all the trouble. Since that time Mayor Pratt has frankly admitted refunding thousands of dollars to working-men who had been sold fictitious jobs by the employment agencies. There were about thirty-one in the city of Spokane but the licenses of all but twelve of these were revoked.

IWW Spk FSF, EGF, ISR p828, Mar 1910

The following statement from Mayor Pratt explains this action: “On the whole we have found that the larger agencies have not been causing so much trouble. Some of the larger men have made a study of the business, understanding human nature, and have been successful. In some cases we find that men who do not understand the business have engaged in it nevertheless and have made a little money and have held on to every dollar that has come into their possession whether they were entitled to it or not.”

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Hellraisers Journal: From International Socialist Review: James Connolly to Publish “The Harp” in Dublin, Ireland

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Quote James Connolly, Cause of Ireland Labour, Wkr Rpb, Apr 8, 1916———-

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday March 2, 1910
Dublin, Ireland – New Home of James Connolly’s Harp

From the International Socialist Review of March 1910:

The Harp, Irish Socialist Federation, ed IUB p4, Mar 14, 1908

THE HARP IN IRELAND—We are informed that the Harp, the journal edited by Comrade James Connolly, has been transferred to Dublin, Ireland, and will be published from there commencing January, 1910. It is hoped and believed that this change of location will be beneficial to the movement in both countries. American comrades will learn at first hand of the revolutionary movement in Europe, and Irish comrades will be kept in touch with Socialist development in America. The subscription price will remain at 50 cents per year.

The January issue among other things will contain a statement of the position of the great Irish agitator, Daniel O’Connell, towards the Labor movement in Ireland—a statement of facts suppressed for 70 years by the middle class historians of Ireland. Every one should read it.

Comrade Connolly has undertaken the entire responsibility for the production of the paper and asks us to appeal to all friends and comrades for help in bearing the financial end of the burden. Letters should be addressed and money orders made payable to Nora Connolly, 436 East 155th street, New York. All Socialist papers please copy.

James Connolly, 1902, Multitext of U College Cork

[Photographs and emphasis added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: Poetry from the Social Democratic Herald: “Be Content” by the “Socialist Pioneer,” Tom Maguire

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Quote Tom Maguire, Be Content, Remembrance p21, Manchester Lbr Press 1895———-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday March 1, 1900
Tom Maguire on Earthly Toil and Mansions in the Sky

From the Social Democratic Herald of February 17, 1900:

POEM Be Content by Monias Maguire, SDH p1, Feb 17, 1900

Remembrance of Tom Maguire, 1865 to 1895, from Manchester Labour Press:

Tom Maguire 1865 to 1895, Remembrance, Manchester Labour Press, 1895

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Butte Daily Bulletin: “Vanderveer Proves Centralia IWW Killed Grimm in Self Defense”

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Quote Wesley Everest, Died for my class. Chaplin Part 15———-

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 29, 1920
Montesano, Washington – Centralia I. W. W. Defended by Attorney Vanderveer

From The Butte Daily Bulletin of February 28, 1920:

Centralia Trial, HdLn Vanderveer for Defense, BDB p1, Feb 28, 1920

LEGIONAIRES ATTACKED HALL
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Witness Testifies Paraders Broke Ranks and
Smashed Windows Before a Shot Was Fired.
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(Special United Press Wire.)

Centralia Trial, IWW Defendants, Spk Chc p1, Feb 7, 1920

Montesano, Feb. 28.-Forrest Cameron, 19, witness in the Centralia trial, today testified the soldiers and paraders broke ranks and started toward the Centralia I. W. W. hall before there was any shooting. Several witnesses told of the movement toward the hall, but more were uncertain whether it preceded or followed the shooting from the hall.

“I heard the crash of glass and saw them breaking in the door,” Cameron said. “After a short interval shooting followed.”

Mrs. Mary Sherman testified she saw the soldiers make a break for the hall, but did not know whether the shooting was before or after they smashed the door.

During cross-examination by Prosecutor Abel, Mrs. Sherman admitted she did not think the defendants were guilty.

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Hellraisers Journal: Testimony of Fellow Workers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and C. L. Filigno at Spokane Free Speech Trial

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Quote EGF, Compliment IWW, IW p1, Nov 17, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday February 28, 1910
Spokane, Washington – Trial of Gurley Flynn and Filigno, Part II

From The Workingman’s Paper of February 26, 1910:

IWW Spk FSF, EGF Filigno Trial, HdLn Workingmns p4, Feb 26, 1910

[Part II of II.]

IWW Spk FSF, EGF Filigno Trial Verdict, Workingmns p4, Feb 26, 1910

The Jury

The first two days of the trial were taken up with impaneling the jury. It fell to Mr. Don Kiser’s lot to have charge of the prosecution’s side of this part of the performance.

About forty men were called before it was possible to get twelve men who were satisfactory. The vast majority were prejudiced against the I. W. W.; in fact, it was a surprise when a man would make the statement that he had formed no opinion concerning the case, or even when one would say he considered labor had a right to organize in order to better its conditions, etc.

Finally, however, by Friday afternoon the jury began to look like a jury and things were ready for taking up the testimony.

[The Prosecution’s Case.]

[Main witness for the prosecution were:

-Detective Martin J. Burns who testified that 20% of those arrested said no more than “Fellow Worker.”

-Chief Sullivan, witness for the prosecution, was unable to explain why foreigners who said no more than “Fellow-Workers” could draw such big crowds.

-“Floor-Spitter” Detective McDonald testified that the men he arrested were all foreigners whose names he could not remember nor pronounce.]

Defense Opens

At 3:30 [Tuesday February 15th] Mr. Symmes addressed the jury, and on request of defense court adjourned at about 4, to take up defense testimony in the morning.

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Hellraisers Journal: The Spokane Trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and C. L. Filigno by Bessy Fiset for Workingman’s Paper

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Quote EGF, re Spk FSF, ISR p618, Jan 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 27, 1910
Spokane, Washington – Trial of Gurley Flynn and Filigno, Part I

From The Workingman’s Paper of February 26, 1910:

The Flynn-Filigno Trial
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(Reported for “The Workingman’s Paper” by its
Editorial Correspondent, Bessy Fiset.)

[Part I of II.

Wednesday, the 9th of February, 1910, saw the opening of the case of the State against C. L. Filigno and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn-Jones for criminal conspiracy.

IWW Spk FSF, EGF Filigno Trial, Workingmns p4, Feb 26, 1910

The fact is that this trial is bringing to light the greatest conspiracy on the part of the MASTER CLASS AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH, PRESS AND ASSEMBLAGE that has yet been revealed in this country, making it rank with the foremost cases that have had direct bearing, or been the direct outcome of the Revolutionary movement in America.

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To any one looking on at this trial the spectacle was certainly a representative in miniature of conditions as they exist in society today. On entering the large courtroom-seating approximately three hundred-one faced the court with the jury box on the left, counsel’s table immediately in front of judge, clerk’s desk just to right, and at extreme right along the wall a row of seats reserved for women spectators.

Between the right wall and the court was a door opening into an anteroom, which in turn let into a corridor leading to the county jail. Between the court and the jury box on the left was the door leading into court chambers.

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