Friday June 15, 1906
Denver, Colorado – Bail Demanded for Moyer and Haywood
Thursday June 14, 1906
Denver, Colorado – W. F. of M. Stands By Imprisoned Officers
Tuesday June 13, 1916
From the American Socialist: Special Report from Pittsburgh, Part II
Monday June 12, 1916
From the American Socialist: Special Report from Pittsburgh, Part I
Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 11, 1916
From The Northwest Worker: Now Offering Walker’s Henry Dubb
The Northwest Worker of Everett, Washington, despite experiencing some financial difficulties, now offers the Adventures of Henry Dubb by Ryan Walker. The May 18th edition of the paper explained:
We could save money today by getting out a smaller paper (the size it used to be), and we could cut out the cartoon service, but that is not our method of doing business. We are getting the Ryan Walker cartoon service, commencing with next week. You will all appreciate this and in return all we ask of you is to renew your sub. when you are notified that it has expired. The Northwest Worker is in the field to STAY. You will receive the full 52 issues for your dollar. So again we ask you to renew if your sub. has expired.
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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 – Sunday June 10, 1906
From The Labor World: George Shoaf on the Cripple Creek Situation
From the Duluth Labor World of June 9, 1906:
Denver, Colo., June 7.-I just returned from my trip to the Cripple Creek district this morning. Conditions commercially in that community are really worse than were pictured in this week’s Appeal. The howls from the business men are loud and long. On every street corner groups of men gather and discuss the situation and outlook. In the restaurant conversationalists openly threw off the mask and spoke their mind. They cannot sell their possessions and they have no place to which they can go. They are barred from all other western mining camps-and they dislike to return east and take chances with the unemployed. Where I stayed at night-and I changed rooming houses every night-the men about the stove talked hard times, cursed their luck and admitted their folly in helping the Mine Owners’ association drive the Western Federation from the district.
We are free, truly free, when
we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody
in order to be able to lift
a piece of bread to our mouths.
-Ricardo Flores Magón
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 9, 1906
Report from Bisbee, Arizona: “Agitators” Threatened with Arrest
From today’s Salt Lake Tribune:
AMERICAN MINERS FLEE
FROM MEXICO
—–Mexican Authorities Threaten Agitators
of the Strike With Arrest.
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WESTERN FEDERATION OF MINERS IS BLAMED
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Those Killed in Recent Riots Have Been
Buried Without identification.
—–BISBEE, Ariz., June 8.-As a result of the strike at Cananea, Mexico, mines of Colonel W. C. Greene, last week, the American miners in the camp will be very few in number in the future, it is believed. They are crossing the line in droves, and several hundred have arrived in Bisbee during the last forty-eight hours.
Threatened With Arrest.
On Thursday the Mexican authorities sent a man through the mines notifying all American miners that those who were under suspicion of having agitated the trouble at Cananea and had openly sympathized with the striking Mexicans would on the following day be placed under arrest. The result was a general exodus of Americans.
Western Federation Blamed.
It can be reliably stated that the American authorities believe that members of the Western Federation of Miners at Cananea secretly encouraged and abetted the strike and members of this organization were the first to receive the notice to leave.
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 3, 1906
Tucson, Arizona – Reports on Cananea Copper Strike
From the Arizona Daily Star of June 2, 1906:
(Special to the Star.)Naco, June 1.-There is a great riot at Cananea. All of the Mexicans at the mines of Colonel W. C. Greene are on the strike.
George Metcalf, the purchasing agent of the mines, and his brother, Will Metcalf, have been murdered by the strikers.
Between thirty and forty of the Mexicans have been killed, and about a hundred wounded.
It is reported that two days ago some Mexican police shot an American saloonkeeper wounding him. No arrests were made at the time, but later Colonel Greene had the perpetrators of the deed imprisoned. This precipitated the disturbance. A number of the miners dynamited a large pawnshop, taking all of the arms and ammunition. The company’s lumber yard was then burned, a property valued at a quarter of a million dollars.
Three carloads of refugees have just arrived from Cananea including Col. Greene. They bring the information that all of the Americans are trying to leave Cananea. The Mexicans are trying to dynamite all of the American houses. A reign of terror exists.
Governor Yzabel is said to be enroute with a division of Federal troops, and is expected to arrive at Naco late tonight or tomorrow morning. The situation is very serious, the lives of hundreds of Americans being threatened.
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday March 26, 1906
An Introduction to George Pettibone, Miners’ Hero
From The Miners’ Magazine of November 1901:
From the archives of The Miners’ Magazine, official organ of the Western Federation of Miners, we came across the following introduction to George Pettibone, who now stands accused, along with Charles Moyer and Bill Haywood, of the murder of the ex-governor of Idaho:
Hellraisers Journal, Saturday December 9, 1905
From the Albuquerque Evening Citizen:
Rich of Gotham Frolic While Children Stand in Breadline One Block Away
In an article which appeared yesterday in the Albuquerque Evening Citizen, Mother Jones describes the ostentatious display of wealth at a Madison Square Garden horse show while the children of the poor queued up for stale bread one block away.
Mother describes the Rich Spectators:
Hundreds of men and women, dressed in the height of what they called fashion, were seated in boxes, facing a circle, where well-bred horses, beautifully kept, beautifully fed, beautifully groomed and carefully sheltered from the cold blast of a November evening, were prancing about on the tan bark.
The horse show was in progress. The great garden was hung with gay bunting, the air was oppressive with the perfume of cologne and flowers. Pecks of diamonds glistened at the ears and breasts of the women. Orchids, which I am told cost $5 apiece, were as common at the corsages of the society dames as are daisies in an uncultivated meadow in July.
Mother describes the Hungry Children of the Slums:
I walked a hundred paces east, toward the corner of 27th street, and Fourth avenue. A little army of children from the slums was drawn up before Cushman’s bakery. Those children are there every night at 6 o’clock, drawn up in a line of misery. They came for free bread-stale bread, something to hold together the bodies and souls of brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers.
