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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday January 21, 1911
Fresno, California – 90 Fellow Workers Now Lodged in Unsanitary Jail
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of January 19, 1911:
FRESNO WEAKENING, WE MUST WIN
———-HELP IS NEEDED IN FRESNO-FIGHT TO WIN
-ON TO FRESNO-SEND MEN AND MONEY.
———-With 90 I. W. W. men in jail worrying the pin-headed city officials, the county officials are now refusing to pay any part of the expense of the fight.
“Der Chief” is bravely pushing his vagrancy charges and the noble “business juries” find all “GUILTY,” regardless of fact or condition. Any I. W. W. man is a ‘vag,” but that will last but a short time, as the tax payers are getting tired.
The last circular was widely read and is having quite an effect, for every word is known to be a fact.
A new sheriff and a new jail crew took charge on the second inst., and from all news to be had the boys are getting as good treatment as it is possible for men to get in jail.
The “FLOWER” of the I. W. W. is in jail here and you must not let them lose the fight; so do your best.
But few men are coming at present , and many of them are being deterred from going to jail by a few slimy “knockers,” who will not do anything themselves and seem to wish to keep others from doing anything.
Some of the locals are doing well with financial assistance, but so far the greater part goes for postage and for tobacco for the boys in jail. Fellow workers, boost hard and help all you can.
FREE SPEECH COMMITTEE.
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[Emphasis added.]
From The Agitator of January 1, 1911:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Frank Little, FMR p6, Sept 2, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/606951967/
Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-Jan 19, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v2n44-w96-jan-19-1911-IW.pdf
The Agitator
(Home, Washington)
-Jan 1, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/agitator/v1n04-jan-01-1911-agitator.pdf
See also:
Tag: Fresno Free Speech Fight of 1910-1911
https://weneverforget.org/tag/fresno-free-speech-fight-of-1910-1911/
The Agitator & The Syndicalist, 1910 – 1913
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/agitator/
IWW Archive Project
-see Historical Landmark
& articles from Fresno Morning Republican
re Fresno Free Speech Fight, see esp:
Jan 1, 1911
IWW Camps; Frank Little Appeals for Funds
Jan 3, 1911
James Murdock Ill, Physician called to jail
Jan 8, 1911
88 IWWs Now in Bullpen
Jan 9, 1911
89 Now in Bullpen
Jan 11, 1911
Jail Unsanitary per Health Officers
Jan 13, 1911
93 Now in Bullpen
http://mikerhodes.us/iww-archive-project/
Jan 18, 1911-Fresno Morning Republican:
Frank Little Granted Change of Venue on Charge of Vagrancy
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68225510/jan-18-1911-fresno-morning-republican/
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