Hellraisers Journal: Big Annie Clemenc, Strikers’ Flag Bearer, Seriously Ill at Her Mother’s Home in Calumet, Michigan

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Quote Poem Ellis B Harris re Annie Clemenc n Women of Calumet, Mnrs Mag p14, Nov 27, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday January 19, 1914
Calumet, Michigan – Annie Clemenc Seriously Ill at Her Mother’s Home

From the Dayton Daily News of January 18, 1914:

Annie Clemenc Ill in Calumet, Dayton OH Dly Ns p21, Jan 18, 1914

Saturday January 19, 1914 – Calumet, Michigan
–Annie Clemenc, Seriously Ill, Cared for at Her Mother’s Home

Annie Clemenc of Calumet has been very ill and under a doctor’s care since early this month.  Charles Edward Russell who is in the strike zone as part of the Socialist Party Investigating Committee went to visit her on January 10th. He reported that “she lay in her mother’s house, unconscious part of the time and part of the time shaken with nervous convulsions.” She is receiving sickness benefits from Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota (Slovene National Benefit Society), something she has never needed before.

We are left to wonder how much of a role the Italian Hall Massacre plays in her  illness. Annie, as President of the Calumet Women’s Auxiliary (W. F. of M.), was the driving force behind organizing the Christmas Party for the strikers’ children. The evening began with so much joy, but then ended with Annie holding a dead child in her arms, and attempting hopelessly to revive the little one.

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Poem Ellis B Harris re Annie Clemenc n Women of Calumet
Miners Magazine p14, Nov 27, 1913
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112043506416&view=1up&seq=454

Dayton Daily News
(Dayton, Ohio)
-Jan 18, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/397906217/

Annie Clemenc and the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike
-Lyndon Comstock
Lyndon ComstockJun 12, 2013 
(search: ill mother’s house) p113
https://books.google.com/books?id=0-FGAgAAQBAJ
Note: Comstock mentions a 10-day jail sentence reportedly served by Annie during January 1914. I find no mention of Annie in jail, not from Calumet News, nor from the Miners Bulletin. Annie in jail for 10-days would have been big news.
https://books.google.com/books?newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=0-FGAgAAQBAJ&dq=annie+clemenc+jail+sentence&q=jail+ten+days#v=snippet&q=jail%20ten%20days&f=false
 
See also:

WE NEVER FORGET: Big Annie Clemenc, Heroine
of Michigan’s Copper Country, and Christmas Eve, 1913, Italian Hall Tragedy

Conditions in Copper Mines of Michigan
Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on mines and mining, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, Second session pursuant to H. Res. 387.
(Feb 9-Mar 23, 1914)
Volumes I-VI
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011597245
Search: annie clements. Note no mention of 10-day jail sentence.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?id=uc1.aa0016263089&q1=clements&sz=25&start=1&sort=seq&hl=true&page=search&seq=1&orient=0
https://books.google.com/books?id=JlROAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22people+v+annie+clements%22&q=clements#v=snippet&q=clements&f=false

Pearson’s Magazine, Volume 31
(New York, New York)
Pearson Publishing Company, 1914
https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZQkAQAAIAAJ
p437: from April 1914 Edition
(search: calumet russell)
“The Associated Press and Calumet”
-by Charles Edward Russell
p443-444: re Annie Clemenc ill. Note: no mention of 10-day jail sentence.
(search: january nervous collapse)

…..The attacks made upon her never seemed to daunt her spirit, but the broke her physical strength. Early in January she suffered a nervous collapse, and the last time I saw her, on January 10, she lay in her mother’s house, unconscious part of the time and part of the time shaken with nervous convulsions…..

The Outlook, Volume 106
(New York, New York)
Outlook Company, 1914 
https://books.google.com/books?id=qbsRAAAAYAAJ
(search: inis weed) p247-250, + 251 (after photos)
-Jan 31, 1914, Edition
“The Reasons Why the Copper Miners Struck”
-by Inis Weed
-p250 re “Big Annie” –Note: no mention of 10-day jail sentence.
https://archive.org/details/sim_new-outlook_1914-01-31_106_5/page/246/mode/2up?view=theater
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044009730482&seq=322&q1=big+annie&start=1&view=2up

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