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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday December 23, 1913
Calumet, Michigan – Strikers’ Children Will Receives Gifts at Christmas Eve Party
Christmas Eve Party to be Given
for Strikers’ Children
The Calumet Women’s Auxiliary of the Western Federation of Miners will hold a Christmas party for the children of the strikers on Christmas Eve. The party will be held in the Italian Hall in Red Jacket. Annie Clemenc, president of #15, has taken the lead in planning for the event, and she has been energetic in raising money for gifts for the children. For many of the striker’s children, these will be their only Christmas presents. The children will receive candy, hats, mittens, and even a few toys.
The children’s party will begin at 2 p. m. There will be a party later in the evening for the adults.
The Calumet Women’s Auxiliary was organize in September, and each member is a card-carrying member of the Western Federation of Miners, but, sadly a member without a vote. And yet these women make their voices heard, marching in the parades, facing the deputies, the Waddell men, the militiamen, and going to jail right along side their striking husbands, fathers, and brothers.
Annie is well known for leading the daily early-morning parades with her massive American flag.
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SOURCES
Quote Ellis B Harris Children of the Poor
Michigan Miners Bulletin p2, Nov 11, 1913
Copy in possession of Janet Raye.
Annie Clemenc
& the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike
-by Lyndon Comstock, 2013
(search: christmas eve party)
(search: womens auxiliary)
https://books.google.com/books?id=0-FGAgAAQBAJ
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Annie Clemenc w Flag, ISR p342, Dec 1913
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v14n06-dec-1913-ISR-riaz-ocr.pdf
See also:
From the Chicago Day Book of December 18, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-12-18/ed-1/seq-30/
These Tots Want Clothes for Christmas-Not Toys
Up in the northern peninsula of Michigan there are 30,000 little children who are not petitioning Santa Claus for toys or candy, but who are hoping that the Good Saint will bring them clothes that hey need to keep them warm and shoes to cover their naked feet…..
From the Chicago Day Book of December 24, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-12-24/ed-1/seq-31/
Calumet Strikers to Have Merry Christmas
Calumet, Mich., Dec. 24.-The strike children of the Michigan copper country will have their usual merry Christmas…..
Tag: Michigan Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/michigan-copper-country-strike-of-1913-1914/
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Coventry Carol (Lully Lullay) – Lamp Lighters