Hellraisers Journal: Clippings from The Wheeling Majority: Governor Releases Prisoners; UMWA Supports West Virginia Strike Settlement and Senate Investigation

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Quote Mother Jones to Kern re Sen Investigation, Wlg Int p1, May 6, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 24, 1913
West Virginia’s Class-War Prisoners Released

From The Wheeling Majority of May 22, 1913:

Governor Hatfield Releases Prisoners from West Virginia’s Military Bastile

WV Gov H Releases Military Prisoners, Wlg Maj p1, May 22, 1913

Executive Board of U. M. W. A. on West Virginia Strike Settlement

UMWA International EB re WV Strike Settlement, Wlg Maj p1, May 19122

United Mine Workers Journal Supports Federal Investigation of W. V. Strike

UMWJ Supports Senate Investigation of WV, Wlg Maj p4, May 22,  1913

Note: Dan Chain, was pardoned by Governor Hatfield on May 17th:

Dan Chain, WV Prisoner 8228, from photographs of coal miners arrested during the Paint Creek strike of 1912-13.

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones to Kern re Sen Investigation, Wlg Int p1, May 6, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092536/1913-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/

The Wheeling Majority
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
-May 22, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1913-05-22/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1913-05-22/ed-1/seq-4/

IMAGES

Dan Chain-8228
-from photographs of coal miners arrested
during the Paint Creek strike of 1912-13.
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/when-miners-strike-west-virginia-coal-mining-and-labor-history/sources/982

May 17, 1913, Pardon of Dan Chain by Gov. Hatfield
Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia, Part I
U. S. Senate Investigation of 1913
-page 427
(search: “dan chain”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=HQM9AAAAYAAJ

See also:

Tag: Dan Chain
https://weneverforget.org/tag/dan-chain/

Tag: West Virginia Court Martial of Mother Jones + 48 of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/west-virginia-court-martial-of-mother-jones-48-of-1913/

Tag: Senate Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/senate-investigation-of-paint-creek-coal-fields-of-west-virginia-of-1913/

Tag: Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/paint-creek-cabin-creek-strike-of-1912-1913/

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