It’s great to fight for freedom
with a Rebel Girl.
-Joe Hill
Thursday July 13, 1916
Duluth, Minnesota – I. W. W. Sends in Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
From the Reno Evening Gazette of July 12, 1916:
WARFARE ON GREAT STEEL
WORKS OF MINNESOTA
DECLARED BY I. W. W.
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New York Organizer of Lawless Body Arrives at
Duluth On Her Way to Strike Zone;
“Ole Bill” Haywood Seems to Be
in Charge and All Signs Point
to Coming Trouble
—–DULUTH, Minn., July 12.-Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I. W. W. speaker and organizer, is in Duluth today and is expected to leave for the strike zone on the Minnesota iron ranges to assume an active part in the strike there, probably this afternoon.
The appearance of Miss Flynn and Haywood’s “Declaration of War” against the United States Steel Corporation and independent mining companies of Minnesota, which declaration is in part an organization appeal for funds with which to continue the strike, were this morning’s chief developments here.
Miss Flynn admitted she might be the advance guard of a fresh force of leaders sent for some days ago-the materialization of the promise of William D. Haywood, general secretary-treasurer of the I. W. W., to immediately replenish the ranks of range leaders and organizers depleted by arrests.
Big posters, headed “Declaration of War” and signed by William D. Haywood , appeared on the streets here with the coming of Miss Flynn.
The “get-together Meeting” of Range city and town officials and miners and operators, slated for Virginia last night fell through. Miners and operators failed to arrive at the meeting.
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SOURCE & IMAGE
Reno Evening Gazette
(Reno, Nevada)
-July 12, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/147168974/
Janne Lærkedahl – The Rebel Girl