Hellraisers Journal – Thursday February 15, 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts – Plans in Place to Send More Children out of Strike Zone
From The New York Call of February 13, 1912:
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 12…..
Children for Philadelphia.
William H. Yates, one of the strike leaders, announced today that 200 children would be sent to Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, arrangements for their care in that city having been made by Miss E. Gurley Flynn, one of the national organizers of the Industrial Workers. Considerable criticism has been heard about sending the children to New York, and to this General Organizer Thomas replies, that it is better for the little ones to be where they can get food and clothing than here were they can have none of these things……
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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From The New York Call of February 14, 1912:
LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 13…..Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, of New York, is here today rounding up 1,000 more children from the homes of mill strikers to be taken to Washington, New York and Philadelphia.
Miss Flynn assisted in the reception of the little strike exiles who went from here to New York Saturday, and she gave an enthusiastic report of their arrival and the heartiness with which they were welcomed.
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