You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Monday July 17, 1916
From The Duluth News Tribune: Miss Flynn Speaks at Finnish Hall
The following appeared in the July 15th edition of the Tribune:
WOMAN LOOSENS
I. W. W. PURSES
—–
Elizabeth G. Flynn’s Oratory,
to Music Accompaniment,
Lures $64.08 to
“Cause.”
—–Affecting oratory, poetry and sentimental melodies were mingled by I. W. W. workers last night to touch the hearts and purse strings of the crowd that jammed Finnish hall, at 314 Sixth avenue East. The “collection” was $64.08.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I. W. W. leader and speaker whose presence in Duluth occasioned the meeting, provided the oratory and poetry after Secretary H. E. McGucken of the local organization, aided by the Finnish orchestra, had sounded the sympathetic chord of the audience with anthems.
When Miss Flynn came bluntly to the object of the meeting with pleas to “dig down” “cough up,” her listeners did so, their contributions being deposited in hats that were passed about by girls wearing red banners bearing the I. W. W. seal and inscription “One Big Union.”
Miss Flynn confined herself for the most part to a lengthy description of what she called the “appalling conditions existing among the range miners.” She bitterly arraigned the “tactics of deputies hired by the steel corporation.”
Oscar Boose [most likely Arthur Boose] followed Miss Flynn to the platform. He was greeted by gales of laughter that roused his ire and soon caused his hasty retirement from the platform.
Police Chief R. D. McKercher had the meeting under surveillance, but no move toward interference was made. Representatives of the mining corporations also were among the audience, according to Speaker Boose, who declared “he could smell ’em a mile.” He added that experience had developed his sense of scent.
Last night’s meeting will be followed by others next week, according to Miss Flynn. She will leave early today for Minneapolis, where she plans to address a labor picnic to be held there in the afternoon.
—–[Photograph added.]
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SOURCE
The Duluth News Tribune
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-July 15, 1916, page 6
http://www.genealogybank.com/
IMAGE
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Reno Gz-Jr, July 12, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/147168974/
See also:
Memoirs of a Wobbly: With an Article by the Author from the International Socialist Review, August 1914
-by Henry E. McGuckin
C.H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1987
https://books.google.com/books?id=4TB0QgAACAAJ