You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday February 20, 1917
Seattle, Washington – Caroline A. Lowe Joins Defense Team
From Charles Ashleigh for Defense News of February 17th:
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 17th.
The panel of jurors, from which will be drawn the twelve to serve in the cases of the 74 men charged with murder, has been already published. There are 175 jurors on the list, of whom 71 are women.
MISS FLYNN HAS
SUCCESSFUL TOUR.Elizabeth Gurley Flynn has just returned from a speaking trip through Washington, Oregon, Idaho and part of Montana in the interests of the Defense of the 74 victims of Bloody Sunday. Every where the workers have heard eagerly the facts of the tragic and brutal massacre of November 5th and have given willingly of their time, energy and money to help set free our imprisoned fellow workers. Miss Flynn will now be engaged until the trial in the State of Washington and, more especially, in King County.
WELL KNOWN WOMAN VOLUNTEERS FOR DEFENSE.
The Defense has secured most valuable aid in the services of Miss Caroline A. Lowe, a woman of national prominence, who has entered into the campaign for the release of the 74 working men who are threatened with life-long imprisonment for their belief in Free Speech. Miss Lowe is an attorney-at law, practicing in Kansas and California and was formerly vice-president of the Kansas City Teachers’ Association. She was also National Lecturer for the Socialist Party. Miss Lowe addressed the U. S. Senate Committee on National Suffrage, during the Suffrage hearing in 1911. She was prominent in the fight for Free Speech in Kansas City, Mo., in the winter of 1913-14 when the workers won a clear-cut victory, securing the right to use the streets as a public forum.
SOME VICTIMS OF THE OPEN SHOP THUGS.
H. Golden, the man who recently had his leg amputated, has been discharge from the hospital but is in no fit condition yet to move. Joseph Ghilezano [also Ghilazano], who was wounded four times and who was given a silver knee-cap has had to return to the hospital, his leg being in a serious condition. Both of these workingmen, who are still but boys, will probably be incapacitated for life from returning to their trades. They will bear for life the marks of the treatment received at the hands of the “law-and order” gang. Such treatment will help the working-class to remember how much the bosses value our lives, and will make us determine in future to Look After Our Own Safety.
SHALL THE PACIFIC COAST MASTERS WIN AGAIN?
During the last few years there have been several labor cases on the Pacific Coast-and they have all been lost. The MacNamara cases, the Ford and Suhr, the Schmidt and Caplan, and the Billings and Mooney cases have all resulted so far in victory for the Manufacturers’ Associations and Commercial Clubs. Now comes the Everett case. Will this also be a loss to Labor? Shall the labor-hating bosses, their jowls dripping with the blood of previous victims, gain yet more innocent sacrifices to their profit-lust? A great fight must be put up if we would save our fellow workers. The fight cannot be won by the Defense Committee, nor by the lawyers alone; it can only be won if the workers will back it up!
WORKERS, DO YOUR DUTY!
Workingmen should aid in this defense, not just because of sympathy with the men in jail, but because it is their duty. We believe in organization, we believe in class loyalty and all that it implies. Therefore it is the duty of each and every one of us to come to the aid of any member of our class who is threatened with death or imprisonment because he has fought the battle of our class. Any one of us might be in the same position tomorrow; we should then expect the workers to help us. Now, while we are on the outside, let us help those who are inside! Let every worker do his duty and the victory is ours! Don’t forget, the first case starts on March 5th, when Thomas Tracy will be tried. Upon the result of Tracy’s case depend the cases of all the others.
Funds are urgently needed. Send all contributions to Herbert Mahler, Sec’y-Treas. Everett Prisoners’ Defense Committee, Box 1878, Seattle, Wash.
Protests and resolutions should be sent to President Wilson and to Governor Lister, Olympia, Wash. Send demands to your congressmen and senators for a Congressional investigation into the tragedy of Everett, Nov. 5th. ACT NOW!
[Photograph of Caroline A. Lowe added.]
SOURCE
Everett Defense News Letter No. 12
(Seattle, Washington)
-Feb 17, 1917 (046)
(Also source for images of head and foot of newsletter.)
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/pnwlabor/page/1
IMAGE
Caroline A. Lowe, Progressive Woman, Sept 1913
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=no1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA73-IA11
From:
The Coming Nation…Magazine..
Note: this is actually The Progressive Woman
(Chicago, Illinois)
Oct 1912-Oct 1913
-With this note at bottom of front page of Oct 1913 edition: “After Nov. 1, this Magazine will be known as ‘The Coming Nation’-better than ever!”
https://books.google.com/books?id=no1EAQAAIAAJ
The Progressive Woman of Sept 1913
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=no1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA73-IA9
See also:
The Everett Massacre
A History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry
-by Walker C. Smith
IWW, 1918
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001106557
For more on Harry Golden and the loss of his left leg:
His story begins at the bottom of this page-
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=leg%20amputated;id=mdp.39015002672635;view=image;start=1;sz=10;page=root;size=100;seq=227;num=221
“I came to the United States [from Poland] because it is supposed to be a free country.”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=leg%20amputated;id=mdp.39015002672635;view=image;start=1;sz=10;page=root;size=100;seq=228;num=222
The judge instructs him: “If you want to live in this country try and live like an American!”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=leg%20amputated;id=mdp.39015002672635;view=image;start=1;sz=10;page=root;size=100;seq=230;num=224
For more on Joseph Ghilezano,
“Joseph Ghilazano, age 20, shot in shoulder and both legs, entire knee-cap shot off and replaced with a silver substitute.”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=knee;id=mdp.39015002672635;view=image;seq=102;num=96;start=1;sz=10;page=search
Note: this might be the same Joseph Ghilezano, a year later-
http://www.ironrangeresearchcenter.org/details/0/157685/
Los Angeles Times Bombing
(James and John McNamara Case)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing
Wheatland Hop (So-Called) Riot
(Ford and Suhr Case)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatland_hop_riot
Matthew Schmidt (with link to David Caplan)
http://wyatt.elasticbeanstalk.com/mep/MS/xml/bschmidm.html#bschmidm
Mooney-Billings Case
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAmooneycase.htm
One Big Industrial Union – May Day Chorus of Asheville
Also known as “Paint ‘Er Red” by Ralph Chaplin
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=vTlRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA51
Full size red felt pennants with large I.W.W. label and the wording, One Big Union. With the design and wording in three colors this makes an attractive appearance for demonstrations, and for decorating halls, etc. Price 25 cents each, postpaid.