Hellraisers Journal: From Miners Magazine: Joseph D. Cannon Gives Eloquent Funeral Address for Alois Tijan and Steve Putrich

Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913 —————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday September 16, 1913
Calumet, Michigan – Joseph D. Cannon Eulogizes Brothers Tijan and Putrich

From the Miners Magazine of September 11, 1913:

[Partial transcript:]

The following eloquent address was delivered by Joseph D. Cannon at Calumet, Mich., on Sunday, August 14 over the bodies of Aloiz Tizan and Steve Putrich, who were murdered by the hired mercenary assassins of the Copper Barons of the State of Michigan:

Friends, Brothers and Sisters: We are assembled here today to pay our last sad tribute to the memory of our murdered brothers, whose remains, side by side, are about to be enfolded in Mother Earth’s final embrace. And while we join in consoling those near and dear ones so sadly and brutally bereaved, let us also determine to bring into being a condition of society under which there shall be no incentive for man, hireling or otherwise, to take the life of his fellows.

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They met their death unflinchingly. When called upon to give up their lives for your cause, they did not hesitate, but fearlessly proved their worth. Let us here resolve that if the time ever comes that it is necessary for us to meet the crisis, as our brothers here have met it, that we will show the same noble spirit and prove ourselves as worthy exponents our cause as have they.

Their lips are sealed in death, but they speak in a thousand tongues the victory which is coming and for which they have worked not in vain. A few days ago they counted but two of the vast horde struggling for the better conditions which at present is your goal, to day they number the power and force of legions, and the good they are doing your cause is unbounded. And as we close this chapter of their lives let us serve notice on those responsible for these deaths that our cause is still marching on, and victory following victory is coming to us now, and that mere death will impede us not.

[Emphasis added.]

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[“State Militia – Strike-Breakers” by Laura G. Cannon.]