This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 19, 1917
Bloomington, Illinois – Victory for Street Car Strikers
From the International Socialist Review of August 1917:
STREET CAR WORKERS WIN
IN SPITE of the fact that more than one thousand Illinois soldiers were rushed to Bloomington, Ill., in record time, the street car workers won their strike.
The solidarity of labor was 100 per cent strong. More than two thousand employees of the Alton shops downed tools at three o’clock on the afternoon of July 6th and marched to the office of the street car company, where they demanded that the car strike be brought to a satisfactory settlement at once. Every union in Bloomington lined up behind the strikers.
The big power house was closed. Newspapers were unable to misrepresent the strike as there was no power to run the presses, and many of the big industrial plants had to close down for the same reason.
This is a striking example of how solidarity means success. If the workers will stand together as they did in Bloomington they can always win.
From The Chicago Daily Tribune of July 7, 1917:
SOURCES & IMAGES
International Socialist Review Volume 18
(Chicago, Illinois)
Charles H. Kerr and Company
July 1917-June 1918
https://archive.org/details/ISR-volume18
ISR August 1917
https://archive.org/stream/ISR-volume18#page/n33/mode/1up
ISR Bloomington IL Street Car Strike, Aug 1917
https://archive.org/stream/ISR-volume18#page/n52/mode/1up
The Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 7, 1917
Bloomington IL Street Car Strike Settled, Chg Tb, July 7 1917
https://www.newspapers.com/image/28654338/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for July 1917, Part I: Found in Illinois
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