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Hellraisers Journal – Friday July 14, 1911
Members of P. L. M. Junta Arrested in Los Angeles
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of July 13, 1911:
SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 28.-Already Madero the Dictator, has shown “the claw and the fang.” He has, through his Governor Vega of Lower California, demanded the return of the Liberals to Mexico, and warrants have been issued by the United States calling for the arrest of every man who participated in the capture of Tijuana on May 9. The charges are “murder and arson.” The charge is merely a pretext to get them into the power of Madero., where unarmed they will be slaughtered like lambs.
It will be impossibles to arrest the privates as they can’t be identified, but the officers have been arrested and the Mexican government has commenced extradition proceedings. It is now up to every revolutionist to let the government know that if these men are turned over to Mexico, we will have OUR INNING. We must not permit this deal to come off.
The men now arrested are: C. R. Pryce, former commander at Tijuana; J. R. Mosby, J. B. Laflin, Jos, Reed, and two Mexicans. These six men are arrested in San Diego, and as IMMEDIATE ACTION WAS IMPERATIVE, E. E. Kirk, a radical attorney, has been engaged by us to defend them.
Besides this, through Madero’s orders, four members of the Los Angeles Liberal Junta have been arrested, and the capitalist class will try to put them in prison again, where they have already served several years for being Mexican revolutionists. The case the Junta members is being handled by a Los Angeles lawyer. Kirk is a San Diego attorney and as we are without funds to defend our fellow workers, we appeal to every “RED” to remit what he can. If you cannot afford to send us a dollar or fifty cents or more, send it as a loan. Send the money to E. E. Kirk, Union Building, San Diego, Cal., who will issue a receipt for it. These receipts will be treated as notes if you so desire and we will repay them later, as soon as we can.
Remember, we must not let our fellow workers be returned to Mexico to be shot. Stir up public sentiment about this. Get busy. These men fought like men, on the deserts of Mexico. YOU do your part of a man. Yours in the Perpetual Revolution.
STANLEY M. GUE.
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[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Freedom Ricardo Flores Magon, Speech re Prisoners of Texas, May 31, 1914
https://isreview.org/issue/101/intervention-and-prisoners-texas
https://books.google.com/books?id=JHOd18yUxrAC
Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-July 13, 1911, page 3
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v3n16-w120-jul-13-1911-IW.pdf
See also:
June 15, 1911, LA Times-Magon Brothers, Rivera, Figueroa, of PLM Junta, Now in Jail
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81230540/june-15-1911-la-times-magon-brothers/
Tag: First Battle of Tijuana May 1911
https://weneverforget.org/tag/first-battle-of-tijuana-may-1911/
Tag: Second Battle of Tijuana June 1911
https://weneverforget.org/tag/second-battle-of-tijuana-june-1911/
Tag: Magonista Rebellion of 1911
https://weneverforget.org/tag/magonista-rebellion-of-1911/
Tag: Junta Organizadora del Partido Liberal Mexicano
https://weneverforget.org/tag/junta-organizadora-del-partido-liberal-mexicano/
“THE MAGONISTA REVOLT IN BAJA CALIFORNIA”
-by Lawrence D. Taylor
from: The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Winter 1999
(re Joe Reed, see note 68)
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1999/january/magonista/
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“Tierra y Libertad” by Ricardo Flores Magon
-Phil Lamar performs the part of Marcos