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Hellraisers Journal – Friday December 1, 1911
I. W. W. Free Speech Fight On in Aberdeen, Washington
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of November 30, 1911:
The Spokane local of the Industrial Workers of the World is to rush 100 of its members to Aberdeen, Wash., to fill the jails of that town. They will help in a street speaking agitation now being waged there.
A telegram from Aberdeen Wednesday to the local secretary, W. A. Douglass, stated the fight was on and urged that all available men in Spokane start immediately. The communication stated the organizer and secretary of the Aberdeen local were already in jail for street speaking.
Reports from Portland, Ore., tell of an outbreak of “soap box orators” in that city. In conference Wednesday the chief of police and Commissioner Coffey decided to jail all speakers creating street demonstrations. The Spokane local says men will be rushed to the Rose city immediately, if necessary.-Spokane “Chronicle.”
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Reinforcements From Vancouver.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 24.-At the local headquarters of the I. W. W. it was declared tonight that 368 men are going from here to Aberdeen, Wash., to participate in the free speech fight there.-“Spokesman-Review.”
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-Nov 30, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v3n36-w140-nov-30-1911-IW.pdf
See also:
Fellow Workers and Friends
I.W.W. Free Speech Fights as Told by Participants
-ed by Philip S. Foner
Greenwood Press, 1981
-pages 123-130
Note: Aberdeen WA FSF of 1911-1912, not to be
confused with Aberdeen SD FSF of 1914.
https://books.google.com/books?id=y4yxAAAAIAAJ
One Big Union Monthly
(Chicago, Illinois)
Industrial Workers of the World, 1919
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858046058511&view=2up&seq=6
“Mainspring of Action” by C. E. Payne
-OBU Mly of March 1919, page 29
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858046058511&view=2up&seq=109
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