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Hellraisers Journal – Friday December 26, 1913
Strikers’ Children of Calumet Murdered as Sacrificial Slaughter to Capitalism
From Työmies of December 26, 1913:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6
Työmies
(Hancock, Michigan)
-Dec 26, 1913
https://www.lawcha.org/2013/07/25/100-years-later-michigans-1913-14-copper-country-strike/83murdered/
See also:
“MURHATTU! lakkoliasten lasten joloujuhlasta tehtün julma kapitalismen uhriteurastus”
Google translates:
MURDERED! strikers children from the Christmas party done (by) cruel kapitalismen(‘s) sacrificial slaughter
Työmies (The Worker/Workman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty%C3%B6mies
Finnish Federations
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/lf/lfedfinnish.html
Dec 26, 1913, Chicago Day Book, Noon Edition, pages 1+2
“Who Is Responsible for Murder of Children at Calumet?
Over Seventy Lives Lost at Miners’ Christmas Celebration When Some Dastard Yelled “Fire”-Stories Invented for Press to Save Operators From Criticism.”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-12-26/ed-1/seq-1/
Dec 26, 1913, Chicago Day Book, Last Edition, pages 1-3
“The Murder At Calumet Is on The Souls of Greedy Mine Owners
And the People of the United States Can’t Escape Their Share of the Responsibility-Men Can’t Get Liberty and Justice by Passing the Hat.”
-by N. D. Cochran
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-12-26/ed-2/seq-1/
Tag: Italian Hall Massacre
https://weneverforget.org/tag/italian-hall-massacre/
Tag: Michigan Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/michigan-copper-country-strike-of-1913-1914/
Friday December 26, 1913, Työmies: “83 Murdered!”
The Finnish Socialist Newspaper of Hancock Translated.
Työmies, the Finnish Socialist newspaper of Hancock, Michigan, did not mince words in its headline of Dec. 26th, but called the deaths at the Italian Hall “MURDER:”
Christmas celebration of strikers children of Calumet
made into a crime sacrifice for capital.
The newspaper pointed out that there were many different rumors circulating, but placed the blame for the disaster at the feet of the Citizens Alliance and Sheriff Cruse’s deputized gunthugs:
There was no fire anywhere and this fire alarm and the remarkable conduct of the deputies at the hall door was then, someone’s, or somebody’s invention to disturb the celebrations of those “undesirables,” possibly “unintentionally.”
The brutal conduct of the deputies as they beat back the crowd with clubs and fists was long remembered by the grieving strikers and their families. The intention of the man who cried fire, perhaps, was not to murder, but murder was, nonetheless, the result of the intentional disruption of the children’s party. The man who cried fire disappeared down the street and was never seen again.
SOURCE
Death’s Door
The Truth Behind Michigan’s Largest Mass Murder
-by Steve Lehto
MI, 2006
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