Hellraisers Journal: Gunthugs Shoot Up Mass Meeting at Huntington; Militia Jails Editors of Socialist and Labor Star

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Quote Mother Jones Buy Guns, Ptt Pst p1, Feb 14, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 9, 1913
Huntington, West Virginia – Gunthugs Shoot Up Meeting; Labor Editors Imprisoned

From The Wheeling Majority of May 8, 1913:

Wlg Maj Masthd p1, May 8, 1913HdLn Raid on Htg Lbr Str, Wlg Maj p1, May 8, 1913

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Quote Mother Jones Buy Guns, Ptt Pst p1, Feb 14, 1913
https://www.newspapers.com/image/87976779/

Wheeling Majority
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
-May 08, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1913-05-08/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1913-05-08/ed-1/seq-10/

See also:

From the Huntington Herald-Dispatch of May 9, 1913:
“Raid on The Socialist and Labor Star”
Note: According to this article those arrested were F. M. Sturm, W. H. Thompson, R. M. Kephart, George Gillespie, and Elmer Rumbaugh.
https://archive.wvculture.org/history/labor/socialist02.html

From the Huntington Advertiser of May 9, 1913:
“Raid on The Socialist and Labor Star”
https://archive.wvculture.org/history/labor/socialist03.html

Machinists’ Monthly Journal, Volume 25
-July 1913, p663
“West Virginia Civil War, Occurrences in Huntington”
-by Jack W. Holder
(search: huntington holder west virginia)
https://books.google.com/books?id=vO3NAAAAMAAJ

For more re Raid on Socialist and Labor Star:
https://archive.wvculture.org/history/thisdayinwvhistory/0509.html

Huntington WV Socialist and Labor Star
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059765/

Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals
A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars

-by David Alan Corbin
PM PressNov 2, 2011
Note: See Chapter X, page 214
“The History of the Socialist and Labor Star:
Huntington, W. Va. 1912-1915”
https://books.google.com/books?id=obdHEAAAQBAJ

Tag: Huntington Socialist and Labor Star
https://weneverforget.org/tag/huntington-socialist-and-labor-star/

Tag: West Virginia Court Martial of Mother Jones + 48 of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/west-virginia-court-martial-of-mother-jones-48-of-1913/

Tag: Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/paint-creek-cabin-creek-strike-of-1912-1913/

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They’ll Never Keep Us Down – Hazel Dickens