Hellraisers Journal: Hannah Silverman, “The Firebrand” of the Paterson Silk Strike, Receives Stern Warning from Judge Klenert

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Hellraisers Journal – Friday June 27, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – Hannah Silverman Threatened by Judge Klenert

From The New York Times of June 21, 1913:

Hannah Silverman, Paterson Firebrand, NY Tb p4, June 8, 1913

The thirty-one strikers who were convicted of unlawful assemblage a few weeks ago appeared before Judge Klenert to-day. Each was sentenced to three months in the County Jail at hard labor, and then sentence was suspended during good behavior. Judge Klenert advised each of the defendants that he was at liberty to leave the country if he did not like its laws. When the case of Hannah Silvermann, the seventeen-year-old girl, who was styled the Joan d’Arc of the silk strike by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, was called, Judge Klenert addressed her separately, advising her that her conduct had caused great sorrow to her parents. Because of her youth, he said, he would excuse her this time. If she offended again, the Judge warned her, she would be sent to the State Home for Girls at Trenton.

[Photograph and emphasis added.]

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SOURCES

Quote:
“Vivas To Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913”
-by Martín Espada
(scroll down to “The Little Agitator”)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58738/vivas-to-those-who-have-failed-the-paterson-silk-strike-1913

The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-June 21, 1913
https://www.newspapers.com/image/26038303/

IMAGE
Hannah Silverman, Paterson Firebrand, NY Tb p4, June 8, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1913-06-08/ed-1/seq-4/

See also:

Hannah Silverman, El Paso Herald of June 28, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1913-06-28/ed-1/seq-30/

Hannah Silverman, El P Hld p 30, June 28, 1913

New Jersey’s Remarkable Women
Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

-by Lynn WenzelCarol Binkowski
Rowman & LittlefieldJul 1, 2016
-page 167: Hannah Silverman
https://books.google.com/books?id=3YDkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=%22greatest+little+iww+woman+in+america%22&source=bl&ots=WZoEkFa6bt&sig=ACfU3U1TlZDNC4l8Jj7ppY68lk1-YnsruQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4oNW2-fT_AhWLlWoFHfa_BHg4ChDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=%22greatest%20little%20iww%20woman%20in%20america%22&f=false

Search with hannah silverman may june 1913:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?dateFilterType=range&date1=05%2F01%2F1913&date2=06%2F30%2F1913&language=&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=hannah+silverman&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=50&searchType=advanced&sort=date#tab=tab_advanced_search

Search with hannah silverman pageant june 6-8:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?dateFilterType=range&date1=06%2F05%2F1913&date2=06%2F10%2F1913&language=&ortext=&andtext=pageant&phrasetext=hannah+silverman&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced&sort=date

Martín Espada (born 1957)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Espada

Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems
-by Martín Espada
W. W. Norton & CompanyJan 4, 2016
https://books.google.com/books?id=l_Z1CQAAQBAJ

The Fragile Bridge
Paterson Silk Strike, 1913
-by Steve Golin
Temple University Press, 1988
(search: “hannah silverman”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=GMwfv9NDBI4C

Tag: Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/paterson-silk-strike-of-1913/

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