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Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 24, 1912
Los Angeles, California – Great Funeral Demonstration Held for FW Mikolasek
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of May 23, 1912:
GREAT FUNERAL DEMONSTRATION
FOR MIKOLASCK.(Special Telegram to the “Worker.”)
Los Angeles, Cal., May 13.-Fifteen hundred rebels were in line at the funeral of our brave fellow worker and comrade Joseph Mikelasck [Mikolasek], who was murdered by the San Diego police on the seventh inst. It was the greatest demonstration in the history of the city. The banner of the Industrial Workers of the World led the procession and the groups which followed carried red flags. Along the line of march the “Red Flag” and “Marseillaise” were sung. Parade traversed the business district and the police were forced to aid the parade by stopping traffic. The banners carried in the parade read:
“With the suppression of free speech our liberties are gone.”
“We are organized, not for riot and disorder, but for universal peace.”
“The defenders of liberty are jailed and murdered. The vigilantes go free.”
“He had nothing to give but his life, that he gave freely.”
“Our fellow worker who was murdered in the fight for free speech in San Diego.”
“Our silence in the grave will be more powerful than the voices you strangled today.”
Going along Hill Street the procession was joined by a body of Mexicans who threw down their tools in response to the cry of
“ONE BIG UNION FOR ALL”
J. J. McKELVEY.
[Emphasis added; newsclip added from Los Angeles Express of May 13, 1912.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote EGF, re Spk FSF, ISR p618, Jan 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MVhIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA618
Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-May 23, 1912, page 3
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v4n09-w165-may-23-1912-IW.pdf
See also:
Note: in this same issue of Industrial Worker, see:
-pages 1+ 4: “Mob Violence at San Diego” by Stanley M. Gue & Stumpy
-page 3: “Eye Witness Tells of Police Murder [of Mikolasek]”
-pages 2-4: several more stories re San Diego Free Speech Fight
Tag: Joseph Mikolasek
https://weneverforget.org/tag/joseph-mikolasek/
Tag: San Diego Free Speech Fight of 1912
https://weneverforget.org/tag/san-diego-free-speech-fight-of-1912/
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La marseillaise de la Commune – Monsieur Jack