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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 8, 1911
Kansas City, Missouri – Twenty-Four Fellow Workers Released from Leeds Farm
From The Kansas City Times of November 6, 1911:
THE I. W. W. SAY GOOD-BY.
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A Few of the Street Speakers Who
Remain Here Have Gone to Work.
Most of the twenty-four members of the Industrial Workers of the World who were paroled last Wednesday from the Leeds Farm have left the city for warmer climes. A few have obtained work in the city and say they will remain here until another free speech fight calls them away.
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SOURCES
Quote EGF, re Spk FSF, ISR p618, Jan 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MVhIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA618
The Kansas City Times
(Kansas City, Missouri)
-Nov 6, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/653697047/
IMAGE
KC FSF, Telegram re FL Arrested, Oct 14, IW p1, Oct 19, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v3n30-w134-oct-19-1911-IW.pdf
See also:
Tag: Kansas City Free Speech Fight of 1911
https://weneverforget.org/tag/kansas-city-free-speech-fight-of-1911/
Fellow Workers and Friends
I.W.W. Free Speech Fights as Told by Participants
-ed by Philip S. Foner
Greenwood Press, 1981
-page 178
https://books.google.com/books?id=y4yxAAAAIAAJ
Frank Little and the IWW
The Blood That Stained an American Family
-by Jane Little Botkin
University of Oklahoma Press, May 25, 2017
-pages 177-182
https://books.google.com/books?id=gBskDwAAQBAJ
Note: see pages 182-84:
On a mild Halloween day, the board of Public Welfare examined Frank, questioning his consent to being paroled. Would he leave Kansas City? Satisfied with his assurancs, a board representative released Frank [from Leeds Farm] to the city where Police Chief Griffin formally approved Frank’s parole on Wednesday, November 1, 1911. Early the next morning Frank received his washed clothes. Had he been a typical prisoner, he would have also received a small cash stipend, but IWWs were not normal prisoners. Instead, twenty scruffy prisoners were escorted to Kansas City where a celebratory feast at IWW headquareters awaited them…
About November 3, 1911, Frank left town, but he did not return to Fresno or Chicago…Frank went home to Oklahoma’s familiar red dirt and his mother, Almira. Frnk was sick. [Botkin further informs that Frank was likely suffering from a chronic bronchial infection or pneumonia and that he stayed with his mother in Guthrie for about two months.]
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