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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday August 27, 1913
Michigan Copper Country – John Walker and John Mitchell Speak to Strikers
From The Calumet News of August 23, 1913:
Note: John Walker reported that the military presence in Michigan’s Copper Country is brutal, and that General Abbey’s troops are acting as:
scab herders, strike-breakers, and black-leg protectors..[who] have shot people in the back, browbeaten men and women, insulted women and girls, and after filling up on beer and whisky sent them by the mine owners, swaggered up and down the streets with their big guns and sabers, a disgrace to the rottenest government on earth, let alone ours……
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Miners’ Bulletin p1, Aug 14, 1913
-Copy in possession of Janet Raye
The Calumet News
(Calumet, Michigan)
-Aug 23, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086633/1913-08-23/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086633/1913-08-23/ed-1/seq-2/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086633/1913-08-23/ed-1/seq-6/
Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine, Volume 55
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman, 1913
-Oct 1913, p547-550
“Michigan Copper Miners’ Strike”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015075057045&seq=651
-p549: Report of John H. Walker:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015075057045&seq=653
See also:
The Living Church, Volume 50
New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, 1913
-Feb 21, 1914, p595
“The Strike in the Copper Country of Northern Michigan”
-by John Mitchell
https://books.google.com/books?id=jsGBzfOESLQC&pg=PA595&dq=%22john+mitchell%22+1913+michigan+strike&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBuePXsYeBAxXbk2oFHTE6CrIQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=%22john%20mitchell%22%201913%20michigan%20strike&f=false
Tag: Michigan Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/michigan-copper-country-strike-of-1913-1914/
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Hellraisers Journal: John H. Walker and John Mitchell Enter the Strike Zone of Michigan’s Copper Country