Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 16, 1912 Little Falls, New York – Strikers Seek Protection; Insanity Case Fails Against Nurse
From the Grant County Socialist (Medford, Oklahoma) of December 14, 1912:
STRIKERS APPEAL TO GOV. DIX FOR STATE MILITIA ———- Only Resort Little Falls Workers Can See ———- Bosses Would Establish Case of Insanity to Incarcerate Helen Schloss. ———-
Binghamton Press and Leader (New York) December 5, 1912
Little Falls, N. Y., Dec. 6.-“Send the State militia to Little Falls!” is the appeal to Governor Dix that the striking textile workers of this city sent out today.
This is the only avenue of escape from the inhuman and brutal persecution of the local police and the company’s hired thugs that the strikers think they have left.
The strike is now in its eighth week, and the solidarity of the workers is second only to that demonstrated by the 22,000 textile workers in the historic Lawrence strike. There’s nothing that can break the united spirit of the men and women and children that are fighting for bread except the atrocious activities of the hirelings of the mill owners. It is their high-handed methods in stifling the rebellious spirit of the workers that have driven the strikers to appeal for the state militia.
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How Miss Schloss Was Hounded
Helen Schloss, the city nurse, who, after seeing the condition of the strikers, decided to give up her position in order to be better able to help the strikers, today told the story of how the special police persecuted her in an effort to discourage her activities in the strike.
Not being able to persuade her to withdraw from the strikers’ ranks, they determined to find out some way of getting her out of the way, at least till the strike is over. Without knowing anything Miss Schloss was subjected to an examination of her state of mind by 3 local physicians. For two long hours they questioned her in a manner that would put the much heard of third degree to shame. All this in an effort to establish the fact of her insanity.
Miss Schloss, however, stood the test, and at times it looked as if the doctors who investigated her mental status were not er rational themselves. They finally gave up the job in disgust.
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