If that is frenzy, I plead guilty
and I notify the Globe
I shall not soon recover.
-Luella Twining
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday January 13, 1907
From the Appeal to Reason: New York Workers Aroused!
Luella Twining of Denver can now be found in New York City assisting in the organization of the defense movement for Comrades Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone by the working men and women of that city.
From the Appeal to Reason of January 12, 1907:
NEW YORK IS AROUSED
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Working Class of City Organizing
Powerful Defense Movement
for W.F.of M. Officials.
—–By Luella Twining.
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New York, Jan. 4.-New York workingmen and women are demonstrating the solidarity of the working class. The second meeting of the Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone conference, composed of all workers who want to save their brothers in Idaho, irrespective of race, color, creed or politics, was more enthusiastic even than the first. Many new delegates were seated. Among the unions represented were the District Council of the Carpenters and Joiners, Central Federated Union, Brewers, Bill Posters, Typographical Union, Tobacco Workers, Bakers and Confectionary, Cloak and Suit Tailors, Cigar Makers, Butchers, Hat and Cap Makers, Beer Drivers, Beer Bottlers, Painters and Decorators, Steam Fitters, Bricklayers, Machinists, United Hebrew Trades, Sick and Death Benefit and Waiters. All of these trades were represented by more than one local, most of them by three or four.
The financial secretary reported the receipt of $2,760.20 for the “Defense Fund,” and $1,500 for the “Agitation Fund.” While we are laying particular stress on the necessity of money to carry on the trial, still we are setting forth also the necessity for agitation. We shall hold many meetings to warn the workers of the murder that is being planned in Idaho. We shall also distribute tons of literature setting forth the facts. New York City shall be buried in papers and pamphlets. Everybody shall know of this conspiracy, planned in New York, in that magnificent stone building on Broadway, and to be executed in that desolate, isolated region of Idaho. We do not intend to wait till our brothers are in their graves for the working class to say: “We did not know, we thought they would have a fair trial.”
The unions visited show intense interest. Many of them are holding special meetings for the reason that their by-laws do not permit them to give more than a prescribed sum. For instance, the “Sheet and Metal Workers” gave the maximum amount at their regular meeting. They held a special meeting the next week and gave $500. No unions before which speakers have appeared have refused to assist. All have displayed the greatest enthusiasm and expressed their indignation in burning words at the foul conspiracy to break up organized labor, and all resistance to capitalistic encroachment. They realize that Standard Oil, successful in ridding themselves of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, would be like wild animals after having a taste of human blood, and thirsting for more. They know they would be the next victims.
The action of the Central Federated Union, in displaying such intense interest in the “Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone Conspiracy” was a hard blow for the prosecution. The Globe commented on it editorially, and said that the C. F. U. should not have allowed such statements to be made on its floor. They called me a “Maenad” (frenzied woman). I suppose that was for portraying the sufferings of Comrade Haywood’s invalid wife, also the agony she has endured during the long year in which her husband has been incarcerated in a cell, denied every right of an American citizen. If that is frenzy, I plead guilty and I notify the Globe I shall not soon recover. I am not alone. The C. F. U. all became “frenzied,” gave all they could and promised all moral support possible.
A delegate from the Typographical Union made a stirring speech, saying he was sure the A. F. of L. would assist the defense, that Gompers’ speech at the last convention, which was devoted mostly to the discussion of the Moyer, Haywood conspiracy, presaged a lively interest on the part of that body. He also pointed out the value of the endorsement of the C. F. U., as it has 200,000 members and wields a powerful influence in the city and state.
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[Photograph added.]
On the Upcoming “Kidnaping Anniversary Edition” of the Appeal:
Order Form:
Workers: “Show Your Hand!”
Protest from the United Mine Workers:
VOICE OF PROTEST.
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What Other Papers are Saying
about the Situation in Idaho
and Colorado.
—–[This edition of the Appeal printed statements from several newspapers regarding the recent decision by the U. S. Supreme Court which legalized state-sponsored kidnapping. We are particularly interested in the following comment from the official Journal of the United Mine Workers of America.]
A “State’s Rights” Decision.
It would even seem, according to this (Pettibone) decision, as if the state’s sovereignty were greater than that of the nation. It would look to the layman as if he owed his state the superior fealty. The broad ground of the decision is that “the method of extradition is not material.” It may be orderly and above board, or it may be mid-night kidnaping. It is all the same. The victim, being a citizen of the state primarily and a citizen of the United States only secondarily, cannot ask the United States to intervene. The states can shuffle him about as they please, without regard to his legal rights as an American citizen. Of course the decision is law, being promulgated by the supreme authority of the land. But it will be more popular South than North, and it will not be popular at all among laboring men. We fancy it would make Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster gasp and stare.-United Mine Workers’ Journal.
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SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Jan 12, 1907
Twining
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67586792/
Page One Articles (Source & Images)
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Voice of Protest
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67586790
IMAGE
Luella Twining
http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2014/09/chapter-22-just-work-work-work-part-3.html
See also:
Maenad [Raving One]
Furious Maenad, wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maenad
Note: We also met Luella Twining in July 1905, in Chicago, at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World:
Hellraisers Journal: At Brand’s Hall: Industrial Workers of the World Celebrated & Ratified
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/8/1400326/-Hellraisers-Journal-At-Brand-s-Hall-Industrial-Workers-of-the-World-Celebrated-Ratified
Hellraisers Journal: U. S. Supreme Court Rules Against Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone in Habeas Corpus Cases
https://weneverforget.org/hellraisers-journal-u-s-supreme-court-rules-against-moyer-haywood-and-pettibone-in-habeas-corpus-cases/
From the American Federation Convention of 1906:
Nov 12-24, 1906 Minneapolis
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=OyQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PR1
Gompers Report to Convention Delivered Nov 12th
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=OyQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA11
Re Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case: “AN OUTRAGE— A TRAVESTY OF THE LAW.”
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=OyQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA37
And reprinted in the American Federationist of December 1906
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=I55HAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA986
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