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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday August 29, 1920
United Mine Workers to Honor Fannie Sellins and Joe Starzeleski
From The Pittsburgh Post of August 26, 1920:
Memorial Planned
—–Organized Labor to Honor
Mrs. Sellins and Strezleski.
Organized labor in the Allegheny valley is planning to observe the first anniversary of the deaths of Mrs. Fannie Sellins, organizer for the United Mine Workers of America, and John Strezloski, a miner, which occurred August 26, 1919, during a battle between strikers and deputies at the mine of the Allegheny Coal Company in West Natrona, by the dedication of a granite monument in New Kensington, Monday, September 6, it was announced yesterday by J. H. Munn of Tarentum, president of the Allegheny Valley Trades Council.
The dedication of the memorial will be preceded by a parade in which more than 8,000 workers from various Western Pennsylvania towns are expected to march. The monument, which cost more than $2,500, was bought by members of the United Mine Workers of America throughout the United States.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote M. Robbins, for Fannie Sellins, Wkrs Wld p4, Nov 28, 1919
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/workersworld/WW35.pdf
The Pittsburgh Post
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
-Aug 26, 1920
https://www.newspapers.com/image/86502148/
IMAGE
Fannie Sellins in Jail, Hgtn WV Lbr Str p1, May 22, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059765/1914-05-22/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
WE NEVER FORGET
Fannie Sellins & Joe Starzeleski
Who Lost Their Lives in Freedom’s Cause
August 26, 1919 at West Natrona, Pennsylvania
Tag: Fannie Sellins
https://weneverforget.org/tag/fannie-sellins/
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The Red Flag – Socialist Victory Choir
Lyrics by Jim Connell, 1889