Hellraisers Journal: Mesabi Range Strike: Deputy Sheriff and Soft Drink Vendor Killed in Battle at Striker’s Home

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There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Friday July 7, 1916
Biwabik, Minnesota – Strikers and Striker’s Wife Arrested

From the July 1st edition of The Duluth News Tribune:

MN Miners Strike-give 'em the boot cartoon, DNT, July 1, 1916

From News Tribune of July 4, 1916:

MN Miners, Headline-2 Killed in Biwabik, DNT, July 4, 1916

MN Miners, 2 Killed in Biwabik, DNT, July 4, 1916

The confrontation took place at the home of striking iron miner, Philip Marsonovich [also known as Nick Masonovich], who was arrested along with strikers Joe Orlandich, Joe Cernogor and Joe Meekech. The men are being held in the Virginia city jail, except for Meekech who is hospitalized for gunshots in the thigh. Mrs. Marsonovich was also arrested and will be charged with murder.

That same edition of the News Tribune further reported:

Carlo Tresca and Joseph Gilday, two of the ring leaders of the I. W. W. gang, who have been engineering a large part of the deviltry of the range, which has developed death and woe, widowed wives and orphaned children, were arrested shortly before 3 o’clock this morning in a hotel at Virginia.

From The Duluth News Tribune of July 6, 1916:

MN Miners Strike, Get Out IWW, Cartoon, DNT, July 6, 1916


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SOURCE & Images
The Duluth News Tribune
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-July 1, 1916, page 1
-July 4, 1916, page 1
-July 6, 1916, page 1
(Search: MN, Duluth with “miners strike” for more
on this strike.)
http://www.genealogybank.com

See also:
The Rebel Girl:
-an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926)

-by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
International Publishers, 1973
“Blood on the Range,” page 207
-for spelling: Masonovich, also the spelling which
brings the most return in searches.
https://books.google.com/books?id=TK2y0I-E9EkC

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