Hellraisers Journal: Mexican Workers Strike and Petition Demanding Release of Ricardo Flores Magón from Leavenworth

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Quote Freedom Ricardo Flores Magon, ed, Speech re Prisoners of Texas, May 31, 1914—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday November 13, 1922
Vera Cruz, Mexico – Maritime Workers Strike for Release of Ricardo Flores Magón

From El Paso Herald of November 9, 1922:

Mexican Workers Strike for Release of RF Magon, El P Hld p1, Nov 9, 1922

VERA CRUZ, Mex., Nov. 9.—(By the Associated Press.)—Workers belonging to the maritime league were on strike here today in protest against the alleged unlawful imprisonment of Ricardo Flores Magon, former Mexican rebel leader in Leavenworth, Kan., prison.

Magon in 1917 was sentenced to 20 years for complicity in a communist plot in Los Angeles.

Want Release Of Radicals.

The workers made a demonstration before the American consulate and presented a petition for the release of Magon and other Mexicans imprisoned in the United States as dangerous radicals. A cable message embracing the protest and the petition was sent to the Mexican charge d’affaires in Washington. Other demonstrations were held in various Mexican gulf ports.

A boycott against American ships in Mexican ports is being considered and other measures also are threatened if the United States government refuses to liberate the Mexicans.

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Magon was arrested in Los Angeles after he had been trailed for several months by government operatives. In his possession at the time of arrest was found circulars and other propaganda issued with intent of creating a revolution in Mexico.

Ricardo Magon and a brother, Enrique were prominent in a revolution in Sonora in 1910 coincident with the Pascual Orozco uprising in the state of Chihuahua. The Magon brothers several times were charged with conspiring against the Diaz government.

Los Angeles was used principally as headquarters by the brothers and it is said, that many attempts to foment revolution began there.

[Emphasis added.]

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Freedom Ricardo Flores Magon,
-Speech re Prisoners of Texas, May 31, 1914
https://isreview.org/issue/101/intervention-and-prisoners-texas

El Paso Herald
(El Paso, Texas)
-Nov 9, 1922
https://www.newspapers.com/image/42578161/

The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magon