Hellraisers Journal: Miss Gurley Flynn, Dressed as Miner, Visits Mine with P. W. Flynn, President of Butte Miners’ Union

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Quote EGF, My Aim in Life, Spk Rv p7, July 8, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday July 26, 1909
Butte, Montana – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Visits Mine with P. W. Flynn

The following is a photograph of Miss Flynn and P. W. Flynn (on her left), President of the Butte Miners’ Union, Local No. 1 of the Western Federation of Miners. The photograph was taken June 16th during a visit to one of Butte’s many mining operations. Sadly, the others in the photograph remain unidentified to this date.

EGF, Butte Mine w PW Flynn, June 16, 1909, Rebel Girl p98

Miss Flynn describes the visit:

President Flynn and a committee…escorted me down into a mine. We donned miners’ caps and overalls to make the trip. The mine was so deep that the earth was actually hot. They also took me through a smelter, where a friendly worker ran an iron bar an inch or two into the molten copper and then cooled and hardened it [and gave it to her as a souvenir].

From The Butte Miner of September 6, 1908:

WFM Butte Miners Union, PW Flynn Prz Elect, Btt Mnr p8, Sept 6, 1908

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SOURCES & IMAGES

The Rebel Girl
by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
International Publishers, 1973
https://libcom.org/files/rebel-girl-autobiography.pdf
Photograph with P. W. Flynn, page 98
Description of visit to mine, page 101

Note: Help to identify others in photo would be greatly appreciated!

EGF w PW Flynn, Three Unkown, Butte Mine June 16, 1909, from Rebel Girl p98

The Butte Miner
(Butte, Montana)
-Sept 6, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/348540570/

See also:

EGF 1909
https://weneverforget.org/tag/egf-1909/

Re June 1909, EGF in Butte
Note: the following news items place EGF in Butte from June 12-June 17, possibly until about June 25th. By June 29th, she was in Spokane.

June 12, 1909, Butte Daily Post, p4
(The Butte Inter Mountain)
EGF to speak at Butte Miners Day
-PW Flynn , prz of Miners Union (WFM) to be Grand Marshall
https://www.newspapers.com/image/348809512/

June 14, 1909, Butte Daily Post, p1
(The Butte Inter Mountain)
-re EGF speech and parade for Butte Miners Day
https://www.newspapers.com/image/348809559/

June 16, 1909, The Butte Miner, p8
(The Butte Inter Mountain)
-EGF to speak Thurs (June 17) at Auditorium for Miners Union
https://www.newspapers.com/image/348539291/

June 25, 1909, The Missoulian p10
-EGF to speak in Burke ID on Sunday (June 28)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/349022912/

June 29, 1909, Spokane Spokesman Review, p7
-EGF to speak at IWW Hall Tues eve June 29th
https://www.newspapers.com/image/566223509/

July 1, 1909, Spokane Daily Chronicle, p14
-re EGF speech at IWW Hall on Tues (June 29)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/561533945/

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