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Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 19, 1911
Bruceville, Texas – Monument Unveiled at Grave of Martin Irons
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of May 17, 1911:
LABOR FEDERATION UNVEILS MONUMENT
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Memory of Late Martin Irons Honored
at Bruceville-Missouri Editor Speaks.WACO, May 17.-Addresses were heard at morning session of the [Texas] State Federation of Labor convention today, delivered by D. J. Bell of Bells, Grayson county: Secretary-Treasurer J. T. Smith of the Missouri State Federation of Labor, and others. Most of the delegates went to Bruceville today at noon, where a monument to the memory of the late Martin Irons was unveiled the address being delivered by E. T. Behrens, editor of the Liberator at Sedalia, Mo…..
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[Photograph and emphases added.]
Note: The monument was erected at the grave of Martin Irons on Labor Day, September 5, 1910. The dedication inscribed thereon reads:
Martin Irons, Oct 7, 1827-Nov 17, 1900
Leader Gould Southwest Railroad Strike 1886
Fearless Champion of Industrial Freedom
Erected by the Missouri State Federation of Labor
and Affiliated Unions
Labor Day Sept 5, 1910
1910 Labor Day Ceremony at Graveside Monument to Martin Irons
-photograph taken by Fred Gildersleeve:
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones re Martin Irons Sleeps, AtR p4, May 11 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67586866/
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
(Fort Worth, Texas)
-May 17, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/634042184
Source for dedication inscribed on monument
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7388829/martin-irons
https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2012/315/13987521_135268362671.jpg
IMAGES
Monument at Grave of Martin Irons
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=150677
-at Grave of Martin Irons, Labor Day by Fred Gildersleeve 1910, LOC
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012646759/
See also:
Tag: Martin Irons
https://weneverforget.org/tag/martin-irons/
The Liberator.
Publisher: Sedalia, Mo.: Sedalia Federation of Labor, 1910-1914.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/liberator/oclc/20842277/
Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Southwest_railroad_strike_of_1886
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“Song for the Knights of Labor” from “Iron & Gold”
-Opera by Mark Arnest
IRONS: We are the knights who ride as of old
Honest, courageous, sober and bold
With a wave of our lance
CHORUS: With a wave of our lance
IRONS: The fire of our glance,
CHORUS: The fire of our glance
IRONS: Capital trembles and schemers grow cold.
Let us press onward and raise up the standard of right!
Now is the moment to join in the fight.