As long as the BOSS
Uses BOTH fists
And pays detectives to do it,
I don’t see the sense
Of TYING UP
One of OUR ARMS.
-Anise
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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday November 21, 1918
“Fighting with One Fist”-Poem by Anise
From The Ohio Socialist of November 20, 1918:
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SOURCE & IMAGE
The Ohio Socialist
“Official Organ of the Socialist Parties
of Ohio and Kentucky”
(Cleveland, Ohio)
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/043-nov-20-1918.pdf
IMAGE
Anna Louise Strong ab 1918, wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Louise_Strong
See also:
Strike: Seattle General Strike Project
“Politics of Gender in the Writings of Anna Louise Strong”
-by Rebecca B. Jackson
http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/jackson.shtml
…..Although she regularly contributed editorial articles and appeared as an advice columnist [for the Seattle Union Record], Anna Louise became famous throughout Seattle through her daily poems signed Anise. Her use of the pseudonym was never intended to disguise her true identity:
And Anise is short for Anna Louise Strong, recalled from the School Board, just in time to start work on a really interesting job as feature and magazine editor of the Union Record.
The Anise writings were formatted in an informal poetry style described as ragged verse. The format was not her original creation: Anna Louise borrowed the style from various religious and literary works. Furthermore, at the time, this form of writing was being used by the author known as K.C.B. who wrote for the Seattle Times. Mary Joan O’Connell argues that, despite mimicking the style of a writer published in a rival newspaper, Anna Louise was clearly responsible for popularizing the writing form through her near-daily poem. The Anise poem included in almost each days edition of the Union Record was unmistakably designed by its author to attract the eye of the reader, both in content and form…..
[Photograph added.]
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Seattle General Strike 1919 & Anna Louise Strong
“No One Knows” by Anna Louise Strong
http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/images/nooneknowswhere-big.jpg
Solidarity Forever – Utah Phillips