There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Friday May 24, 1907
Boise, Idaho – Big Bill Haywood Active in His Defense
From The Spokane Press of May 21, 1907:
From The New York Times of May 23, 1907:
HARD ON IDAHO JURYMEN.
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Farmers Must Go to Boise When Their
Land Needs Attention.BOISE, Idaho, May 22.-The Haywood trial is at a standstill to-day while sheriff “Shad” Hodgin and almost his entire force of deputies are in the county, summoning the extra venire of sixty men ordered yesterday, when the last special venire of 100 drawn for the case was exhausted. The Sheriff expects to report the completion of his task to-morrow morning and the trial will be resumed at 2 o’clock to-morrow afternoon.
Jury service will come as a severe hardship on the farmers and ranchers who are being called from their work in the field at the time of the year when irrigation ditches must be kept in order, and the ground carefully tended to insure the year’s crop….
From The Pensacola Journal of May 17, 1907:
From the Deseret Evening News of May 16, 1907:
SOURCES & IMAGES
The Spokane Press
(Spokane, Washington)
-May 21, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/201689521/
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-May 23, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20662880/
The Pensacola Journal
(Pensacola, Florida)
-May 17, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/80016340/
Deseret Evening News
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-May 16, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/73734881/
Tom Morello & Wobblies Sing Solidarity Forever