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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday October 2, 1909
New Castle, Pennsylvania – Socialists Flying Squadron and Free Press
From the International Socialist Review of October 1909:
—–“THE FLYING SQUADRON” of the Socialist Party of New Castle, Pa., is one of the best disciplined and the most progressive group of revolutionists in the state. About a year ago the idea struck them to start a weekly paper. This was done. No one had any great amount of money to put into it—there were no millionaire socialists in the local—but the paper has been carried through and The Free Press, which is published bi-weekly, is self-supporting.
Here is their plan: They get out a regular edition of 10,000 copies, eight small pages, and guarantee to place one copy in every home in New Castle every issue. Advertising sells for $1 an inch, $25 a page, so it can be seen that The Free Press is no little affair. The local owns its own press and does job work in connection.
Were it not for the fact that “The Flying Squadron,” which is composed of about 75 real red comrades, who line up every issue, get their bundles, and distribute them from house to house, the great work they are doing would not be possible. The accompanying photograph, which was taken by Alderman Crabill, who is a socialist, does not contain all the “Flying Squadron.” The others were driven out of town on account of the tin mill strike which is still in progress.
In this connection it is well to note that these Socialist Party men are industrial unionists, too. Not the kind that say: “Yes, yes, I believe in it,” and so on, and then refuse to stand for the organization that represents it, but they are I. W. W. men. The Socialist Party men and the I. W. W. work in harmony in New Castle. The Free Press has come out for the I. W. W. very forcibly. Revolutionists may well keep an eye on the New Castle bunch.
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCE AND IMAGE
Quote Mother Jones, We Will Rest, UMWC Jan 27, 1909
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=dyhRAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA380
The International Socialist Review, Volume 10
(Chicago, Illinois)
C. H. Kerr & Company,
https://books.google.com/books?id=MVhIAAAAYAAJ
ISR-Oct 1909
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MVhIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA289
“Socialists Who Work”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MVhIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA374
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Sunday August 8, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1909, Part I:
-Found Speaking to Tin Workers in New Castle, Pennsylvania
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