Hellraisers Journal: Spokane’s IWW Agitators Bound for Fresno Free Speech Fight; Frank Little Speaks in Coalinga

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Quote Frank Little, Fresno Jails Dungeons, FMR p6, Sept 2, 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday October 6, 1910
Fresno, California – Spokane Fellow Workers on Way to Free Speech Fight

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of October 1, 1910:

IW MastHd, p1, Oct 1, 1910

CRTN re Fresno FSF, IW p1, Oct 1, 1910

SPOKANE MEMBERS BOUND FOR FRESNO.

A letter from one of the Spokane bunches of free speech agitators states that they expect to be in Portland part of the current week. All who are bound for Fresno should call at the I. W. W. headquarters along the road and inquire as to where the different forces are. It is suggested that there be no Fourth of July fireworks, but that everything be done quietly and as unostentatiously as possible. This, of course, until all is ready for action. There is nothing to be gained by the spread-eagle style. Saw wood until all is ready for action.

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From The Fresno Morning Republican of October 4, 1910:

I. W. W. AGITOR IN WRONG AT COALINGA
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Little Makes Speech at Socialist Meeting…
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COALINGA, Oct. 3.— F. H. Little, the I. W. W. member, who recently served a jail sentence in Fresno for disturbing the peace, made a speech in Coalinga, Friday evening, on Front street, and made an address at a Socialist meeting at the city hall here Sunday afternoon. The authorities have intervened against his speeches on the streets, and Little says he has wired Seattle for other members of the organization to come to Coalinga. Little has made the statement that he will speak on the street here again and in that case, it is expected that he will at once be placed under arrest, for ignoring the altitude of the authorities…

[Emphasis added.]

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Frank Little, Fresno Jails Dungeons, FMR p6, Sept 2, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/606951967/

Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-Oct 1, 1910, pages 1 & 2
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v2n28-w80-oct-01-1910-IW.pdf

The Fresno Morning Republican
(Fresno, Californie)
-Oct 4, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/606953253/

See also:

Tag: Fresno Free Speech Fight of 1910-1911
https://weneverforget.org/tag/fresno-free-speech-fight-of-1910-1911/

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