Hellraisers Journal: “The Coal Camp” where “shacks are built in long straight rows.” -a Poem by Grace D. Brewer

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Quote Mother Jones, Last Great Battle, UMWC p420, Jan 26, 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday June 21, 1910
“The Coal Camp” – Grace D. Brewer of Girard, Kansas, Visits a Company Town

From the Miners Magazine of June 16, 1910:

POEM The Coal Camp by Grace Brewer, Mnrs Mag p11, June 16, 1910

Miners Magazine, Published by Western Federation of Miners
“Labor Produces All Wealth-Wealth Belongs to the Producer Thereof”

Miners Magazine Cover, WFM, June 16, 1910

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SOURCE & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Last Great Battle, UMWC p420, Jan 26, 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WyH1VOBn6BsC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA420

Miner’s Magazine
-June 3, 1909-Jan 19, 1911
Western Federation of Miners, 1911
https://books.google.com/books?id=hT8tAQAAMAAJ
Miner’s Magazine of June 16, 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hT8tAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA363-IA29
Page 11: “The Coal Camp”
-by Grace D Brewer of Girard, Kansas
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hT8tAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA363-IA39

See also:

George and Grace Brewer were Kansas Socialists
https://weneverforget.org/tag/george-brewer/
https://weneverforget.org/tag/grace-d-brewer/

Note: Grace’s visit to a coal camp could have been to near-by Pittsburg, Kansas, about 14 miles southeast of Girard. Pittsburg was the headquarters of United Mine Workers District 14.

Tag: Pittsburg KS
https://weneverforget.org/tag/pittsburg-ks/

For more on Industrial Feudalism, see:

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday June 15, 1920
Logan County, West Virginia – Bastion of Industrial Feudalism
Arthur Gleason on Industrial Feudalism in Logan County, W. V., “Company-Owned Americans”

Hellraisers Journal of May 30 & 31, 1920
Arthur Gleason on Logan County, West Virginia: “Private Ownership of Public Officials”
-Part I & -Part II

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Miner’s Life – Brian Connick of Cor Meibion Onllwyn
-with Onllwyn Male Voice Choir