Hellraisers Journal: The Lumberjack: Brotherhood of Timber Workers in Battle Against Peonage in Merryville, Louisiana

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Quote BBH re Industrial Freedom BTW LA, ISR p , Aug 1912—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday January 22, 1913
Merryville, Louisiana – B. T. W. (I. W. W.) Battles Peonage

From the Alexandria Lumberjack (Louisiana) of January 16, 1913:

BTW IWW v Peonage, Lumberjack p1, Jan 16, 1913

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re Merryville BTW IWW Strike by V St John, Lumberjack p1, Jan 16, 1913

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote BBH re Industrial Freedom BTW LA, ISR p , Aug 1912
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v13n02-aug-1912-ISR-gog-ocr.pdf

The Lumberjack
(Alexandria, Louisiana)
-Jan 16, 1913, page 1
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/lumberjack/No.02.pdf
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064459/1913-01-16/ed-1/

See also:

Jan 9, 1913, The Lumberjack, page 1
“The Strike at Merryville”
“Peonage at Merryville”
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/lumberjack/No.01.pdf
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064459/1913-01-09/ed-1/

Jan 16, 1913, The Lumberjack
-page 1:
“Strike News from the Peonity of Merryville”
-page 3:
“Kidnapping and Justice in Merryville”
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/lumberjack/No.02.pdf

Louisiana and Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_and_Texas_Lumber_War_of_1911%E2%80%931912

Brotherhood of Timber Workers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Timber_Workers

William Covington Hall (1871– 1952)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington_Hall

The Lumberjack/Voice of the People, 1913-1914
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/lumberjack/index.htm

Tag: Covington Hall
https://weneverforget.org/tag/covington-hall/

Tag: Brotherhood of Timber Workers
https://weneverforget.org/tag/brotherhood-of-timber-workers/

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Songs of Love and Rebellion 
by Covington Hall
New Orleans, Louisiana, 1915
Note: Could find no tune designated for this song,
but The Red Flag works.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_Love_and_Rebellion

 

The Strike

Say what ye will, ye owls of night,
The strike upholds the cause of right;
The strike compels the king to pause,
The statesmen to remould the laws.

Say what ye will, yet, without ruth,
The strike drives home the bitter truth;
The strike tears off the mask of things,
To mass and class the issue brings.

Say what ye will, the strike is good:
It clears things long misunderstood:
It jolts the social mind awake:
It forces men a stand to take.

Say what ye will, all else above,
The strike is war for bread and love;
For raiment, shelter, freedom, all
The human race can justice call.

The Red Flag – Monsieur Jack
Lyrics by Jim Connell