There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday August 8, 1916
San Francisco, California: Attempt to Connect Bombing to I. W. W.
From the Reno Evening Gazette of August 4, 1916:
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.-That Thomas J. Mooney, one of the men indicted for murder in connection with the preparedness parade bomb explosion on July 22, planned to inaugurate a reign of terror in San Francisco by importing “direct action reds” from other cities, was the declaration of District Attorney C. M. Fickert, in making public today of the correspondence discovered by the police in Mooney’s desk. Mooney kept carbon copies of his letters.
“Direct Action Reds”
One, addressed to an executive officer named Acker, of the international organization of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago said:
“I mean to get in immediate touch with 15 or 20 direct action reds-good, vigorous reds.”
A letter to William D. Haywood, national secretary of the I. W. W., asked for “hot blooded men” to come to San Francisco to join various unions and foment trouble, to start mutinies against the heads of the unions they joined and in every way possible to cause discontent…
SOURCE
Reno Evening Gazette
(Reno, Nevada)
-Aug 4, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/147491349
IMAGES
Tom Mooney, Wife, Billings, Weinberg, Reno Gz Jr, Aug 4, 1916
& text
https://www.newspapers.com/image/147491349
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Note: Not sure who “Acker” refers to. A search of the following source with “Acker” returns no results. Search of the source with “General Executive Board” did not return results of any names similar to “Acker.”
IWW Convention of Nov/Dec 1916
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=gjI4AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA3
The 1916 IWW-GEB-before the close of the convention, list may not be complete. Source shows those present at meetings: Little, Mattingly, Miller, Haywood, Flynn, Ettor Pancner.
Preparedness Day Bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_Day_Bombing
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The Popular Wobbly – The Grand Industrial Band