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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday July 28, 1901
San Francisco, California – Teamsters Strike on Waterfront Cripples City
From The San Francisco Call of July 23, 1901:
Hellraisers Journal: Charleston, W. V.-Federal Judge Jackson Grants Permanent Injunction Against Striking Miners
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday July 27, 1901
Charleston, West Virginia – Is Judge Jackson a bigger man than Mother Jones?
From West Virginia’s Shepherdstown Register of July 25, 1901:
John Jay Jackson Jr., Injunction Judge
At Charleston Tuesday Judge Jackson made perpetual a temporary injunction that he had granted restraining the striking coal miners in the Flat Top region [Pocahontas Coalfield] from interfering with the operation of the mines, and he held for the action of the grand jury certain miners who are said to have fired on United States officers. The Judge severely denounced the miners.
The United Mine Workers will get “Mother Jones” to come to West Virginia to help the cause of the strikers.
It will soon be demonstrated, however, that Judge Jackson is a bigger man than “Mother Jones.”
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Arrives in West Virginia to Assist Organizing Drive of the United Mine Workers of America
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday July 26, 1901
Morgantown, West Virginia – Mother Jones Arrives with U. M. W. Organizers
From the Baltimore Sun of July 24, 1901:
APPEALING TO MINERS
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“Mother” Jones Arrives In The West Virginia Field.
(Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.)
Morgantown, W. Va., July 23.-The organization known as the United Mine Workers of America will make a desperate effort this summer to bring all the West Virginia miners now outside of their organization into it.
Thomas Burker [Burke], Edward Cahill, John H. Walker and Mary Jones, known as “Mother” Jones, arrived from Indianapolis yesterday and will begin their work here……
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[Photograph and emphasis added.]
Hellraisers Journal: Judge Woods Is Dead, Sent Eugene Debs to Prison for Six Months in Connection with Pullman Strike of 1894
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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday July 25, 1901
Pullman’s Injunction Judge, William Woods, Is Dead
From the Social Democratic Herald of July 20, 1901:
Debs and Judge Woods
The death of Judge Wm. A. Woods of the United States circuit court naturally brings up a chain of thought which may be useful and instructive at this time. Woods was the judge who prostituted his high and exalted office to serve the railways and crush the laboring men who were struggling for enough of the products of their labor to keep their families from starving. He it was who sent Eugene Debs to prison [at Woodstock, Illinois] for six months [in 1895] without trial for “contempt” of his most contemptible court, simply because Debs opposed with manly firmness the usurpations of this judicial scoundrel. It was this same judge Woods who set free “Blocks of Five” Dudley and the other bribers and ballot-box stuffers at Indianapolis in 1880, and was promoted from the district to the circuit court by the republican administration for his rascality. In his charge to the jury Judge Woods said that “advising or counseling bribery is not punishable unless briery is committed.”
In the coming time when the co-operative commonwealth shall have been established, when each man shall receive the product of his toil and have time and leisure to think upon the various steps and acts which have led up to industrial emancipation, then these two men, Debs and Woods, will each be held in proper estimation by the world. Posterity alone can properly write epitaphs. The memory of Debs will then be revered as one willing to suffer for his fellow men, while Woods will rank with Judas Iscariot, Grover Cleveland and Benedict Arnold.
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All the robber elements of this country will pronounce encomiums upon Judge Woods, while they have and will continue to cast odium upon Debs. But posterity will pass just judgment upon these two men, and memory of Debs will be enshrined in glory, while that of Woods will be shrouded in eternal infamy.-Equality, Deadwood, S. D.
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[Photographs and emphasis added.]
Hellraisers Journal: From The Coming Nation: “Hunger and Cold” -Poem From Pen of James Russell Lowell
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Hellraisers Journal – Monday July 24, 1911
“Hunger and Cold” -a Poem by James Russell Lowell
From The Coming Nation of July 22, 1911:
Hellraisers Journal: Westmoreland County Coal Miners’ Strike Now Declared Off, Concludes Long Bitterly Fought Battle
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday July 23, 1911
Westmoreland County Miners Strike Declared Off
From the Duluth Labor World of July 22, 1911:
Hellraisers Journal: C. E. Lively Testifies Before Senate Committee, Joined United Mine Workers as Baldwin-Felts Spy
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday July 22, 1921
Washington, D. C. – C. E. Lively Testifies Before Senate Investigating Committee
From the Baltimore Sun of July 21, 1921:
Hellraisers Journal: From the Appeal to Reason: Socialist Are Reading “Merrie England” by Robert Blatchford
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday July 21, 1901
Merrie England by Robert Blatchford, “A Plain Exposition of Socialism”
From the Appeal to Reason of July 20, 1901:
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for June 1911, Part II: Found Pleading Cause of Striking Miners of Westmoreland County
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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday July 20, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for June 1911, Part II
Found Pleading Cause of Striking Miners of Westmoreland County
From The Indianapolis Star of June 28, 1911:
WOMAN PLEADS FOR MINERS
———-“MOTHER JONES TELLS TALE
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Describes Hardships of Pennsylvania Strikers,
but Urges Board to Encourage Men
to Continue Fight.
Following an address by “Mother” Jones, known to all miners of the country, members of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America yesterday adopted resolutions relative to the strike in the Irwin district in western Pennsylvania, where about 6 000 mine workers have been out for a year and a half.
Mrs. Jones, who is 79 years old, has spent most of her time in the strike region during the past year and is thoroughly familiar with conditions there. She told the members of the executive board of the hardships which the miners and their families have endured during the strike and urged the board to adopt resolutions commending the strikers and advising them to continue the fight.
Her address had the desired effect upon the members of the board, and a committee was appointed to draw up resolutions.
PLEDGES CONTINUED SPPORT.
The resolutions provide that the executive board indorse the strikers and urge them to continue their fight, and the board pledges its continued support to the miners. It is also provided that a general meeting be held in the region, at which a vote is to be taken to ascertain if a majority of the miners favor the continuance of the strike
The miners organization is spending about $90,000 a month to support the families of the strikers. It is said that the operators refuse to recognize the organization in the district and will not consider any compromise.
Francis Feehan president of the Pittsburg district and a number of organizers also appeared before the board yesterday to present their views on the strike.
“Mother” Jones expects to return to the Irwin district soon to continue her work among the families of the strikers.
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[Photograph added.]
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for June 1911, Part I: Reporting on Pittsburgh Protest Rally on Behalf of McNamara Brothers
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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday July 19, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for June 1911, Part I
Found with “Characteristic Style” at Rally on Behalf of McNamaras
From the Appeal to Reason of June 3, 1911:
Solidarity at Pittsburg.
[Mother Jones Speaks.]By Telegraph to APPEAL.
Pittsburg. Pa., May 27.-The most tremendous labor demonstration Pittsburg ever saw occurred tonight. Thirty thousand indignant working men and women marched through the principal streets in protest against the kidnaping of McNamara, congregated at west side and yelled themselves hoarse at every telling point made by the speakers. Hundreds of policemen guarded the streets in squads and mingled with the monster crowd.
Socialists, Industrial Workers and craft unionists were thoroughly united on this occasion and all made the very earth tremble with their yells of defiance. The spirit of solidarity prevailed as it has never been known to prevail before, and Pittsburg is alive to its power. The echo will be heard in the morning to the cell doors of the victims in Los Angeles and to every nook and corner of America. Capitalists will realize once again that they have to deal with an aroused and awakened class. The chant was started tonight by Comrade Debs that was used in the Moyer-Haywood case “If McNamara die, twenty million working men will know the reason why.”
The first speaker of the evening was Comrade Fred H. Merrick, who is under indictment for libeling a Judge here in Pittsburg. Debs followed, and not only described the McNamara case in detail, but also analyzed the Pennsylvania strike and reviewed the great strike of the Pennsylvania railroad employes. His force and eloquence inspired the multitude and something will drop if the enthusiasm of the crowd was an indication.
Mother Jones in characteristic style appealed to the assemblage to be men and stand together, both on the political and economic field. De Leon, of New York, also spoke.
GEORGE D. BREWER.
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[Photograph added.]