Hellraisers Journal: The Leavenworth Post: “Haywood Flees to Russia to Escape Prison” -Left from New York April 1st

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Quote BBH re Capitalist Class, Lbr Arg p4, Mar 23, 1911———-

Hellraisers Journal – Friday April 22, 1921
Chicago, Illinois – Federal Officials Confirm Haywood is in Russia

From The Leavenworth Post of April 21, 1921:

BBH Flees to Russia, Lv Pst p1, Apr 21, 1921

(By The Associated Press.)

BBH in Boise Cell 1907 ed, Lv Pst p1, Apr 21, 1921

Chicago, April 21.-Federal officials today received confidential information that William D. Haywood, secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World who was scheduled to begin a sentence at United States penitentiary, at Leavenworth this week, had fled from the United States and now is in either Moscow or Riga.

Attorney Admits Departure.

Otto Christensen, attorney for Haywood, said he had been informed that Haywood sailed from New York on the Oscar Second about April 1, and landed at Riga about April 16. He said he thought Haywood had gone to Russia on a personal mission and was not fleeing from the penitentiary sentence.

Authorities Start Search.

Charles F. Clyne, United States district attorney announced that search had been started for Haywood.

“He is not at Leavenworth, Chicago, nor New York, and we have private information that he has landed either at Moscow or Riga,” said Clyne.

“That is all we know about it but we expect to have definite information very quickly.”

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Hellraisers Journal: William Stanley, IWW Rebel, Is Dead-Led 80 Men Against Army of 500 Mexican Soldiers

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Quote Ricardo Flores Magon, Nothing But Death, AtR p2, May 29, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Friday April 21, 1911
Calexico, California – Stanley Dies of Wounds Received Fighting Tyrant Diaz

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of April 20, 1911:

Stanley Dead.

William Stanley crpd, Regeneracion p1, Apr 15, 1911

Captain Stanley, a member of the I. W. W., a Spokane Free Speech fighter, a deserter from the United States army, and a rebel against the rule of the despot Diaz, has been shot to death. He was killed while leading his 80 men against an army of 500 Mexican soldiers armed with machine guns. Had it not been for the rapid-fire machine guns the 500 federal soldiers would have been put to route. Stanley has left a heritage to his relations and to his union. He lived and died a man battling for freedom. He has gone where thousands of others have gone who have dared to “beard the lion in his den.”

To desert the army that is used for the express purpose of defending the private interests of a lot of multi-millionaires, was an honorable act. To join an army that was fighting for the right to live on nature’s soil was creditable. To die an I. W. W. man was proof of the recognition of the class struggle and that the interest of one worker was the interest of all workers. When enough workers can say that they would follow in the footsteps of William Stanley, it would be to say that the days of murdering each other would be over and a brighter day ushered in for the toiling millions. We doff our hat to our dead fighter and to all the workers who were with him in his memorable charge of the brave 80 reds.

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DIED FOR LIBERTY
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WM. STANLEY COMMANDER OF THE REDS,
DIES FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY.

Imperial, Cal., April 10th, 1911.

General William Stanley, commander-in-work in the  shape of extending the I. W. W. victorious over great odds, but when the recent battle was over he was brought across the line to Calexico to die. He is said to have been almost shot to pieces. He was one of the Spokane prisoners, one of the first six who went from Brawley to Spokane. Afterward he was for a while secretary of the Imperial branch. A noble, true fellow he was, brave and sincere as a revolutionists, genial and generous as a friend. He had but lately been commissioned as a general, having won fame while a captain, so mush so that the tyrant Diaz set a high price on his head.

Our fellow worker and fellow soldier is at rest, but like John Brown, “his soul goes marching on.”

E. B. BOND (Rebel).

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[Photograph and emphasis added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: International Socialist Review: How Solidarity Won the Fresno Free Speech Fight -by Press Committee

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Quote John Whyte, re Fresno Aroused Working Class, IW p1, Dec 22, 1910—————-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday April 20, 1911
News from California – “Solidarity Wins in Fresno” by Press Committee

From the International Socialist Review of April 1911:

Fresno FSF, Solidarity Wins, ISR p634, Apr 1911

BECAUSE we tried to organize the workers in Fresno, the authorities denied us the streets for agitation meetings. After persecuting our members for their activity; after throwing them into jail and subjecting them to the greatest brutality and passing a city ordinance denying the rights of free speech, the authorities have turned around and granted us all these things for which we have been fighting. Hereafter we shall be permitted to speak on the streets unmolested and unrestricted.

Fresno FSF, IWW Wins Complete Victory, IW p1, Mar 9, 1911
Spokane Industrial Worker of March 9, 1911

How was this victory accomplished? The answer is simple. Two hundred workingmen, roused by acts of violence against the organization of which they were members, moved on to Fresno from various points on the Pacific Coast to fight the Capitalist enemies. They realized that if our organizers were not to be permitted to speak and agitate, they would be seriously hampered in the work of organization for the great approaching conflict. From first to last both sides of the struggle clearly recognized Class Lines and freely admitted them. One of the most intelligent members of the opposition stated in an early stage of the struggle that this was a skirmish in a great war.

Antiquated methods were generally abandoned. It was decided that no money should be wasted on lawyers to expound the meaning of the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. However, the court was used effectively for propaganda. Trial after trial was held and each time our position was presented to a crowded court room, by some member of the group on trial. Incidentally about 500 residents of Fresno, chiefly business men, were summoned to serve on juries. Not one of these was so disloyal to his class as to “hang a jury.” Workingmen were promptly challenged by the prosecuting attorney. They might not have been so pliable.

The antagonism with the local press with its malicious misrepresentation, perfectly reflected the attitude of the employing class in Fresno. But our appeals for aid, made only to the working class, found a ready response. Perfect discipline was maintained inside the jail. Things were kept in a sanitary condition. Educational work was carried on systematically. The fight was directed throughout by the men in jail. The outside work was executed by an outside committee, also directed by the imprisoned men. Funds contributed were spent economically and to the best advantage.

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Hellraisers Journal: Capitalist Owns the Machinery of Production and Won’t Let You Forget It -Cartoon by Art Young

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Quote EVD, Starve Quietly, Phl GS Speech IA, Mar 19, 1910—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday April 19, 1911
“The rich man will do anything for the poor man but get off his back.”

From The Coming Nation of April 15, 1911:

Capital Owns Means on Labors Back, Art Young, Cmg Ntn p16, Apr 15, 1911

[Detail:]

Capital Owns Means on Labors Back detail, Art Young, Cmg Ntn p16, Apr 15, 1911

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Hellraisers Journal: Washington State Supreme Court Rules Against Centralia IWWs Who Defended Their Union Hall

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Quote Wesley Everest, Died for my class. Chaplin Part 15—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday April 18, 1921
Olympia, Washington – State Supreme Court Rules Against Centralia Defendants

From Oregon’s La Grande Evening Observer of April 14, 1921:

I. W. W. MUST SERVE TERM
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OLYMPIA, Wash., Apr. 14.-The state supreme court today upheld the conviction of seven of the alleged I. W. W. members convicted of second degree murder in connection with the Centralia armistice day killings. The court refused to grant a new trial. the men will be transferred from the Montesano county jail to the state prison to begin serving their sentence of from twenty-five to forty years.

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Centralia Trial, IWW Convicted, Spk Chc p1, Feb 7, 1920 Names WA Sp Crt p 407

[Emphasis and photograph added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for March 1911: Found in Denver, Colorado, Standing for Freedom of Sixteen Jailed Miners

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Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege ed, Ab Chp III———–

Hellraisers Journal – Monday April 17, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for March 1911:
–Found in Denver Fighting for Sixteen Miners Jailed by Judge Whitford

From the Black Hills Daily Register of March 6, 1911:

Accuses Judge of Bribery
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(By Pan-American Press.)

CO Miners in Dnv Co Jail by Jdg Whitford, ISR p525, Mar 1911
Sixteen miners freed from jail with assistance of Mother Jones.
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Denver, March 6.-The impeachment investigation against Judge Greeley W. Whitford, which is being conducted by a committee of the Colorado house of representatives, took a most sensational turn when the committee was told by Mrs. Margaret Miller that prior to his sentencing sixteen union men to jail a few mouths ago, she had delivered a package to Whitford which, she alleged, contained $3,000.

Mrs. Miller said she had been on terms of close relationship with Whitford for eight years. She testified that during the Cripple Creek mining troubles she was in the employ of the Mine Owners’ Association. She alleges a man associated with her in those troubles, gave her the money to give to Judge Whitford.

The sixteen miner were released from jail recently by Judge Whitford after serving two months of their sentence.

Union labor organizations all over the state of Colorado united in petitioning for Judge Whitford’s removal from the bench, declaring that the court in sentencing the miners, had found them guilty of a criminal charge without giving them the right of trial by jury. “Mother Jones” played an important part in the freeing of the men by holding immense meetings in all the large cities of the state.

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[Photograph added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Coming Nation: Artist John Sloan: The Real Triangle of Death=Rent, Profit, & Interest

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Rose Schneiderman Quote, Life So Cheap, NY Met Opera Hse, Apr 2, Survey p84, Apr 8, 1911—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday April 16, 1911
Artist John Sloan: The Real Triangle of Death=Rent, Profit, & Interest

From The Coming Nation of April 15, 1911:

The Triangle Fire

The Real Triangle by John Sloan, Cmg Ntn p15, Apr 15, 1911

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Hellraisers Journal: “Crimes of Carnegie, Protest Against Condoning Crime in the Name of Philanthropy” -Eugene Debs

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Hellraisers Journal – Monday April 15, 1901
Eugene Debs on the Philanthropy of Carnegie, The Bloody Benefactor

From the Missouri Socialist of April 13, 1901:

EVD HdLn Crimes of Carnegie, MO Sc p2, Apr 13, 1901

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Homestead Strike, Harpers Weekly, July 16, 1892

Many thousands of misguided people are applauding the alleged philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie, and of these by far the larger number are workingmen. Manifestly they have forgotten, or they have never heard of the horrors of Homestead—or perhaps they are too ignorant to understand or too cowardly to profit by the bloody lesson.

The reckless prodigality of Carnegie with the plunder of his victims brings into boldest prominence the crimes he committed when they protested against his monstrous rapacity. Then what? An army of 300 Pinkerton mercenaries were hired by this bloody benefactor to kill the men whose labor had made him a millionaire. He did not have the courage to execute his own murderous designs so he commissioned another monster, Frick, by name, with bloodless veins and a heart of steel, to commit the crimes while he went to Europe and held high carnival with the titled snobs there until the ghastly work was done. It was one of the foulest conspiracies ever concocted against the working class and the very thought of its atrocities, after nearly 10 years, fires the blood and crimsons the cheek with righteous indignation. Not only were the Pinkerton murderers hired by Carnegie to kill his employees, but he had his steel works surrounded by wires charged with deadly electric currents and by pipes filled with boiling water, so that in the event of a strike or lockout he could shock the life out of their wretched bodies or scald the flesh from their miserable bones.

And this is the man who proposes to erect libraries for the benefit of the working class—and, incidentally for the glory of Carnegie.

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Hellraisers Journal: U. S. Supreme Court Rules Against William D. Haywood and 79 Fellow Workers Convicted at Chicago

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Quote BBH IWW w Drops of Blood, Sept Oct 1919———-

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday April 13, 1921
Washington, District of Columbia – U. S. Supreme Court Rules Against Haywood

From The Leavenworth Post of April 11, 1921:

DECISION IS AGAINST WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD
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Supreme Court Refuses to Review
Conviction of Industrial Leader.
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79 OTHERS TO COME BACK.
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(By the Associated Press.)

BBH William Haywood 13106, Leavenworth Pen, Sept 1918

Washington Apr. 11.-The supreme court today refused to review the conviction of William D. Haywood and seventy-nine more members of the I. W. W. on charge of having conspired to obstruct war activities of the government.

Then refusal of the supreme court to interfere closed the long fight to save Haywood and his associates from prison only a presidential pardon can now prevent their sentences from being imposed.

Evidence Was Questioned 

The petition for the review was based on the contention that the federal agents conducting the raids on houses and offices of the official of the I. W. W. on September 5, 1917 acted without search warrants and evidence obtained was illegal under the recent ruling of the supreme court.

The cases were tried before federal Judge Landis and the sentence ranging from one to twenty hears were imposed.

Most of the men were given their liberty on bail bonds aggregating $500,000 pending the outcome of the appeals.

BBH at Detroit IWW Book Store, OBU p16, Jan 1921

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[Emphasis and photographs added.]

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