Hellraisers Journal: Suffragist Picket Now in Prison & Susan B. Anthony Remembered by Eugene Debs

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EVD Quote, Susan B Anthony, Pearson's Mag, July 1917

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday October 25, 1917
Occoquan Workhouse, Virginia – Photograph of Abby Scott Baker

From Indiana’s Richmond Palladium of October 22, 1917:

Suffragists, Abby Scott Baker, Prison, Rmd IN Pldm, Oct 22, 1917

Here are shown two photographs of Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, one of the most prominent women members of army set in Washington, recently arrested with other militant suffragists outside the White House and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the workhouse at Occoquan.

The first photograph depicts her in evening dress, and the second shows her in the coarse uniform given her after she had begun serving her sentence. This uniform consists of underwear made of ticking, thick cotton socks, man’s size shoes with the soles worn through, and a blue gingham apron held at the waist with a string that also served as a corset. In the pocket of the apron she carried a comb and tooth brush, given her by the officials of the workhouse.

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DEBS REMEMBERS SUSAN B. ANTHONY

While the suffragists picketing the White House in Washington D. C. are being dragged off to jail, we offer this remembrance of Susan B. Anthony, whose long and unrelenting struggle for full citizenship these brave women carry on. The fond memorial tribute to Miss Anthony is gleaned from an article by Eugene V. Debs which appeared in the July 1917 edition of Pearson’s Magazine. (We urge our readers to seek out the entire article):

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: Art Young Pens Opinion on Wartime Profiteering

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I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world.
-Eugene V. Debs

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday October 24, 1917
From The Masses: “Control of Industrial Profits” by Art Young

WWI, War Profits by Art Young, Masses, Oct 1917

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Hellraisers Journal: Conditions of “Economic Indecency” Commonplace Today in Nation’s Capital

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday October 23, 1917
Washington, D. C. – Report on Poverty from U. S. Department of Labor

Bitter Cry, Spargo, Little Tenement Toilers, Feb 1906

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The nation was shocked in 1906 when John Spargo’s Bitter Cry of the Children revealed shocking details of the lives of millions of American children who then lived in conditions of abject poverty (such as those pictured above). A recent report from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, demonstrates that conditions of “economic indecency” are yet commonplace among the American working class.

From the Appeal to Reason of October 20, 1917:

Bad Living Conditions In the
Nation’s Capital

Everybody knows-and mostly from painful personal experience-that living conditions are shockingly miserable as a result of high prices. But when confronted with the cold facts and figures, such as the Appeal has been running regularly for several weeks past, one realizes the truth even more terribly. We do not believe any one can read the following report of the federal bureau of labor statistics on living conditions in the city of Washington, which appears in the Weekly News Letter of the American Federation of Labor, without agreeing that it affords “a shocking example of economic indecency”:

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Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, “The East Side Joan of Arc.” Young Irish Beauty is “Ardent Socialist Orator”

Janet RayeElizabeth Gurley Flynn
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The one system of economics
that gives every human being
an equal opportunity is socialism.
-Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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Hellraisers Journal, Monday October 21, 1907
New York, New York – Comrade Elizabeth Flynn Preaches Socialism

From the Montana News of October 17, 1907:

Women's Clubs, Montana News, Sept 5, 1907

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An East Side Joan of Arc.

EGF Girl Socialist w Hat, NYW, Aug 24, 1906

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They call her Comrade Elisabeth Flynn, and she is only a girl just turned 16, as sweet a 16 as ever bloomed with a sensitive, flower-like face. But she is also an ardent socialist orator, one of the most active workers in the cause in New York City. It was in January [1906] last that she made her first appearance on the lecture platform, and electrified her audience with her eloquence, her youth and her loveliness. Since then she has been in demand as a speaker wherever in the city there has been a socialist gathering, at Cooper Union or at Carnegie Hall or on the street corners of the East side. Continue reading “Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, “The East Side Joan of Arc.” Young Irish Beauty is “Ardent Socialist Orator”” →

Hellraisers Journal: George Pettibone Escapes Hospital, Returns to Boise Jail Cell, Wants Trial to Proceed

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 20, 1907
Boise, Idaho – George Pettibone Does Not Want Trial Delayed

From the Duluth Labor World of October 19, 1907:

PETTIBONE RUNS AWAY FROM
HOSPITAL NURSE
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Returns to Jail and Demands That
He be Locked in His Cell.
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Afraid If He Stays in Hospital He
May Not be Tried This Year.
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HMP, Mrs Pettibone, SF Call, June 17, 1907

BOISE, Idaho, Oct., 17.—George A.. Pettibone escaped from St. Alphonsus’ hospital this afternoon, but before his absence had been discovered he had presented himself at the office of Sheriff Shad Hodgin and demanded that he be placed in his cell. Accompanied by his wife, he was walking about the hospital yard, and at a time when his guard was not watching he walked slowly to the county jail, half a block away.

Sheriff Hodgin was much surprised when the prisoner, unguarded, walked in on him, and could do nothing else than comply with the request of his prisoner that he be locked up. No sooner had he been placed in the big cell, which was the home of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone for eighteen months, than there came a telephone message from the hospital to the effect that Pettibone was nowhere to be found. The sheriff allayed the fears of the hospital attendants by informing them that their patient was safe behind the bars.

Pettibone left the hospital in order to add strength to his position in demanding immediate trial. When Judge Wood talked over the matter of continuing the case with the attorneys in court last week, he said that it is certain that if the defendant is too ill to be in jail he is too sick to stand the strain of a three months’ trial. Taking his cue from this statement, Pettibone immediately asked that he be taken back to jail. His request was not complied with, and, waiting for a time when he was not noticed, he took “French leave” of the institution.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for September 1917, Part II: Found in Illinois & Washington D. C.

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Friday October 19, 1917
Mother Jones News for September, Part II: Attends Root-Gompers Meeting

After her speech supporting the street car strikers in Springfield, Illinois, Mother Jones was blamed for a “riot” in that city. On September 15th, Mother attended a pro-war mass meeting in Chicago where the featured speakers were Elihu Root and Samuel Gompers.

From The Decatur Herald of September 5, 1917:

SPRINGFIELD IS CAUTIOUS AFTER RIOT
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People Warned, Troops Ready,
“Mother” Jones, Boose and Burnette Blamed.
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Mother Jones, IL State Rgstr p2, Springfield, Sept 1, 1917

SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 5-As a result of rioting here Monday night [September 3rd], which resulted in the wrecking of 6 street cars, the riddling with bricks of the front of the car companies office building and the arresting of 20 rioters, Mayor C. T. Baumann last night following a conference of city, county and military officials with assistance of Ajt. Gen. Richings J. Shand at the state house, issued a proclamation ordering all citizens of Springfield to keep off the streets as much as possible and forbidding all gatherings in the streets or public places under penalty of arrest and imprisonment. Mayor Baumann’s action was a direct result of Monday night’s trouble and reports that there would be further organized out breaks, with possible attacks in force on street car company property.

Soldiers On Guard.

Although there have been only isolated instances of trouble, last night, such as the stoning of cars in remote sections of the city, soldiers with fixed bayonets patrolled the main business streets with sentries on every corner keeping the people moving and breaking up gatherings. Additional forces were held at the court house and state arsenal, with automobiles in readiness to rush them to any danger point.

Men arrested by the soldiers Monday night are being held at the county jail, which is guarded by soldiers. It is said that they will be turned over to the civil authorities Wednesday.

Mackie Assigns Cause.

“Mother Jones, Burnette and Bloomington booze” were the three causes of the Springfield riots of Monday night as assigned by general Manager Mackie of the Springfield Utilities company Tuesday.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for September 1917, Part I: Found in Illinois and Kentucky

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Mother Jones Quote, 2x4 kaiser union recognition hell freeze over.

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday October 18, 1917
Mother Jones News for September, Part I: Speech in Springfield

From the Illinois State Register of September 1, 1917:

On the evening of August 31st, Mother Jones spoke in Springfield, Illinois, to striking carmen and their supporters. The speech was well-covered the next day by the Register.

MOTHER JONES ASKS AID
FOR CAR STRIKERS
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Tells Unionists to Unite in Fight
Against Street Car Company and Win
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4,000 HEAR SPEAKER
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Crowds Throng Court House Yard
and Cheer as Advocate of Labor Talks
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Mother Jones, IL State Rgstr p2, Springfield, Sept 1, 1917

Four thousand striking car men, members of allied labor organizations and curious outsiders last night on the court house square heard “Mother” Jones, self-confessed labor agitator and proud of it, urged the strikers and their sympathizers to disregard judges, courts, injunctions or any other power that might be invoked and to fight the street railway company until it is forced to meet the demands of the union.

Less extreme than she is reported to have been in other cities where labor troubles were in progress, “Mother” Jones did not directly urge the strikers to resort to violence in gaining their ends, but she demanded that every allied labor organization in Springfield take up the cause, have their meters removed and go out on “sympathy” strikes to tie up the city’s industries until pressure is brought to bear to force the utility company to admit itself beaten.

The meeting, advertised to be held in Carpenters’ hall, was transferred to the court house grounds, when it became evident long before the time set for “Mother” Jones to speak, that not one-third of those who wished to hear her would be able to get into the hall. Before half-past seven the hall was packed, and hundreds were thronging the street before the building seeking admittance. Continue reading “Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for September 1917, Part I: Found in Illinois and Kentucky” →

Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: Young Conscript Measured for Death by Henry J. Glintenkamp

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I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world.
– Eugene V. Debs

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday October 17, 1917
From The Masses: “Physically Fit” by Henry J. Glintenkamp

WWI, Measured for Death & Physically Fit by Glintenkamp, Masses Oct 1917

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Hellraisers Journal: From Luella Twining: Unions of the East Continue Defense Work on Behalf of George Pettibone

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This is a show of solidarity
that would make our masters tremble
could they but see it.
-Luella Twining

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday October 16, 1907
Eastern Conferences Stand Firm in Support of Pettibone

In case anyone believes that, with the acquittal of Bill Haywood, the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Conferences have gone slack in their defense work, the following report from Luella Twining should disabuse them of that idea.

From the Appeal to Reason of October 12, 1907:

THE EASTERN CONFERENCES
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Progress of the Defence Work
Among Unions in the East.
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BY LUELLA TWINING.
Representative Western Federation of Miners.
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Luella Twining ab 1907

THE Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone conferences in the east are continuing with the characteristic vigor they evidenced from the start. I attended two meetings of the Philadelphia Conference three weeks ago. The hall was filled. I have been out of the city visiting unions in nearby cities and have not attended the New York Conference for some time. I was surprised and touched to see what a fine meeting they had Sunday night, after these months and months in which they have met regularly each week. The unions of the city were well represented. When I stepped into the room and saw the crowd I thought to myself: “This is a show of solidarity that would make our masters tremble could they but see it.” They are all moved by the spirit expressed by Brother P. Schaefer of the national executive board of the Brewers, who said: “We shall never rest till Pettibone is liberated from that prison cell and the Western Federation of Miners is safe. We will not allow the mine owners to break this fine organization by hanging its officials or destroying it financially.”

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