Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for November 1911, Part I: Found Involved in Conflict between Madero and Ricardo Flores Magón

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Quote Mother Jones Save Our Mexican Comrades, AtR p3, Feb 20, 1909—————

Hellraisers Journal – Friday December 15, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for November 1911, Part I
Found Involved in Conflict Between Madero and Magón

From the Appeal to Reason of November 4, 1911:

Mother Jones crpd ed, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910

Mexico.-The history of the Mexican revolution is too well known to need discussion here. Following the successful overthrow of Diaz there have appeared two tendencies of the working class movement in our sister republic. One of these, lead by [Ricardo Flores] Magon, is semi-anarchistic, while the other is socialistic. The Socialists have established a labor paper at the city of Mexico and both the Western Federation of Miners and the United Mine Workers have gone into the republic to organize the miners. Mother Jones is now there for that purpose, as is also Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners. Madero has promised his protection. It is too early to make predictions as to the result.

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[Photograph and emphasis added.]

From Regeneración of November 4, 1911
-Page 4, English Section:

…..Our readers must pardon us for piling up, week after week, the evidence of Madero’s complete subjection to the money power, and we ourselves feel that every mind open to conviction must have become persuaded long ago of the truthfulness of the charges we have been making for the last eight months. Unfortunately such women as “Mother Jones” apparently can be still won over by a handshake from Wall Street’s president-elect, and communications from men who are intriguing day and night for Madero are still played up in Socialist publications. For the most part, however, the Socialist press has dropped the Mexican revolution like a hot potato, it will have to take it up again, and, it is to be hoped, from an amended standpoint…..

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[Emphasis added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: Frank Little, IWW Organizer and Executive Board Member, Says: “Be Men. Don’t be a scab.”

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Payne County Farmer———————-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday December 14, 1911
From Yale, Oklahoma, Frank Little Exhorts Men Not to Scab on Fellow Workers

From the Payne County Farmer (Yale, Oklahoma) of December 13, 1911:

IWW Archive

The Explanation.

Editor Payne Co. Farmer: In the issue of Dec. 6 there was a letter from Texas, by Mrs. J. B. MacClain. She states that, in that county, the sawmills are idle for the want of men.

The sawmill worker of Texas and Louisiana have been fighting the lumber trust, trying to force them to pay living wages. There has been a strike on in that country for some time. All working men should stay away. Be men. Don’t be a scab.-F. H. Little, organizer of the I. W. W.

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Hellraisers Journal: Nine Fellow Workers Found Guilty Under Criminal Syndicalism Law in Los Angeles, California

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Quote Frank Little re Guts, Wobbly by RC p208, Chg July 1917———————-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 12, 1921
Los Angeles, California – Fellow Workers Found Guilty of Criminal Syndicalism

From The Los Angeles Times of December 8, 1921:

LA Tx p 25, Dec 8, 1921

Nine defendants in the I.W.W. criminal syndicalism, case in Judge Willis’s court were found guilty last night. The Jury found Manuel Engdal not guilty since he not only denied membership in the organization, but a membership card in his name was not produced. The eleventh defendant, Thomas Bailey, was dismissed several days ago.

The defendants acted as their own attorneys. Most of them were charged with two counts, membership in the I.W.W. and treasonable propaganda. They will be sentenced tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. The convicted men are William Baker, Ben Whittling, R. Bendig, Abraham Shocker, Henry Matlln, James Olson, W. I. Fruit, Louis Allen and Edward Peters. The case has been under way since November 10. Dep. Dist.-Attys. Turney and McCartney conducted the prosecution.

“I regard this conviction as one of the most important ever secured in the courts of this country,” said Dist.-Atty. Woolwine last evening. “It serves notice upon the Reds of the world that they cannot with impunity enter America and here hatch plots and schemes for the overthrow of our government and institutions.”

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Hellraisers Journal: Socialists Throughout the World Are Saddened to Learn of the Deaths of Paul and Laura Marx LaFargue

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Right to Be Lazy, 1883

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Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 11, 1911
Socialists Throughout the Grieve Deaths of Paul and Laura LaFargue

From The Coming Nation of December 9, 1911:

Death of the LaFargues

also at Marx org
Paul LaFargue

That Paul LaFargue, the keen thinker, Jovial writer and cheerful companion, and his wife, Laura Marx LaFargue, the genial hostess, and co-worker of her husband have committed suicide is the startling news that has brought sorrow to hosts of Socialists throughout the world.

Those who had enjoyed the hospitality of their home at Draveil, near Paris, who knew their remarkable personalities and especially their apparently unfailing good humor and optimism the news seems incredible.

The reason given is that for years he had been suffering from a mysterious incurable disease that baffled the skill of even the greatest physicians of Paris to diagnose. Sixty-eight years of age, it seems that he, with his wife, looked upon the world and decided that for them the time had come to leave it and they acted upon that decision bravely and frankly.

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Laura Marx LaFargue

For almost half a century Paul LaFargue has been known as a revolutionist. From the time when in 1866 he was expelled from the French University for having taken part in an anti-military demonstration, this expulsion sent him to England where he met Karl Marx, whose daughter Laura he married.

The story of his life has been the story of the revolutionary movement of Europe. Exiled from France, for activity in the Commune he returned to become a member of the Chamber of Deputies. With Jules Guesde he built up the strongest and the most intelligently revolutionary wing of the French Socialist party.

His writings have been translated into almost every language, and their sharp, biting wit, keen analytic power, shot through with that gentle humor so much needed and so seldom found in Socialist writings will go on for many years fighting the cause to which he and his wife gave so many years.

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Hellraisers Journal: 700 Thugs Organized by Mayor Parks to Stop IWW Free Speech Fight in Aberdeen, Washington

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IW Nov 30, 1911————————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday December 10, 1911
“FREE SPEECH must be established in Aberdeen! ON TO ABERDEEN!!”

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of December 7, 1911:

IW p1, Dec 7, 1911
We will now sing that touching hymn entitled
“Throw a Little Dough Upon the Drum.”

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ABERDEEN FULL OF THUGS
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A LULL IN THE STORM
-700 AUTHORIZED THUGS TO STOP 
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
-MAYOR PARKS THREATENS TO MURDER.
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ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 1.-Aberdeen is quiet after the storm. The I. W. W.’s have left, and can’t come back now if they want to. In fact, they did petition the mayor for permission to return peaceably, and were refused. So say the citizens.

Sympathizers with the organization, however, say guardedly that the “woods are full” of I. W. W.’s waiting for the proper time to strike a second blow against the town which, they say, has denied them the right of free speech.

The bustling lumber town is in a hubbub of excitement. The recent “invasion” is the topic of conversation on every street corner. Every one is aroused. “Aberdeen for law and order,” is the motto.

The 700 citizen police are still in authority and have their hickory ax handles and stout wagon wheel spokes handy in case they are needed again. The town is unnaturally quiet-like the calm before a storm. Serious men realize that the war may not yet be ended, and are waiting.

When the first skirmish took place five men mounted soap boxes on prominent street corners and demanded the right to preach their doctrine wherever they pleased. They were arrested. The next night 150 men wearing red tags made a demonstration before the city jail in favor of their imprisoned comrades. City officials ordered out the fire department and the crowd of I. W. W.’s and many bystanders were soaked with water. Several arrests followed. Friday Mayor Parks gave the oath to 500 special police. The number has since been swelled to 700. The I. W. W.’s attempted to hold a meeting in the Empire theater and the hardest struggle of the week took place. Citizen police patrolled all streets in squads and arrested every man they could find wearing the red tag of the I. W. W.’s. The meeting was dispersed.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for November 1901, Part I: Found in Huntington, West Virginia, at State Miners’ Convention

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Quote Mother Jones WV Miners Conditions, ISR p179 , Sept 1901———————-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 9, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for November 1901, Part I
Found at State Miners’ Convention in Huntington, West Virginia

From The Indianapolis Journal of November 1, 1901:

“MOTHER” JONES FOR WAR.
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Urges Miners to Resort to Arms if Necessary to Win.

Mother Jones, Drawing, SDH p4, Mar 9, 1901

HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. 31.-Twenty-five of the officials and organizers of the United Mine Workers of America attended the first day’s session of the State miners,’ convention here to-day. The presence of John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, Vice President Lewis, Secretary-treasurer Wilson and others of prominence made the meeting one of more than ordinary importance. The convention consists of more than 150 union miners from Virginia and West Virginia. A permanent organization was effected during the forenoon session and the usual committees were appointed.

The afternoon was spent in hearing the reports from the various delegates as to the condition of the order in their respective territories. There were no transactions of importance, and the day ended with a mass meeting to-night which was addressed by Vice President T. L. Lewis, of the national organization. “Mother” Jones and Organizer and Secretary-treasurer W. B. Wilson, “Mother” Jones advised the miners to go home and resort to arms, if necessary, to accomplish their purpose.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for November 1901, Part II: U. M. W. A. Organizing Drive of West Virginia Miners Continues

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Quote Mother Jones WV Miners Conditions, ISR p179 , Sept 1901———————-

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday December 8, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for November 1901, Part II
Found at Work Organizing the Miners of West Virginia

From the Shullsburg (Wisconsin) Southwestern Local of November 22, 1901:

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Hellraisers Journal: McNamaras Sentenced; Darrow Criticized; Harriman Defeated in Election for Mayor of Los Angeles

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Quote EVD re Dynamiting, Ipl Ns p8, Dec 4, 1911———————-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday December 7, 1911
Los Angeles, California – McNamaras Sentenced; Darrow Stung by Criticism
-Socialist Candidate for Mayor, Job Harriman, Defeated

From The San Francisco Call of December 6, 1911:

SF Call p1, Dec 6, 1911

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SF Call p1, Dec 6, 1911

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Industrial Pioneer: Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union Slogan: “On With Organization”

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Ind Pnr p11, Dec 1921—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday December 6, 1921
”On With Organization” is Slogan of Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union

From the Industrial Pioneer of December 1921:

Splitting the Big Drive

By Wm. Dimmit

THE annual convention of Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union No. 110 is over. According to all precedents that means that the drive is completed and that all will be dormant till the next harvest of wheat calls for men and more men.

This year has not been a customary year, however. The drive in all its earliest stages assumed new forms, and greater strength and economic power was developed than ever before. This year the convention has not ended the drive. On with the organization drive, was the slogan there and everywhere…..

No, the harvest drive is not over. From coast to coast rings the slogan today-ON WITH ORGANIZATION.

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