You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday July 29, 1916
Mesabi Range, Minnesota: Miss Flynn Speaks to Striking Miners
From The Duluth News Tribune of
July 24, 1916:
I. W. W. LEADER GOES BACK TO STRIKE ZONE
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Elizabeth G. Flynn’s Departure Causes
Postponement of Rallies in Duluth.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I. W. W. leader, returned to the range yesterday, forcing the postponement of last night’s meetings here, at which she was scheduled to appear to renew her local efforts for funds with which to continue the strike.
It was announced at local I. W. W. headquarters that Miss Flynn, after arriving in the city Saturday night to fill Sunday’s speech-making engagements, received orders to return immediately to the range. Louis Meles, secretary of the local branch of the organization, professed ignorance of the contingency requiring her presence in the strike zone.
J. S. Randolph substituted for Miss Flynn at a street meeting last night at Sixth avenue West and Michigan street. A few dollars was collected from the throng who heard his plea for financial assistance in behalf of the miners.
“Conditions on the Range” were discussed by Einar Ljungberg, Socialist orator, in an address last night before 300 Duluth Scandinavians at the Woodman hall. It was Ljungberg’s last speech in this country before returning to his home in Stockholm, Sweden.
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