Hellraisers Journal: From the American Socialist: Ryan Walker on American Militarism

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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 April 8, 1917
From the American Socialist: Ryan Walker Comments of Militarism

“Russianizing America” by Ryan Walker:

Russia America, Ryan Walker, AmSc, Apr 7, 1917

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Hellraisers Journal: Ryan Walker on the Working Class and War; Henry Dubb Goes off to Fight for His Home

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There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday March 26, 1917
From the Pen of Ryan Walker: The Working Class & War

From The Northwest Worker of March 22, 1917:

WWI Dead All On Our Side, Ryan Walker, Nw Wkr, Mar 22, 1917

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Hellraisers Journal: Henry Dubb Has No Worries on the Job; the Boss Assumes ALL the Risk

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-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday January 14, 1917
From the American Socialist: Henry Dubb Works Risk-Free

Henry Dubb by Ryan Walker

Henry Dubb and Boss, The Risks, Ryan Walker, AmSc, Jan 13, 1917

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Hellraisers Journal: Mr. Grab-It-All has a very good year while the Ninety and Nine work and die in want and hunger and cold.

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There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday December 31, 1916
From the American Socialist: Grab-It-All’s Very Good Year

GrabItAlls Year, Ryan Walker, AmSc, Dec 30, 1916

From the Appeal to Reason of December 31, 1916:

Ninety and Nine, Rose E Smith, AtR, Dec 30, 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: Hunger in America: Attorney General to Investigate As Working Men, Woman and Children Ask for More

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This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Friday November 24, 1916
Washington, D. C. – Investigation of Hunger to Commence

From the American Socialist of November 18, 1916:

Uncle Sam and Hunger, Am Socialist, Nov 18, 1916

INVESTIGATING HUNGER.

Attorney General Gregory announces that he will investigate the “abnormal and suspicious increases in the prices of the various necessities of life, especially coal.”

If it is found that such increases are due “to conspiracy and other unlawful action,” the department will invoke the severest penalties which the law prescribes.

When hunger stalks abroad in the land, when America is starved to pile up profits for private gamblers who feed the war in Europe, the attorney general promises an investigation that will change nothing whatever in the general situation and will not put one single piece of bread into one hungry mouth. There is no law passed by any old party that prevents any business man from charging for his goods what “the traffic will bear.”

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Hellraisers Journal: Minneapolis Elects Socialist Mayor: Thomas H. Van Lear, Member of Machinists’ Union

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Organize! Oh, toilers, come organize your might;
Then we’ll sing one song of the workers’ commonwealth,
Full of beauty, full of love and health.
-Joe Hill

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday November 23, 1916
Minneapolis, Minnesota – New Mayor Is a Socialist Union Organizer

From the American Socialist of November 18, 1916:

Elections of 1916, Am Socialist, Smashing Victories, Nov 18

Elections 1916, London & Van Lear, Am Socialist, Nov 18

For the first time in the history of the nation a Socialist congressman has been re-elected. Meyer London has been sent back to Washington for two years more by the twelfth New York district to speak for labor in the national capitol.

For the second time a Socialist has been elected mayor of a large city against the combined opposition of all the old parties. Thomas H. Van Lear has been chosen chief executive of Minneapolis, Minn., the metropolis of the northwest.

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Hellraisers Journal: The Socialist Vote, the Grab-it-alls, the Henry Dubbs, and the Ballot Box

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We will sing one song
of the workers’ commonwealth,
full of beauty, full of love and health.
-Joe Hill
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 29, 1916
From the American Socialist: Ryan Walker on the Socialist Club

American Socialist, Oct 28, 1916
Detail, Grabitall, Dubb, Socialist Vote, R Walker, AmSc, Oct 28, 1916
Grabitall, Dubb, Socialist Vote, Walker, AmSc, Oct 28, 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: Wilson, Democrat and Hughes, Republican: “They Kept Us Out of War”

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But when the sky darkens
And the prospect is war
Who’s given a gun
And then pushed to the fore
And expected to die
For the land of our birth
When we’ve never owned
One handful of earth?
-Ed Pickford

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday October 26, 1916
The Northwest Worker on “Political Saviors”

POLITICAL SAVIORS WHO WILL
“KEEP US OUT OF WAR”
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Benson Kirkpatrick, American Socialist July 8, 1916

Wilson kept us out of war. Therefore, if re-elected, he will continue to keep us out of war. How, we ask, can any intelligent person assume that there is the slightest basis for such reasoning? We can imagine a person attributing supernatural powers to Wilson accepting it, but he certainly would not be an intelligent person, or let us say, he accepted it as a matter of faith, and not of reason.

If Wilson should be re-elected, and the country does not go to war, that faith would naturally be strengthened among his supporters. But, if, under the same circumstances, the country did go to war, there would be nothing easier than for his supporters to claim that it was forced on him; that he was not able to keep the country out of war, despite their belief that he could. That belief would be conveniently forgotten, and they would hate to be reproached with ever entertaining it.

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Hellraisers Journal: Socialism at the Legislative Doors by Ryan Walker for the American Socialist

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday October 24, 1916
From the American Socialist: Socialist on 1916 Ballots

Socialism Legislative Doors, Ryan Walker, AmSc, Oct 21, 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: “The Disfranchised” by Ryan Walker from the American Socialist

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Men, their rights, and nothing more;
women, their rights,
and nothing less.
-Susan B. Anthony

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Hellraisers Journal Sunday September 24, 1916
American Socialist: Ryan Walker on the Right to Vote

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