Tag: Biwabik MN

Hellraisers Journal: Flynn, Vorse, and Women’s Welfare League Fight for Wives of Striking Miners

Janet RayeElizabeth Gurley Flynn
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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, Tuesday August 29, 1916
Virginia, Minnesota – Mrs. Masonovitch Held in County Jail

From the Duluth Labor World of August 26, 1916:

STUDY CONDITIONS OF MINERS WIVES
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Women’s Welfare League Would Relieve
Suffering In Strike Zone.
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Masonovitch, Militza & Phillip, ISR, Nov 1916

VIRGINIA, Aug. 26.-Mrs. L. A. Hamlin of St. Paul, a member of the executive board of the Women’s Welfare league of that city, visited in Virginia and Biwabik recently, making an investigation of the strike conditions for the St. Paul club and for the charities and correction committee of the Minnesota Federation of Women’s Clubs, of which Mrs. V. F. Kinney of Minneapolis is chairman.

Mrs. Hamlin is making the investigation for the purpose of reporting on the manner in which the women of the range are treated, especially by the special deputy sheriffs employed by the mining companies. The women’s Welfare league was recently addressed by Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of the I. W. W. and Marie Heaton Vorst [Mary Heaton Vorse], who visited on the range to secure news of the strike for Harper’s magazine and other eastern publications.
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Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on the Mesabi Range, Calls on Iron Miners to Stick Together

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

Friday July 28, 1916
From Mesabi Strike Zone: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Fights for Miners

EGF, MN Iron Miners Strike, Tacoma Tx, July 26, 1916


From the Duluth News Tribune of July 23, 1916:

Miss Flynn in City.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I. W. W. agent, returned to Duluth last night, after a week spent among the strikers on the range. She said she would rest here today and return to the strike zone the first of the week.

“i delivered speeches in nearly all the range towns last week,” she said at the Holland hotel. “Sometimes I spoke in two or three towns in one day. The situation is quiet with both strikers and operators playing a ‘watchful, waiting’ game. It seems to have developed into a test of endurance-a test to see which faction can stand it the longest.”

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Hellraisers Journal: Attorney Keyes Describes Arrests of Strike Leaders Without Warrants All Along the Mesabi

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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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Wednesday July 26, 1916
From The Labor World: “Facts Regarding Strike,” Part II

From the Duluth Labor World of July 22nd:

FACTS REGARDING STRIKE BECLOUDED
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Duluth Attorney Scores Mining Company Police,
Courts and Daily Press.
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LEADERS ARRESTED WITHOUT GOOD CAUSE
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Fate of Republic Hangs Upon Settlement
of Trouble on Range, He Says.
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John Arnold Keyes, Labor World, Sep 12, 1896

The real facts concerning the strike of the miners on the Mesaba range have been beclouded by misrepresentation and much prejudice aroused against the miners according to Attorney John A. Keyes of Duluth, who is acting as counsel for some of the leaders who have been placed under arrest. Mr. Keyes denounces the mining corporation police, the “gunmen” as termed by the miners, and the courts and daily press in part. Stories from the range have been highly colored Mr. Keyes declares, and so for the sake of justice, he has made the following statement regarding the cause and development of the strike and conditions up to the present time [Part II of statement by Attorney Keyes]:

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Hellraisers Journal: The Duluth Labor World Blames Deputized Company Gunthugs for Violence on the Range

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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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Sunday July 16, 1916
The Duluth Labor World Shows Surprising Support for I. W. W.

MN Miners Strike, Get Out IWW, Cartoon, DNT, July 6, 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: Mesabi Range Strike: Deputy Sheriff and Soft Drink Vendor Killed in Battle at Striker’s 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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Friday July 7, 1916
Biwabik, Minnesota – Strikers and Striker’s Wife Arrested

From the July 1st edition of The Duluth News Tribune:

MN Miners Strike-give 'em the boot cartoon, DNT, July 1, 1916
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