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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday November 28, 1909
Spokane, Washington – Bread and Water Thanksgiving for I. W. W.
From The Spokane Press of November 25, 1909:
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PROCLAMATION BY THE I. W. W.
The following Thanksgiving proclamation was issued this morning by a committee of the I. W. W.:
We feel that we have reason to be thankful that we have an organization in which are enlisted men with moral courage to go to prison and fast and suffer hunger for the principle of free speech, on this day when the American people are feasting and offering thanks for the blessings they enjoy.
We feel that we have reasons to be thankful that there are men outside of jail willing to forego the pleasures of feasting today in sympathy with their fellows who have offered themselves as a sacrifice in a just cause.
We further see reasons for offering thanks because the movement of protest has grown and that progress has been made in the past year in the work of enlightening the wage earners as to the conditions confronting them in this republic, in which the people have long since ceased to rule.
All of these things make us thankful and give occasion to rejoice that through the gloom and shadows that now surround us a ray of light and hope begins to appear.
W. H. Douglas, C. M. Conner, J. Burns, Committee.
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[Emphasis added.]
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