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Hellraisers Journal: From Charles H. Kerr: New Edition of “Socialist Songs”-No. 11 of Pocket Library of Socialism

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Quote, Kerr Translation Internationale, Socialist Songs 2nd, Jan 15, 1900———————-

Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 2, 1901
New Edition of “Socialist Songs” Now Available from C. H. Kerr

From the International Socialist Review of December 1901:

Socialist Songs.
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We are glad to announce that we have just published a new edition of No. 11 of the Pocket Library of Socialism entitled, “Socialist Songs” The new edition corresponds exactly to the words in our larger book “Socialist Songs with Music.” The price of the new booklet is 5 cents, and we offer it at $1.50 a hundred, postpaid, to any Socialist Local, or $1 a hundred, postpaid, to any Local holding a share of stock in our company.

The price of “Socialist Songs with Music” is 20 cents a copy, or $1.50 a dozen, postpaid. This book has given general satisfaction and has made it practicable to have singing in connection with Socialist meetings in many places. The greatest obstacle to its general introduction has been that comrades often could not afford to pay for enough books to scatter through a large hall for propaganda meetings.

The publication of the booklet now announced will make it possible to introduce singing in propaganda meetings everywhere by supplying a few copies of the edition with music for the musicians who assist at the meeting, and scattering the booklets through the crowd. We have endeavored to introduce no song that is not in itself good propaganda material.

[Photograph added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Social Democratic Herald: Sketch of Mother Jones, Publications of Charles H. Kerr

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Quote JA Wayland, Mother Jones, AtR p1, Mar 17, 1900———-

Hellraisers Journal – Friday March 15, 1901
Chicago, Illinois – Sketch of Mother Jones, Ad for Publications of Charles H. Kerr 

From the Social Democratic Herald of March 9, 1901:

Mother Jones, Drawing, SDH p4, Mar 9, 1901———-AD for ISR fr SDH p4, Mar 9, 1901

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Hellraisers Journal: Newly Compiled: Socialist Songs with Music, from Charles H. Kerr & Company of Chicago, Illinois

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Quote Charles H Kerr, Tramp, Sc Songs w Music No 27, Feb 15, 1901———–

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday February 23, 1901
New Socialist Songbook from Charles H. Kerr of Chicago

Socialist Songs with Music, Compiled by Charles H Kerr
 -from Library of Progress Quarterly, No. 37, February 15, 1901

Sc Songs w Music, ed by CH Kerr, Title Page, Feb 15, 1901

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Hellraisers Journal: International Socialist Review: “The International Party” -C. H. Kerr Translation, with Sheet Music

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Quote, Kerr Translation Internationale, Socialist Songs 2nd, Jan 15, 1900———-

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday December 4, 1900
L’Internationale by Eugène Pottier, Translated by C. H. Kerr

From the International Socialist Review of December 1900:

Internationale, Pottier, CH Kerr, ISR p383, Dec 1900

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Hellraisers Journal: From International Socialist Review: Story of Child Labor, “The Apostate” by Jack London

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Quote Lafargue re Child Labor, ISR p945, June 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 5, 1909
“The Apostate” by Jack London, The Story of a Child Laborer

From The International Socialist Review of June 1909:

A Story of Child Labor

“THE APOSTATE”

BY JACK LONDON.

Letter I, ISR p352, May 1909F you don’t git up, Johnny, I won’t give you a bite to eat!”

Child Labor, Lewis Hine, NCLC, Nicholas Karambles 6 AM, Dover NH, May 15, 1909

The threat had no effect on the boy. He clung stubbornly to sleep, fighting for its oblivion as the dreamer fights for his dream. The boy’s hands loosely clenched themselves, and he made feeble, spasmodic blows at the air. These blows were intended for his mother, but she betrayed practiced familiarity in avoiding them as she shook him roughly by the shoulder.

“Lemme ‘lone!”

It was a cry that began, muffled, in the deeps of sleep, that swiftly rushed upward, like a wail, into passionate belligerence, and that died away and sank down into an inarticulate whine. It was a bestial cry, as of a soul in torment, filled with infinite protest and pain.

But she did not mind. She was a sad-eyed, tired-faced woman, and she had grown used to this task, which she repeated every day of her life. She got a grip on the bedclothes and tried to strip them down; but the boy, ceasing his punching, clung to them desperately. In a huddle at the foot of the bed, he still remained covered. Then she tried dragging the bedding to the floor. The boy opposed her. She braced herself. Hers was the superior weight, and the boy and bedding, the former instinctively following the later in order to shelter against the chill of the room that bit into his body.

As he toppled on the edge of the bed it seemed that he must fall head-first to the floor. But consciousness fluttered up in him. He righted himself and for a moment perilously balanced. Then he struck the floor on his feet. On the instant his mother seized him by the shoulders and shook him. Again his fists struck out, this time with more force and directness. At the same time his eyes opened. She released him. He was awake.

“All right,” he mumbled.

She caught up the lamp and hurried out, leaving him in darkness.

“You’ll be docked,” she warned back to him.

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Hellraisers Journal: “Six Red Months in Russia” by Louise Bryant, Describes Day-by-Day Drama of Russian Revolution

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Quote Louise Bryant, Six Red Months pxi, 1918

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Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 9, 1918
On Sale Now: “Six Red Months in Russia” by Louis Bryant

From The Liberator of December 1918:

Louise Bryant, Six Red Months Ad, Liberator p2, Dec 1918

Day-by-Day Drama of Russian Revolution

Imagine! If you had been alive at the end of the 18th century what would you have given for a book describing the day-by-day drama of the great French Revolution telling how Mirabeau, Marat, Robespierre, Charlotte Corday, looked, how they acted, what they said-all told by a first class, wide-awake unprejudiced reporter.

You who live now at a time when the great Russian Revolution, more tremendous by far than the French Revolution, is shaking a hostile world to its foundations, have the opportunity to walk with Louise Bryant through the streets of Petrograd and Moscow, to see Babushka and Kerensky in the Winter Palace, to watch the fall of the Provisional Government, the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the rise of the proletariat. You can see Lenine, Trotsky, Spirodonova, Kollantai, and many others, watch them in action, hear them talk. You can get an intimate picture of the women soldiers and the ragged Red Guard Army.

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Hellraisers Journal: Eugene V. Debs Sends Message to Comrades of Newly Formed Social Democratic Party of America

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Quote EVD, Modern Wage Slave, Terre Haute May 31, 1898, Debs-IA
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday July 18, 1898
Eugene V. Debs: “The Social Democratic Party of America lives.”

From the Chicago Social Democratic Herald of July 16, 1898:

The Future

To the Social Democratic Party.

Comrades:—

EVD, New Time Magazine, Feb 1898

That I have not earlier sent greeting to my comrades is due to prolonged indisposition. The incessant work and travel of more than 20 years have temporarily placed me hors de combat [out of the fight]. But only temporarily. With returning health and strength my work will be continued. It is not a little disquieting to have to “let go,” even for a little while, when there is such urgent need for action.

The separation at the late convention was inevitable. It had to come. The contemplation of division was painful, as only those can fully realize who were party to it. But painful as it was, the operation had to be performed. And it was a success, for the Social Democratic Party of America lives. All the members are full fledged socialists. They are in accord with the program of international socialism. There is not only in the number opposed to independent political action, not one that asks or expects anything from any old capitalist party, by whatever name it may be called.

There is harmony. There is oneness of purpose, there is true-hearted fidelity to principle, there is unrelaxing energy, and these qualities in alliance presage success.

So I contemplate the course of events with serenity.

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Hellraisers Journal: “What’s the Matter with Debs?” -Buchanan Questions Exit from Social Democracy of America

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EVD Quote, Revolutionary Solidarity, ISR Feb 1918
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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday July 5, 1898
Controversy Continues over Division in Social Democracy

From the Omaha Western Laborer of July 2, 1898:

Social Democracy:
The Withdrawal of Debs and What It Means

by Joseph R. Buchanan

“What’s the matter with Debs?”

Joseph Ray Buchanan (1851-1924), Western Laborer, July 2, 1898

I have heard that query propounded many times during the past four weeks. Men whom I met at different places on a trip from New York to Omaha and return asked me the question. The division in the Social Democracy was in the mind of everyone who asked it, and what they really wanted to know was the cause of the split in that organization. I was in Chicago two or three days after the break occurred [June 11th], and I met and talked with representative men of each wing of the divided movement. I tried hard to see Debs but failed. However, I saw two men who undoubtedly had the knowledge to speak for his side, and they claimed the authority to do so. However, both sides agree as to the real reason of the division, and that reason is not a secret, as it was given in the daily press of Chicago at the time.

A minority of the delegates to the national convention held in Chicago [June 7-11] wanted to change the program and policy of the Social Democracy by abandoning the colonization feature. When the test vote was taken, the result showed 52 for retaining the colony scheme and 37 against. The 37 bolted the convention and Debs joined them. They afterward met and decided to reorganize the minority on educational and political lines, entirely abandoning the colony project and to go forth with a new plan for a socialistic political party

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