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, Tuesday December 5, 1916
Minnesota Mesabi Iron Range – Bullets for Striking Miners?
The Duluth Labor World recently addressed the grave concern displayed by the Biwabik Times for the poor picked-upon Steel Trust. The Times believes that the Lumber Trust of Washington set a good example on the care and treatment of labor agitators when their deputized company gunthugs committed mass murder on Everett’s Bloody Sunday.
From The Labor World of December 2, 1916:
BIWABIK TIMES ADVOCATES MURDER!
The Biwabik Times in its issue of Nov. 24 openly
advocates murder!Think of it! That staunch defender of the poor unprotected steel trust!
It, advocates and even urges the citizens of Biwabik to take human life!
The Times is really worried over the plight of the poor unprotected steel trust. It isn’t fair to call another strike. So naturally the Times has its first convulsion when it learns that a strike of miners will be called on April 1, 1917.
Here is their recommendation:
“To the Times there is apparently but one way to stop this outrage, and that is to just as did the citizens of Everett, Washington.”
The Everett tragedy, contrary to the statements made by the Biwabik Times, is a sad commentary upon the characters and names of the Everett business men who promoted it.
