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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Arrives in Chicago, Served with Injunction, Declares, “What a lot of rot!”

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All strikes are alike;
They are protest against charity,
ignorance, misery, hunger,
industrial slavery, and jails.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday February 27, 1917
Chicago, Illinois – Mother Jones Arrives to Aid Garment Strikers

Mother Jones states she will aid the garment workers now on strike in this city, court injunction notwithstanding. Most of the strikers are women. Many of them have been brought before Judge Baldwin, the old injunction judge, forced to listen to his endless lectures and sentenced for up to six months in jail.

From The Pittsburgh Press:

PREPARE TO DEAL WITH “MOTHER” JONES
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By United Press.

Mother Mary Harris Jones, Logansport, IN, Sept 27, 1916

Chicago, Feb. 26.-Officials anticipated activities of “Mother” Jones, aged 83, labor leader. When she arrived here from New York to participate in the garment workers’ strike, she was served with a copy of the injunction prohibiting picketing.

[She declared:]

What a lot of rot. Imagine an old judge issuing a thing like that in the twentieth century.

I shall speak in Chicago if I am asked and attend meetings too. All strikes are alike; they are a protest against charity, ignorance, misery, hunger, industrial slavery, and jails.

Miss Gertrude Barnum, who with Theodore Roosevelt, helped settle the kimona workers’ strike in 1913, has also arrived to help the strikers.

[Photograph added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Appeal to Reason: U. S. Supreme Court Declares Kidnapping Legal (If Perpetrated by the State)

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If they hang Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone,
they’ve got to hang me.
-Eugene Victor Debs

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday December 9, 1906
U. S. A. – Governors Are Now Empowered to Kidnap Citizens

From the Appeal to Reason of December 8, 1906:

KIDNAPING DECLARED LEGAL
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U. S. Supreme Court’s Decision Upholds
“Peabody Civilization.”
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HMP, McDonald Gooding, Kidnappers of Feb 18, 1906

Chief Justice Harlan, in behalf of the United States supreme court, Monday, December 3, handed down a decision in the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone appeal case, in which the court declined to release the officers of the Western Federation of Miners from the custody of the Idaho authorities, in whose keeping they have been since February of the present year. The prisoners asked for a release on the ground that they were illegally arrested in Colorado, kidnaped and carried into Idaho and there detained without due process of law. At the time of their arrest Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were charged with the assassination of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, who was killed on the night of December 30, 1905.

The appeal, taken from the Idaho courts, was argued by Attorneys Darrow and Richardson before the United States supreme court October 9 last. So important were the issues involved that the Washington tribunal sidetracked all other measures and applied itself to an immediate consideration of this Federation appeal.

While the decision, as announced, was not unexpected, the full measure of its meaning does not dawn on the inner consciousness until it is given mature and deliberate thought. Then it is seen that this decision is the culmination of as gigantic a conspiracy against the liberties of the working class as was ever concocted in the annals of time. It is the loud-sounding voice of challenge from the hired mouthpiece of united capitalism, determined to stifle the voice of those who would dare represent those who toil. It is the concrete command of the plutocracy to the radicals of the nation-“Thus far shalt thou go.”

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Hellraisers Journal: How the Railroad Brotherhoods Won the Battle for the Eight-Hour Day

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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, Monday October 30, 1916
Washington, D. C. – The Brotherhoods and Adamson Act

The October edition of the International Socialist Review published two articles regarding the Railroad Brotherhoods and the Adamson Act, which we have re-published in today’s Hellraisers, see below. President Wilson signed the Adamson Act into law early in September just in time to prevent a national railroad strike set to begin on Labor Day.

From the cover of the Review, October 1916:

RR Worker, The Winner, ISR, Oct 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: Darrow Appears Before U. S. Supreme Court on Behalf of Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone

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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 October 14, 1906
Washington, District of Columbia – State Kidnapping Challenged

The Appeal to Reason of October 13th published a good part of the brief presented by Attorneys Murphy, Darrow, and Richardson on behalf of Fellow Workers Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone before the U. S. Supreme Court. The attorneys for the defense seek to free the men who were kidnapped from their homes as part of a plot perpetrated by the governors of Colorado and Idaho to deprive the men of their constitutional rights. The brief takes up an entire page of this issue of the Appeal, and we, therefore, offer this summary:

HMP Brief bf US Supreme Court, AtR, Oct 13, 1906

We ask and we believe that the action of the supreme court of the state of Idaho and of the circuit court of the United States, sitting in and for the state of Idaho, will be reversed, and that they will be directed to sustain the writs and direct the release of the prisoners, with an opportunity to them of returning to the state from which they were kidnaped by the conspiracy, confederation and agreement of the governors of the states of Idaho and Colorado, for the overthrow and in avoidance of a provision of the constitution of the United States and an act of congress made pursuant thereto.

Respectfully submitted.
JOHN H. MURPHY.
CLARENCE S. DARROW.
EDMUND F. RICHARDSON,
Counsel for Appellants and Plaintiffs in Error.

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Hellraisers Journal: Correspondent for Montana News Reports on Pinkerton Plot to Murder Steve Adams

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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, Saturday October 13, 1906
Wallace, Idaho – Steve Adams Fights Pinkerton Frame-Up

From Isaac Cowan in the October 11th edition of the Montana News:

Steve Adams On Trial
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Montana News Special Correspondent Reports
McPartland’s Murderous Schemes

Montana News, ed Ida Crouch-Hazlett, Oct 11, 1906

After a preliminary hearing before Probate Judge Boomer, Steve Adams is bound over to the district court, which meets Oct. 15. When I arrived in Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 26, the city was full of detectives, headed by the notorious James McPartland [McParland], alias Jim McKenna, of the Pinkerton-Mollie Maguirs [Molly Maguires] fame, who is now trying to railroad Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone, officials of the Western Federation of Miners, to the gallows. Steve Adams, who was arrested shortly after Harry Orchard’s alleged confession charging the miners’ officials with being implicated in the murder of ex-Governor Steunenburg, is now charged with the murder of an alleged claim jumper named Fred Tyler.

McPartland’s Sleuthing.

Adams had been relied upon by McPartland and Governor Gooding to corroborate Orchard’s confession, or the main part of it, and was being held in jail (with his wife, Mrs. Adams, being kept in the woman’s ward for that purpose.)

Adams denies that there was or is any truth in what McPartland and Gooding say he swore to, and says that the statements about his knowledge of the guilt of the officers of the miners was written up by McPartland or Gooding, or both; and he was compelled to swear to them by threats of Governor Gooding, who stated that if the people of Colorado got hold of him he would be mobbed and killed. All of this Adams has given out through signed documents, witnessed to by Mrs. Adams, his wife, and handed to J. W. Lillard, Adams’ uncle, a sick ranchman in Washington, and is now in the hands of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone’s attorneys. On application Adams was immediately released on a writ of habeas corpus, but was at once arrested for the murder of Fred Tyler.

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Hellraisers Journal: Steve Adams Brought to Wallace, Idaho, in Custody of Sheriff Sutherland

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These mine owners have demonstrated by
their acts that they do not hesitate
to adopt any means to carry out
their avowed intention of crushing the
organization of the miners.
-U. S. Senator Teller of Colorado

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday September 23, 1906
Wallace, Idaho – Adams Arrives to Face Charge of Murder

From The Idaho Daily Statesman of September 19, 1906:

ADAMS AND GUARDS ARRIVE IN WALLACE
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Prisoner Arraigned on Charge of Murder
and Preliminary Set for Thursday-
Newton Glover Arrested for Complicity in
Crime and Warrant Out for Others.
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(Special Dispatch.)

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WALLACE. Sept 18.-Sheriff Sutherland arrived in Wallace at noon today with Steve Adams, with whom he had driven across the country most of the way from Boise. The party left Moscow yesterday and drove to a small station east of Tekoa, where this morning they took the train for Wallace. The sheriff and Adams are considerably worn from the journey, but both are in good spirits. The sheriff succeeded in his undertaking of bringing Adams to Wallace from Boise without stepping outside the state. Adams was arraigned this afternoon on the charge of murdering John Doe Tyler in the St. Joe country. Newton Glover, an alleged accomplice of Adams and Jack Simpkins, was brought in on the same train. Mrs. Adams and children were also on the same train. They greeted Adams affectionately.

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Hellraisers Journal: Adams Spirited Away from Boise by Shoshone County Sheriff; Darrow Awaits Arrival in Wallace

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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, Tuesday September 18, 1906
Northern Idaho – Exact Location of Adams Unknown

From The Idaho Daily Statesman of September 14, 1906:

SHREWD SHERIFF FROM NORTH
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OFFICER SUTHERLAND SECRETLY DEPARTS FROM
BOISE WITH STEVE ADAMS IN CHARGE.
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Attorneys Darrow, Nugent and Morrison Apply
for Writs of Habeas Corpus Several Hours
Too Late-Start on Chase to Wallace-
Colorado Officers Are Baffled.
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Hellraisers Journal: Adams Discloses Truth About “Confession” and Prosecution’s Plot to Frame Haywood and Moyer

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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 September 16, 1906
Boise, Idaho – Adams to No Longer Corroborate Orchard’s Confession

From the Appeal to Reason of September 15, 1906:

ADAMS, CHIEF WITNESS, DISCLOSES CONSPIRACY
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Startling Developments in Moyer-Haywood Case
Dumfound the Prosecution.
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Miserable Plot is Laid Bare, and Mine Owners are Raising
Slush Fund of One Million Dollars to Defeat
Haywood for Governor of Colorado, Now That His
Election Seems Assured as a Result of Revelations Involving
the Governors of Two States in Unlawful Intrigue.
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By Telegraph to The Appeal to Reason.

Steve Adams, Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case of 1906-07, Darrow Collection

Denver, Colo., Sept. 9.-The above statement, sworn to by Stephen Adams and witnessed by his wife, was made public in the district court in Boise, Ida., Saturday afternoon, September 8th.

Adams, it has been claimed by the prosecution in the Steunenberg murder cases, would corroborate Harry Orchard’s confession, charging that the assassination of the former governor was committed by the officers of the Western Federation of Miners.

Adams told the story of his experience since his arrest last February, and if what he says is true, almost all of which is confirmed by his wife and uncle, some of the state officials of Idaho and Colorado will find themselves in a pretty tight place.

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Hellraisers Journal: Report to the Convention of the W. F. of M. by Acting President John C. Williams

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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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Monday June 18, 1906
Denver, Colorado – Response to Arrest of W. F. of M. Officers

WFM Executive Board, elected at 1905 Convention
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