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Hellraisers Journal: Haywood Wins Thousands of Votes for Governor of Colorado While Facing the Gallows in Idaho

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Have courage and energy;
they may put us in jail,
but imprisonment is not defeat.
Yours for economic freedom,
Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho.
-WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 25, 1906
Colorado Socialists and Unionists Cast Their Votes for Haywood

Colorado Election Results from the Montana News of November 22nd:

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Haywood for CO Governor, AtR, Aug 25, 1906

Returns very incomplete. Enough to show more than 20,000 for Haywood and the Socialist ticket. Grand Junction goes 500 for Haywood, Telluride over 450 for Haywood. Great frauds every where, especially in Denver, where Socialist watchers were thrown out. In some places Socialists were prevented from voting.

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Hellraisers Journal: Messages from Comrade Haywood, Socialist Candidate for Governor of Colorado

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Have courage and energy;
they may put us in jail,
but imprisonment is not defeat.
Yours for economic freedom,
Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho.
-WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 4, 1906
From Ada County Jail, Idaho – Big Bill Campaigns for Governor

Debs in Denver Nov 5, AtR, Nov 3, 1906

In the latest issue of the Appeal to Reason we find messages from William D. Haywood to the people of Colorado. These messages were sent out to the Appeal by Big Bill from behind the bars of the Ada County Jail where the Socialist candidate for Governor resides awaiting trial in an attempted frame-up on a charge of having murdered the ex-Governor of Idaho. Also found was a notice announcing a meeting with Eugene Debs in Denver on Monday, November 5th, the day before the election.

Haywood Denounces Democrats

Haywood Denounces Plot of Democrats
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“No Compromise in Colorado!” is Still the Slogan Which the Socialist Candidate for Governor of Colorado Sends from His Prison Cell in Idaho to the Loyal Comrades of the Centennial State.

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Haywood to voters of CO, AtR, Nov 3, 1906Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kansas.

I have just received information to the effect that Alva Adams, democratic candidate for governor of Colorado, in his canvass is reading telegrams purporting to be from my representatives. I desire to say to the working class of Colorado that no telegram or message of any description to Alva Adams or any one of his class has been authorized by me. Moreover, no one but the state committee of the Socialist party is empowered to speak for me politically. In every conversation I have had on the subject, in everything I have written, I made it distinctly understood that there shall be NO COMPROMISE IN COLORADO. I accepted the nomination in good faith. There has been a magnificent campaign made. I stand or fall by the decision of my class-the wage-earners. Union men and women, fellow-workers, Socialists, I have never betrayed you-and, by the Almighty, I never shall. I am with you in this fight to abolish special privileges, to establish equal opportunities, to insure justice, life and liberty.

Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho, Oct. 20.

Yours to a finish,
WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.

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Hellraisers Journal: How A Cold Storage Egg Inspired Organization of Domestic Workers’ IU, Part II

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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, Thursday September 28, 1916
Denver, Colorado – Jane Street on Housemaids’ Union

Jane Street, Baltimore Sun, Sept 24, 1916

The Denver’s Domestic Workers’ Industrial Union, Local No. 113 of the Industrial Workers of the World was founded last spring by Miss Jane Street. Today we offer part two (of two parts) of an article about that union and its tactics from The Washington Post of September 24, 1916:

How A Cold Storage Egg Started
The Servant Girls Union (Part II)
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Miss Jane Street, organizer of the Housemaids’ Union, speaking of its purposes, said for publication in this newspaper:

Of all the abused people on earth none is worse treated than the general housemaid. The majority of housewives follow an aged tradition of looking down on those who serve them and their families and refuse to practice patience or give counsel or regard the women they hire as human beings with like impulses, like passions, like aims and hopes as their own.
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Hellraisers Journal: Biography of William D. Haywood, Socialist Candidate for Governor of Colorado

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Gabbertized capital must die that
a free people may live!
-Big Bill Haywood

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Hellraisers Journal, Saturday September 22, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: Bill Haywood, A Man of the Masses

From today’s edition of the Appeal to Reason, we find the story of the life of William D. Haywood, candidate of the Socialist Party of Colorado for the office of governor of that state. Comrade Haywood, Secretary-Treasure of the Western Federation of Miners, received his party’s nomination for governor despite being a prisoner in the Ada County Jail of Boise, Idaho.

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Written for the APPEAL TO REASON
BY WALTER HURT.
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WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD,
Candidate for Governor.

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William D. Haywood, Socialist candidate for governor of Colorado, comes rightfully by his revolutionary spirit; for it is a fact, although one to which, being a modest man, he seldom and reluctantly refers, that he is directly descended from a gallant Continental rebel. But the pride of such ancestry, instead of making of him an arrogant snobocrat, as is the case in too many instances, imbues him with the idea that he can best honor his liberty-loving forbear by being an uncompromising democrat in the fundamental meaning of the term.

Comrade Haywood was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 4, 1869, and to him belongs the unique distinction of being the first Gentile male child born within the borders of Zion.

From his earliest days Haywood was dedicated to the mining craft. His first job, when he was nine years old, was with his step-father on the Russian (!) Mine, Ophir, Utah, as tool-nipper and roustabout.

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Hellraisers Journal: “Educate and Agitate!” Mother Jones Speaks at Labor Day Picnic in Evansville, Indiana

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The miners need no angel.
They are living in hell
and they want to raise hell.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday September 6, 1916
Evansville, Indiana – Labor Day Speech of Mother Jones

From the Evansville Courier of September 5, 1916:

WILSON AND KERN LABOR’S FRIENDS
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Mother Jones Tells 10,000, Gathered for Labor Day,
Their Duty to Re-elect Them
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HAVE PROVED THEIR WORTH
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“Educate and Agitate” Is Her Remedy to Bring About
Further Social Reforms
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Tells of Her Work in West Virginia and Colorado
in Behalf of Miners
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Hellraisers Journal: Big Bill Haywood, Socialist for Governor, Obstruction to the Demo-Republico Party

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Will we win? We can’t lose!
Every socialist vote gained
is a victory for humanity.
-Big Bill Haywood
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Hellrasiers Journal, Sunday August 26, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: Big Bill Haywood, Socialist for Governor

From this week’s Appeal, a drawing by Ryan Walker:

Haywood for CO Governor, AtR, Aug 25, 1906
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Hellraisers Journal: Appeal to Reason to Colorado Voters: Socialists or Demo-Republicans of the Mine Owners Association?

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Dems and Rpbs, AtR, Aug 8, 1906

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday August 9, 1906
Ada County Jail, Idaho – Haywood, Candidate for Governor of Colorado

From the Appeal to Reason of August 4, 1906:

Haywood for Gov, AtR, Aug 4, 1906
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Hellraisers Journal: Haywood’s Nomination for Governor Arouses Enthusiasm Throughout Centennial State.

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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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Tuesday July 24, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: Colorado Socialists Electrified

1906 Elections, Haywood for Colorado Governor, IWW Poster

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Hellraisers Journal: Socialist Party of Colorado Nominates Idaho Prisoner, William D. Haywood, for Governor

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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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Sunday July 8, 1906
Denver, Colorado – Socialist Party Nominates State Ticket

From The Topeka Daily Capital of July 7, 1906:

Haywood, Darrow Collection


COLORADO REDS NOMINATE
HAYWOOD FOR EXECUTIVE
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If Elected and Release From Caldwell Jail
Is Refused, Would March to Idaho in Force.
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SNATCH HIM FROM TEETH OF
DOGS OF CAPITALISM
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Denver, July 6.-It has just transpired that the Socialist party of Colorado held a convention in this city on the Forth of July and nominated a full state ticket, headed by William D. Haywood, secretary-treasure for the Western Federation of Miners, now in prison in Idaho, for Governor…
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