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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday August 17, 1913
Duluth, Minnesota – Frank Little Kidnapped by Thugs, Rescued by Strikers
From Solidarity of August 16, 1913:
Tag: Frank Little
Hellraisers Journal: From the Industrial Worker: “Should I Ever Be a Soldier”-New Song by Rebel Songwriter Joe Hill
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday April 12, 1913
Published in Latest Edition of I. W. W. Songbook
-“Should I Ever Be A Soldier” by Joe Hill
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of April 3, 1913:
Hellraisers Journal: Frank Little and Fellow Workers Head Out from Bakersfield Area to March on Denver to Fight for Free Speech
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday March 29, 1913
From Bakersfield, California – FWs March on Denver to Fight for Free Speech
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of March 27, 1913:
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Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: New Pamphlets Now Available from IWW Headquarters
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday December 28, 1912
New Pamphlets Now Available from I. W. W. Headquarters in Chicago
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of December 26, 1912:
On the Firing Line
Extracts from the Report of the General Executive Board
to the Seventh Annual Convention
of the Industrial Workers of the World
Held in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 17 to 27, 1912
-I. W. W. General Executive Board: Thomas Halcro
F. H. Little, Ewald Koettgen, George Speed
Ettor and Giovannitti Before the Jury
at Salem, Massachusetts, November 23, 1912
Hellraisers Journal: The Nation: “Children’s Crusade for Amnesty” by Mary Heaton Vorse, Grief on Parade in New York City
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 13, 1922
Mary Heaton Vorse on Children’s Crusade for Amnesty
From The Nation of May 10, 1922:
The Children’s Crusade for Amnesty
By MARY HEATON VORSE
A GROUP of travel-worn working women and their children paraded from the Grand Central Station up Madison Avenue. The young girls stared straight ahead of them; babies stumbled with fatigue. Women, carrying children, sagged along wearily. They carry banners. The little boy who walks on ahead has a firm mouth and holds his head up. His banner reads “A Little Child Shall Lead Them.” There are other banners, which read “A Hundred and Thirteen Men Jailed for Their Opinions”; “Eugene Debs Is Free-Why Not My Daddy?” One banner inquires “Is the Constitution Dead?” One young girl carries a banner, “My Mother Died of Grief.” One woman with a three-year-old baby holds a banner saying “I Never Saw My Daddy.”
Reporters, movie men, and members of the bomb squad accompany the band of women and children. This is a new sort of show. This is a grief parade. These are the wives and children of men serving sentences under the Espionage Act, the wives and children of political prisoners jailed for their opinions. Some of the men did not believe in killing, and some belong to labor organizations. Not one of them was accused of any crime. They are serving sentences from five to twenty years.
Their wives and children are on a crusade. They have come from Kansas corn-fields and from the cotton farms of Oklahoma, from New England mill towns, from small places in the Southwest. They have been through many cities. They are on the way to Washington to see the President of the United States.* They have come here showing their wounds and their humiliation. They have spread out before us their frugal, laborious days. With a terrible bravery they have displayed them so that you and I might see them and be moved—perhaps, and, perhaps, help.
Hellraisers Journal: Frank Little, IWW Organizer and Executive Board Member, Says: “Be Men. Don’t be a scab.”
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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday December 14, 1911
From Yale, Oklahoma, Frank Little Exhorts Men Not to Scab on Fellow Workers
From the Payne County Farmer (Yale, Oklahoma) of December 13, 1911:
The Explanation.
Editor Payne Co. Farmer: In the issue of Dec. 6 there was a letter from Texas, by Mrs. J. B. MacClain. She states that, in that county, the sawmills are idle for the want of men.
The sawmill worker of Texas and Louisiana have been fighting the lumber trust, trying to force them to pay living wages. There has been a strike on in that country for some time. All working men should stay away. Be men. Don’t be a scab.-F. H. Little, organizer of the I. W. W.
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[Photograph added.]
Hellraisers Journal: I. W. W. Calls for Convention to Form National Industrial Union of Lumber and Forest Workers
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday November 24, 1911
Recently Installed G. E. B. of I. W. W. Calls for Convention of Lumber Workers
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of November 23, 1911:
Hellraisers Journal: IWW Prisoners of Kansas City Free Speech Fight Paroled from Leeds Farm, Most Leave Town
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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 8, 1911
Kansas City, Missouri – Twenty-Four Fellow Workers Released from Leeds Farm
From The Kansas City Times of November 6, 1911:
THE I. W. W. SAY GOOD-BY.
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A Few of the Street Speakers Who
Remain Here Have Gone to Work.
Most of the twenty-four members of the Industrial Workers of the World who were paroled last Wednesday from the Leeds Farm have left the city for warmer climes. A few have obtained work in the city and say they will remain here until another free speech fight calls them away.
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Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: “Free Speech Fight Is on in Kansas City” by G. H. Perry
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday October 29, 1911
Kansas City, Missouri – Fellow Worker Frank Little Sent to County Farm
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of October 26, 1911:
The long threatened fight with the city authorities is on in real earnest. On Saturday, October 14th [Saturday], the blue coated minions of “law and order” came up to our open air meeting at Missouri and Main streets and without giving any warning arrested the speaker, F. H. Little. The then turned to other members and asked if they were leaders,. When they were informed that we had no leaders in the crowd they stated that being a member of the I. W. W. was enough, and so they arrested all who admitted membership. After laying in jail over Sunday the the seven I. W. W. men who were arrested were treated to a burlesque show in the shape of a kangaroo court presided over by Judge Burning. “His honor” listened to a cockroach business man telling that the thought that we were unfair (how horrible Archie) in our statements…
Fellow Worker Little asked for a jury trial which was denied. The “kangaroo” said, “I know what you men want and I don’t want to be bothered with you this winter and I am not going to stand for any stump speeches.” Little told the court why we were organized and the reason he wished a jury trial was so he could be tried in a real court….
Little then went on explaining to the judge the purposes of the I. W. W. and in the middle of a sentence the judge cut him off with “You are fined $25.00 and rest $10.00 each.” Little and the writer were the only ones allowed to say a word in our own defense. Fellow Workers [Albert V.] Roe, [J.] McGuire, [H. D.] Montgomery, [G. W.] Reeder and [Carl] Strobach were kangarooed without saying a word in their own defense…..
After we had gone back to the jail a delegation from the local saw his honor and after telling im that we intended to have free speech he decided to reconsider his former action and he discharged us all but Fellow Worker Little. …
Little left for county farm this morning…This attempt to do away with the selling of I. W. W. literature and street speaking must be met with determined opposition. Men are needed. We are sure they will be found.
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[Emphasis added.]
Hellraisers Journal: From the Industrial Worker: The I. W. W. Wins Complete Victory in Fresno Free Speech Fight
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday March 12, 1911
Fresno, California – I. W. W. Wins Complete Victory in Free Speech Fight
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of March 9, 1911:
JUST BEFORE THE VICTORY
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THE RESPECTABLE CITIZENS TALK
OF LYNCHING I. W. MEMBERS.
———-Fresno, Feb. 27, 1911.
The sheriff refuses to accept any more prisoners charged with violating a city ordinance, on the ground that the jail is overcrowded.
To prevent us from speaking on the streets, the police do not arrest us, but resort to clubbing and turning us over to the pinks, pimps and toughs.
Two men were beat up by the hoodlums today for speaking on the street. One of them was dragged half a block. The police pay no attention to the protests of the onlooking citizens against these fiendish practices.
One man openly informed us that we were going to be lynched tonight. The chief of police, who was standing near, studied the effect this remark had on us. He was rewarded with a “horse laugh.”
The people are inclining more and more in our favor. A large number of our papers were sold. On the 25th of this month the Citizens’ League sent a committee to the bull pen to ascertain our terms, which we stated to them. The committee pronounced these terms just a wise and promised to present them before the next meeting of the citizens. We haven’t heard from them since. If the present tactics are aimed to frighten us off the streets, then a mistake has again been made. This fight for free speech in Fresno will continue until we have free speech and are protected in the exercise thereof.
I. W. W. COMMITEE.
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