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Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 19, 1911
Bruceville, Texas – Monument Unveiled at Grave of Martin Irons
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of May 17, 1911:
LABOR FEDERATION UNVEILS MONUMENT
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Memory of Late Martin Irons Honored
at Bruceville-Missouri Editor Speaks.WACO, May 17.-Addresses were heard at morning session of the [Texas] State Federation of Labor convention today, delivered by D. J. Bell of Bells, Grayson county: Secretary-Treasurer J. T. Smith of the Missouri State Federation of Labor, and others. Most of the delegates went to Bruceville today at noon, where a monument to the memory of the late Martin Irons was unveiled the address being delivered by E. T. Behrens, editor of the Liberator at Sedalia, Mo…..
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[Photograph and emphases added.]
Note: The monument was erected at the grave of Martin Irons on Labor Day, September 5, 1910. The dedication inscribed thereon reads:
Martin Irons, Oct 7, 1827-Nov 17, 1900
Leader Gould Southwest Railroad Strike 1886
Fearless Champion of Industrial Freedom
Erected by the Missouri State Federation of Labor
and Affiliated Unions
Labor Day Sept 5, 1910
1910 Labor Day Ceremony at Graveside Monument to Martin Irons
-photograph taken by Fred Gildersleeve:
