Hellraisers Journal: I. W. W. and Socialists Leaders Coming to New Castle for Labor Day Celebration

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If the plutocrats begin the program,
we will end it.
-Eugene V. Debs

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 12, 1906
New Castle, Pennsylvania – Debs and DeLeon to Appear Together

From the New Castle Herald of August 11, 1906:

LEADERS OF SOCIALISM COMING
TO NEW CASTLE
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(Four of the Orators Who Will “Spell-Bind”
at Cascade Park on Labor Day)

St John, Sherman, New Castle PA, Coming for Labor Day, Aug 11, 1906

DeLeon, Debs, New Castle PA, Coming for Labor Day, Aug 11, 1906
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Hellraisers Journal: Attorney Keyes Describes Arrests of Strike Leaders Without Warrants All Along the Mesabi

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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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Wednesday July 26, 1916
From The Labor World: “Facts Regarding Strike,” Part II

From the Duluth Labor World of July 22nd:

FACTS REGARDING STRIKE BECLOUDED
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Duluth Attorney Scores Mining Company Police,
Courts and Daily Press.
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LEADERS ARRESTED WITHOUT GOOD CAUSE
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Fate of Republic Hangs Upon Settlement
of Trouble on Range, He Says.
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John Arnold Keyes, Labor World, Sep 12, 1896

The real facts concerning the strike of the miners on the Mesaba range have been beclouded by misrepresentation and much prejudice aroused against the miners according to Attorney John A. Keyes of Duluth, who is acting as counsel for some of the leaders who have been placed under arrest. Mr. Keyes denounces the mining corporation police, the “gunmen” as termed by the miners, and the courts and daily press in part. Stories from the range have been highly colored Mr. Keyes declares, and so for the sake of justice, he has made the following statement regarding the cause and development of the strike and conditions up to the present time [Part II of statement by Attorney Keyes]:

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