Hellraisers Journals: Arturo Giovannitti Addresses Mass Meeting of Silk Strikers at Turn Hall, Paterson, New Jersey

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Quote Giovannitti, The Walker, Rest My Brother—————

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday March 6, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – Giovannitti Speaks to Silk Strikers at Turn Hall

From the Passaic Daily News of March 5, 1913:

Arturo Giovannitti Speaks at Paterson, Ps Dly Ns p1, Mar 5, 1913

The first move toward a settlement of the silk strike in Paterson came last night, when, at a meeting of delegates from dyers and broad silk weavers, demands were formulated for presentation to manufacturers today. These demands, in brief, are:

Abolition of the four-loom system and and eight-hour day at the same price now paid per week for the dyers…..

Arturo Giovannitti, I. W. W. leader, who was recently tried and acquitted in Lawrence, Mass., on a charge of murder in connection with the strike riots in that city, arrived in Paterson this morning shortly after 11 o’clock. He went at once to Turn Hall where he addressed nearly 5,000 strikers, speaking first in Italian and then repeating his speech in English. 

Giovannitti urged the strikers to stand by their action in walking out, saying that they were bound to receive their rights and that their demands would be granted. He was received as a hero of the “cause,” with much applause. He was introduced by Carlo Tresca, the I. W. W. leader who was arrested last week with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Patrick Quinlan. He did not advocate violence.

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[Emphasis added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: International Socialist Review: “New York Garment Workers and the Protocol” by Phillips Russell

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Quote Mother Jones to Philly Shirtwaist Makers Dec 19, NY Call Dec 21, 1909—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday March 3, 1913
New York, New York – The Striking Garment Workers and The Protocol

From the International Socialist Review of March 1913:

New York Garment Workers and the Protocol
-Phillips Russell
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NYC Garment Workers Striker Arrested, ISR p649, Mar 1913

The New Disease: Protocolic

As this is written, the great strike of the garment workers in New York is in its seventh week and, according to present indications, it may last even longer than the historic struggle of the cloakmakers in 1910, which endured for nine weeks.

At present the garment workers’ strike seems to be suffering from a bad attack of the new industrial ailment that might be described as the “protocolic.” Twice the officials of the United Garment Workers’ Union, who pulled the strike, have tried to get an agreement approved which involved the signing of a protocol, but both times got severe jolts from the strikers as a whole who made known their opinions of compromise in no uncertain tones. The attempt to induce the strikers to accept the protocol has so far produced little but dissension and has had much to do with smothering the spirit of the workers which at first was militant and aggressive.

The waist makers have already gone back to work under the terms of a protocol, though a considerable part of them did so reluctantly, and so great opposition was manifested towards it at one meeting in Cooper Union that a serious outbreak was narrowly averted.

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Hellraisers Journal: Big Bill Haywood Will Be Jailed Whenever He Arrives in Paterson Is Threat of Chief of Police Bimson

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Quote BBH re Capitalist Class, Lbr Arg p4, Mar 23, 1911—————

Hellraisers Journal – Friday February 28, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – Chief of Police Bimson Threatens Arrest of Haywood

From The Boston Evening Globe of February 27, 1913:

Paterson NJ to Jail BBH, Bst Glb p2, Feb 27, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Released on Bail; Tresca and Quinlan Kept Behind the Bars of the Paterson Jail

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Quote EGF, Work for Justice Despite Hardships, Tacoma Tx p7, Dec 29, 1909—————

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday February 27, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – Miss Flynn Released; Tresca and Quinlan Remain in Jail

From the Passaic Daily News of February 26, 1913:

EGF Bailed Out, Ps Dly Ns p1, Feb 26, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: Paterson Police Scatter Strike Meeting; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Tresca and Quinlan Arrested at Turn Hall

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Quote EGF, Heaven n Hell, ISR p617, Jan 1910—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday February 26, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – Police Invade Turn Hall and Arrest Strike Leaders

From the Asbury Park Evening Press (New Jersey) of February 25, 1913:

EGF Arrested, Asbury Prk Prs p1, Feb 25, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: 15,000 Silk Workers of Paterson, New Jersey, Will Be Affected by General Strike to be Led by Haywood’s IWW

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Quote BBH re Capitalist Class, Lbr Arg p4, Mar 23, 1911—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday February 25, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – General Strike of Silk Workers Planned by Industrial Workers

From The Boston Daily Globe of February 24, 1913:

Paterson Silk Workers to Strike, Bst Glb p9, Feb 24, 1913

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of February 20, 1913
-Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World:

IWW Preamble, IW p3, Feb 20, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: From IWW’s Industrial Worker and Solidarity, Updates on Three Strikes: Merryville, Little Falls, and Akron

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Quote BBH re Capitalist Class, Lbr Arg p4, Mar 23, 1911—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday February 24, 1913
Updates on Three Strikes: Merryville, Little Falls and Akron

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of February 20, 1913
-Covington Hall on Merryville, Louisiana, Lumber Workers’ Strike
-Joseph J. Ettor on Prisoners of Little Falls, Massachusetts, Textile Strike

Merryville Strike, Little Falls Prisoners, by C Hall n Ettor, IW p1, Feb 20, 1913

From Solidarity of February 22, 1913
-“20,000 Rubber Workers Revolt in Akron! I. W. W. in Full Control.”

Akron Rubber Strike IWW in Control, Sol p1, Feb 22, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: From the International Socialist Review: “The New York Garment Workers” by Mary E. Marcy, Part III

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Rose Schneiderman Quote, Stand Together to Resist Mar 20, NY Independent p938, Apr 1905—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday February 5, 1913
New York, New York – The Garment Strike by Mary Marcy, Photos by Paul Thompson

From the International Socialist Review of February 1913:

THE NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS
By MARY E. MARCY

Photographs by Paul Thompson, New York.

[Part III of III]

NY Garment Workers, Type of Striker, ISR p586, Feb 1913

Unlike the Lawrence strike, the strike of the New York garment workers is from the top DOWN; that is the union officials ordered the strike and have held the reins in their hands ever since. Without doubt they are trying to serve the strikers, but it is our opinion that they would build more permanently in permitting the strikers themselves to have the deciding voice in their own affairs; in teaching them self-reliance and class solidarity.

But the workers are finding out many things for themselves. They are thrilling with a new sense of power; they are learning the joy that comes when workers of whatever race or creed fight side by side in a great class struggle. The hope of victory and achievement is in the air and it is doubtful whether they will obey any orders from the union officials if their employers do not grant them appreciable benefits.

The heart of every true Socialist is with the strikers in this fight. We believe that the strike is a valuable form of direct action that teaches working class self-reliance and solidarity better than anything else. It teaches the workers to conduct their own fights. It brings out the class character of all existing social institutions. It teaches above all things, the necessity of revolutionary class unionism.

TEXT NY Garment Workers, Victory for 20 th Waist Makers, ISR 588, Feb 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: From the International Socialist Review: “The New York Garment Workers” by Mary E. Marcy, Part II

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Rose Schneiderman Quote, Stand Together to Resist Mar 20, NY Independent p938, Apr 1905—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday February 4, 1913
New York, New York – The Garment Strike by Mary Marcy, Photos by Paul Thompson

From the International Socialist Review of February 1913:

THE NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS
By MARY E. MARCY

Photographs by Paul Thompson, New York.

[Part II of III]

NY Garment Workers, White Goods Strikers, ISR p585, Feb 1913

The thugs employed by the shop bosses have proved very energetic and reliable. They have worked early and late beating up strikers whenever possible, starting trouble and blaming it on the workers, while the police stood by (or took a hand) to see that nobody attacked or injured them.

During the first week in January the union officials conferred with the employers relative to a settlement of the strike, but the New York Call reports that all negotiations were broken off when the employers insisted upon a return of the strikers to the shops pending an investigation of the conditions in the trade by a special commission to be appointed for that purpose. The union officials declared that under no circumstances would “they order the men to return to work” pending an investigation or arbitration of their demands.

As the pickets began to suffer at the hands of the company guards, it was decided to take a lesson from the strikers at Lawrence, Mass., and chain picketing was employed for the first time in New York City.

Ten thousand pickets were asked to report each day, starting to work on the “Chain Picket Line” at 5 :00 o’clock in the morning, to pass constantly in a steady stream of pedestrians before the strikebound shops.

On the day of the inauguration of the Chain Picket plan, the unions held various meetings which were well attended by the strikers. Hugh Frayne urged a general strike in every branch of the needle and garment industries, promising the support of the A. F. of L. while Abe Cahan closed one meeting begging the strikers to be true to the American Federation of Labor. He urged them to carry an A. F. of L. card in one pocket and a Socialist party card in the other (that is to work for class organization on one side and craft division on the other.)

This is very different from the calls of the Industrialists, all of whom insist upon a CLASS UNION card on the industrial field and a Socialist party card to represent their class interests upon the political field.

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Hellraisers Journal: International Socialist Review: Mr. Block Can Now Be Found in Pages of the Spokane Industrial Worker

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Quote Joe Hill, Mr Block Got Lucky, LRSB 36th ed, 1995—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 2, 1913
Mr. Block by 
Ernest Riebe Now Found in Pages of the Spokane Industrial Worker

From the International Socialist Review of February 1913:

Mr Block fr Spokane IW, ISR p595, Feb 1913

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