Hellraisers Journal: From The One Big Union Monthly: “First of May in Minneapolis” by E. W. Latchem, Part II

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BBH Quote re May Day, AtR p2, Apr 27, 1907———-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday June 3, 1920
Minneapolis, Minnesota – May Day-I. W. W. and A. F. L March Together

From The One Big Union Monthly of June 1920:

May Day in Mpl Sec Lundberg, OBU p6, June 1920

[Part II of II.]

Some of those in charge attempted to turn the speaking into a “campaign rally” to boost some local aspirants for different political offices and relegate all other speakers to the rear and have the crowd tired out before any genuine working class speakers could get the platform, and they succeeded to a certain extent; but when W. F. Dunne, editor of the Butte Daily Bulletin, managed to get the floor he lost no time in explaining how the Workers’ International Labor Day had been desecrated by those who had no other desire except to get into office, no matter how, and that those who would stoop to misuse Labor’s holiday would need watching.

May Day in Mpl Justice Is Dead, OBU p9, June 1920

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Hellraisers Journal: In Celebration of May Day 1918: a Drawing by the Great Walter Crane and a Poem by Big Bill Haywood

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You, O, Men and Women and Children of Labor,
You can end forever the wrongs your class has endured,
You have but to think within yourselves,
You have but to act within your class,
You must organize as you work together.
Think, Organize, Act Together.
Industrial Freedom will come to all.
-Big Bill Haywood

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday May 1, 1918
For May Day: Workers May Pole with Message from Bill Haywood

Workers May Pole for 1894 by Walter Crane:

May Day 1894, Workers May Pole by Walter Crane, Cartoons for Cause, 1907

 

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Hellraisers Journal: Labor Crucified in Pittsburgh; Mass Arrests of Electrical Workers and Machinists

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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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Monday June 12, 1916
From the American Socialist: Special Report from Pittsburgh, Part I

We Never Forget, Braddock Massacre, May 2, 1916_0

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