Hellraisers Journal: Paterson Jury Hung in Trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Quinlan Sent to Prison; Striker Madonna Killed

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

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday July 13, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – Trial of Miss Flynn, Quinlan to Prison, Striker Murdered

From Solidarity of July 12, 1913:

Paterson EGF Trial, Quinlan to Prison, Vincenzo Madonna killed, Sol p, July 12, 1913

From The Topeka State Journal of July 3, 1913:

Paterson, EGF n E Milholland, Tpk St Jr p8, July 3, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: From Solidarity: Justus Ebert and Ewald Koettgen on the Wonderful Paterson Silk Strike, Determined to Win

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Quote BBH Corporation Soul, Oakland Tb p11, Mar 30, 1909—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday May 28, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey – General Strike of Silk Workers Continues, Firm as a Rock

From Solidarity of May 17, 1913
-“The Wonderful Paterson Strike” by Justus Ebert

From Solidarity of May 24, 1913
-“Strikers Standing Firmly as a Rock” by Ewald Koettgen

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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.

[…..]

[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: 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: New York City Waiters’ Strike Collapses; I. W. W. Organizers Urge Strikers to “Live to Fight Another Day”

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Quote EGF, My Aim in Life, Spk Rv p7, July 8, 1909—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday January 29, 1913
New York, New York – Waiters’ Strike Collapses Under Policemen’s Clubs

From the Honesdale Citizen (Pennsylvania) of January 28, 1913:

WAITERS’ STRIKE COLLAPSES.
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Lack of Public Sympathy and Police Clubs
Causes of Failure.

EGF, NYC Waiters Strike, York Daily PA p1, Jan 28, 1913

New York, Jan. 27.-The general strike of the hotel workers, which was promoted and nursed by the agitators of the big Bill Haywood organization, the Industrial Workers of the World, has collapsed. The strike leaders admitted that the fighting spirit had oozed out of their followers and that within twenty-four hours waiters and cooks and others would be scrambling for their old jobs.

The organizers sent by the Industrial Workers of the World to show the hotel workers how to fight according to the tactics of Haywood and Ettor were the first to admit defeat. Patrick Quinlan, the general organizer, and Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the principal speechmaker, were hard at work trying to convince the leaders of the International Hotel Workers’ union that he who fights and runs away can live to fight another day.

Less astute perhaps than the professionals of the Industrial Workers of the World, the leaders of the Hotel Workers’ union were struggling at the executive committee meeting to prolong the strike, but they were told frankly by the Industrial Workers of the World strategists that the battle was lost and that terms had better be made as quickly as possible. There were a number of causes for the failure of the strike. Among them were an absence of public sympathy, the lukewarm attitude of 75 per cent of the union waiters satisfied with their pay and the discovery of the strikers that the police were not afraid to use their clubs.

After three days of window smashing, of assaults on nonunion waiters and of noisy demonstrations there was less work last night for the police and the private guards by whom most of the hotels and restaurants were heavily guarded.

[Newsclip added from York Daily (Pennsylvania) of January 28, 1913.]

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Hellraisers Journal: Rosa Caruso Greets Her Husband after Acquittal of Murder Charge with Baby Born While He Was Jailed

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

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday November 28, 1912
Salem, Massachusetts – Rosa Caruso Greets Husband after Release from Court Cage

From The Boston Daily Globe of November 27, 1912:

Mrs Giuseppe Rosa Caruso w Baby, Bst Dly Glb p4, Nov 27, 1912

From San Francisco’s L’Italia of November 26, 1912:

Ettor, Giovannitti, Caruso Acquitted, SF Litalia, p1, Nov 26, 1912
Completely acquitted, Lawrence’s working masses make an
enthusiastic demonstration to the three young Italian agitators.

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Hellraisers Journal: Trial of Joe Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti, and Joseph Caruso Ends; All Three Found “Not Guilty”

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Quote Joe Ettor, ed, Thank You, IW p1, Aug 29, 1912—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 27, 1912
Salem, Massachusetts – Ettor, Giovannitti, and Caruso Found “Not Guilty” 

From The Boston Daily Globe of November 26, 1912:

Ettor Verdict This Morn, Bst Dly Glb p1, Nov 26, 1912

Defendants were charged with murder in connection with the killing of Anna Lo Pizzo, martyred striker, during the Lawrence Textile Strike.

From The Boston Daily Globe, Evening Edition of November 26, 1912:

Ettor n G Aquit, Bst Eve Glb p1, Nov 26, 1912

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Ettor n G Released Joy, Bst Eve Glb p2, Nov 26, 1912

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Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on Trial of Ettor and Giovannitti at Salem: “They Are Putting Justice Itself on Trial.”

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Quote EGF, My Aim in Life, Spk Rv p7, July 8, 1909—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday October 27, 1912
Salem, Mass. – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn:
“It is a foolish court that will try to fool an awakened people.”

From The Tacoma Times of October 26, 1912:

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Tacoma Tx p5, Oct 26, 1912

BY H. P. BURTON.

SALEM, Mass., Oct. 26.—There is just one spot of light in the shadowy Salem court house where sit, in their iron-meshed cage, Joseph Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso, on trial for their lives and their cause. It is the grave, pale face of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Madonna of the women who slave.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is only a slip of a girl, 22. But she has been living a life for six years. She has gone from coast to coast, speaking for “the cause,” and suffering abuse, want and imprisonment, that the burden of the beaten-down may be lifted a little.

For a year now, with her baby clinging to her skirts, she has fought capitalism in the woolen trust town of Lawrence, regardless of winter cold or summer heat, picketing, helping, cheering and speaking.

And today she sees what this trial means not only to Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso, her comrades-in-arms, but, as she thinks, all of us, and indeed to all the world.

As she let her gaze float over Gallows hill, where they hanged the witches, she said:

They will not see, I fear—these cogs in the machine of justice—in just what sort of a way they are. They will not understand that they are not trying our leaders, but they are putting Justice itself on trial.

It is a foolish court that will try to fool an awakened people. It is a foolish court that does not release quickly those wrongly indicted men. For the anger of the American working man is awaken, it cannot be held in leash much longer, even by the strongest, leaders.

I wish I did not have to say it, but I have seen how in the past few weeks we have failed to hold the workers of Massachusetts and New York in check-how they have struck “in demonstration” against our advice and pleading. If we cannot hold these few thousand, how shall we be expected to keep calm a nation of them if they are aroused, as they surely will be if they are not given back their “lost leaders”?

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s pale face was even whiter than when she began speaking. She snatched up the little baby that had sat at her feet as she talked, and pressed him close to her.

[And she said:]

It’s for his sake and the other little ones like him that I hope it will not happen, that they will not make it HAVE to happen—babies are so helpless!

[Emphasis and paragraph break added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: B. T. W Prisoners Form Union Local at Lake Charles Jail, Louisiana

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Quote BBH re BTW LA White n Black Unity, ISR p106 , Aug 1912—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday September 14, 1912
Lake Charles Jail of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana – B. of T. W. Prisoners Form Union

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of September 12, 1912:

BATTLING B. T. W. FORM JAIL UNION

REBELLIOUS PRISONERS FORM UNION IN JAIL
-BLACK HOLE OF CALCASIEU IS LABOR’S RECRUITING GROUND
-NO COLOR LINE DRAWN IN PRISON-REBELS ARE RISING.

 

BTW Prisoners of Grabow Massacre at Lake Charles Jail, af July 7, 1912
B. of T. W. Prisoners, Lake Charles La.

On August 15th a charter was issued by the Brotherhood of Timber Workers to the following white and colored workers:

White: Pat Perkins, R. W. Perry, John Perry, L. Perry, J. M. Richley, Joe Rogers, J. H. Simpson, W. D. Smith, S. B. Slaydon, W. R. Stacey, Ben Sturgia, C. D. Woodard, Leon Zebeau, Chas. Zebeau, C. E. Jones, John Killen, C. Leblue, B. J. Lee, George M. Lacey, Ed. Lehman, J. W. Moor, W. A. Mathis, Frank McBride, R. Parkham, J. Pennington, Chas. Gibbons, Josh Perkins, Walter Delcour, Williams Davis, Andy Denby, A. L. Emerson, Will Estes, Ed. Eyell, Frank Farr, G. H. Gibson, G. M. Grim, J. H. C. Helton, C. Havens, C. C. Holley, Arthur Hammonds, R. V. Hennigan, W. E. Hollingsworth, H. L. McFillen, A. H. Burge, R. D. Burge, J. H. Baily, A. A. Bondreaux, J. W. Bowers, L. H. Brown, Waldon Cooley, W. A. Chatham, A. R. Cryar, A. F. Creed, Jeff Cooper, B. B. Collier, Tom Cooper, J. W. Callie, J. D. Perkins, Herman Slaydon, Charlie Hampton, O. P. Bell, John Hood.

Colored: Peter Blackman, Elisha Fowler, Jason Clark, Garfield Holcomb, Pink Morris, Silas Anderson, H. Green, Jim Cotton, Robert Chopin, Dennis Myles, Robert Johnson, Milton Mitchel, Robert Milton.

These boys compose the roll of honor making up the membership of Local Union, Jail No. 1, B. of T. W., office address, Parish Prison, Lake Charles, La. They also organized a local of the Socialist Party, Jail No. 1, with 54 members and both locals are still growing. Men are coming into the prison every day and joining, or sending in their applications. This is, indeed, the deathless spirit, the spirit that must and will conquer all before it. Dead, the souls of these boys will do a mightier work for the emancipation of their class than ever yet; imprisoned, yet their voices will be heard and, mingling with the cries of Ettor and Giovannitti, all the workers of the world will be awakened, triumphant the hosts of labor will arise and the social revolution be an accomplished fact. Truly did Edward Bellamy speak  when he said: “No masters class has ever learned anything from the experience of its predecessors and the capitalist class will be no exception to the rule.” Down here in the Land of Dixie the slugging committee of the capitalist class is still busy, just as it was in Lawrence, just as it is in Canada and San Diego,-power(?)-crazed, gold-drunk hyenas trying to slug and shoot back the onward upward march of the human race! Fools who base their system on a thug’s heroism and a detectives’s honor, this is what the capitalist class has already degenerated to, and this is the surest sign of a system’s fall. 

All that is now left for the working class to do to end its age-long misery is to unite and rise in ONE BIG UNION. 

RISE

Save Ettor, Giovannitti, Emerson, Lehman, and all the other hero lumberjacks now in the Black Hole of Calcasieu!

RISE!

Clan of Toil, awaken! Rebels of the South, arise! Workers of the World, unite! You have nothing but your chains to lose! You have a World to gain!

RISE!

Organize! Organize!! Organize!!!

COVINGTON HALL.

[Photograph and emphasis added.]

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