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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday June 11, 1914
“In Memory of Labor’s Day” – “Monster Parade May 30” – Mother Jones Speaks
From the Seattle Union Record of June 6, 1914:
[Parade forms on University, near Labor Temple]
[Second section of parade passes Third Avenue and University]
[Mother Jones Speaks}
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday June 5, 1914
Excerpts from “Class War in Colorado” by Max Eastman
From The Masses of June 1914:
CLASS WAR IN COLORADO
Max Eastman
[Illustrated by M. H. Pancoast, John Sloan, and Art Young]
“FOR EIGHT DAYS it was a reign of terror. Armed miners swarmed into the city like soldiers of a revolution. They tramped the streets with rifles, and the red handkerchiefs around their necks, singing their war-songs. The Mayor and the sheriff fled, and we simply cowered in our houses waiting No one was injured here-they policed the streets day and night. But destruction swept like a flame over the mines.” These are the words of a Catholic priest of Trinidad.
“But, father” I said, “where is it all going to end?”
He sat forward with a radiant smile.”War!” he answered. “Civil war between labor and capital!” His gesture was beatific.
“And the church-will the church do nothing to save us from this?”
“Yes, this is Colorado,” he said. “Colorado is ‘disgraced in the eyes of the nation’-but soon it will be the Nation!“
I have thought often of that opinion. And I have felt that soon it will, indeed, unless men of strength and understanding, seeing this fight is to be fought, determine it shall be fought by the principals with economic and political arms, and not by professional gunmen and detectives.
Many reproaches will fall on the heads of the Rockefeller interests for acts of tyranny, exploitation, and contempt of the labor laws of Colorado-acts which are only human at human’s worst. They have gone out to drive back their cattle with a lash. For them that is natural. But I think the cool collecting for this purpose of hundreds of degenerate adventurers in blood from all the slums and vice camps of the earth, arming them with high power rifles, explosive and soft-nosed bullets, and putting them beyond the law in uniforms of the national army, is not natural. It is not human. It is lower, because colder, than the blood-lust of the gunmen themselves.
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday April 3, 1914
Artwork by Sloan, Glintenkamp, and Young Depicts Cossacks and Unemployed
From The Masses of April 1914:
“Shall We Have a State Constabulary in New York?” by John Sloan
Discussing Pennsylvania Cossacks by H. J. Glintenkamp
Mill Owner Wants Three-Year-Old to Replace Father by Art Young
“Calling the Christian Bluff [Concerning Unemployment]” by John Sloan
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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday April 2, 1914
“The Kanawha Striker” by Paint Creek Miner & Drawing by Charles Winter
From The Masses of April 1914:
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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday February 12, 1914
Drawing of Mother Jones by Art Young: “Come On, You Hell-Hounds!”
From The Masses of February 1914:
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday January 29, 1904
Pennsylvania and Colorado – Hundreds of Newly Made Widows and Orphans
From The Rocky Mountain News of January 27, 1904:
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday December 6, 1913
“The Miner” by Charles A. Winter
From the International Socialist Review of December 1913:
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday November 15, 1913
“Little Children of the Poor” by Ellis B. Harris
From the Michigan Miners’ Bulletin of November 11, 1913:
Little Children of the Poor
by Ellis B. HarrisLittle children of the poor,
My heart goes out to you.
Little lives that must endure
Where miseries accrue;
In the factories and mills
There robbed of play and hearth
Suffering a world of ills
For parasites of wealth.Little children of the poor,
You, tender, precious flowers,
Blooms for gardens sweet and pure,
Yet robbed of playtime hours.
Is it strange that blood runs wild
And hands are clenched in wrath
When we contemplate a child
Upon the thorn strewn path?Little children of the poor,
Brave hearts shall place the blame
For the lives that you endure,
And point the nations’s shame.
Boasting here of Freedom’s reign
And scorning royal commands,
Forging them a master’s chain
To shackle baby hands.Little children of the poor,
Pearls for trampling swine,
Cast and mired that they secure
The wealth from mill and mine.
There are those who hear the call
From far off Galilee,
Heeding, until Mammon fall
And you, His Jewels, are free.Little children of the poor,
A future day shall break,
When no one can e’er secure
Your lives for profit sake;
When the people’s rule shall fill
The world with melody,
And childhood’s joys and laughter thrill
The world with ecstasy.
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday November 2, 1913
Cover Art by Arthur Machia: “The Blanket Stiff”
From the International Socialist Review of November 1913:
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Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 23, 1913
Proper Sphere of Working Girls, Commentary by John Sloan and E. O. Jones
From The Masses of May 1913:
“Circumstances” Alter Cases by John Sloan
-“Positively disgusting! It’s an outrage to public decency to allow such exposure on the streets!”
The Society for Curtailing the Pleasures of Working Girls
-by Ellis O. Jones
