Solidarity Forever
for the Union makes us strong!
-Ralph Chaplin
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 20, 1916
From Solidarity: The I. W. W. Organizes the Mesabi
From this week’s edition of Solidarity:
Somebody Has to Get Out of the Way
Friday August 3, 1906
From The Worker: Debs on Industrial Unionism
Over the next for days we offer the response made by Eugene V. Debs to the questions posed by the New York Worker regarding the debate on the relation of the Socialist Party of America to the trades unions.
The Worker introduces what it calls a symposium:
The question of the relation of the Socialist Party to the trade unions having again attracted attention within our ranks, The Worker has inaugurated a symposium to which representative comrades are being invited to contribute, setting forth various points view.
Thursday July 27, 1916
From The Masses: “A strike will be treason!”
The Capitalist’s Best Dream from this month’s edition of The Masses:
Continue reading “Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: Maurice Becker on “When Strike Is Treason””
Wednesday July 12, 1916
Duluth, Minnesota – Miss Flynn Meets with Local I. W. W. Leaders
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, prominent I. W. W. speaker and organizer, was in Duluth yesterday and is expected to leave today tor the strike zone on the range to assume an active part in the cause of the insurgent range miners.
The appearance of Miss Flynn and Haywood’s “Declaration of War” against the “United States Steel corporation and independent mining companies of Minnesota,” which is in part an organization appeal for funds with which to continue the range strike, were yesterday’s chief developments in the I. W. W. situation as related to this city.
Miss Flynn registered at the Hotel Holland, giving her residence as New York city.
Continue reading “Hellraisers Journal: FromThe Duluth News Tribune: “Elizabeth Flynn Arrives to Stir Up More Strife””
Monday July 2, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Cananea Strike, Part II
Friday June 30, 1916
Mesabi Iron Range, Minnesota – More Arrests in Miners’ Strike
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday December 1, 1915
From the International Socialist Review:
Comrades Ralph Chaplin and Big Jim Larkin Remember Joe Hill
This month’s edition of the Review honors the memory of Joe Hill who was murdered by the state of Utah on Friday, November 19th.
Joe Hill, charcoal drawing by L. Stanford Chumley:
Hellraisers Journal, Monday November 29, 1915
Chicago, Illinois-
The Body of Fellow Worker Joe Hill Reduced to Ashes
In his Last Will, FW Joe Hill wrote:
My body? Oh! If I could choose
I would to ashes it reduce
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.
In accordance with the wishes of our Rebel Songwriter, Hill’s body was taken to the crematory at Graceland Cemetery on Friday, November 26th, and cremated. Ralph Chaplin has provided a moving description of the cremation procedure:
The coffin lid was raised for the last time to permit final identification. The attendants looked to me as committee spokesman for word to proceed. I bowed my head. The casket was wheeled to the doors of the blast chamber, which creaked open to receive it. The steel doors creaked together, and the tiny room was all white again. Only the roar of the fire blast could be heard, growing louder and louder. We could hardly bear it.
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 28, 1915
From Solidarity:
The Joe Hill Edition: “Don’t Waste Anytime Mourning!”
The latest edition of the I. W. W. newspaper, Solidarity, is dedicated to Joe Hill and features the following cartoon, penned by Ralph Chaplin:
According to the cartoon, the firing squad is made up of the five members of the Utah Board of pardons, which includes Governor Spry, Attorney General Barnes, and the three members of the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Straup, and Associate Justices Frick and McCarty. As the money power directs the state-sanctioned murder of Fellow Worker Hill, the rising sun of Organization appears over the prison wall.
Below Chaplin’s drawing is a banner with FW Hill’s farewell message:
Don’t Waste any Time in Mourning-Organize
Wednesday November 24, 1915
Chicago, Illinois-
Body of Fellow Worker Joe Hill Arrives on Train from Salt Lake City
The body of Joe Hill, accompanied by Fellow Worker Bert Lorton, arrived by train from Salt Lake City yesterday. On hand at the Northwestern Depot to take charge of the of the remains of the Rebel Songwriter was a committee from the national headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World, which included another rebel poet and songwriter, Ralph Chaplin. Chaplin states that arrangements are underway for the funeral of Joe Hill and that his body will cremated according to Hill’s wishes as expressed in his “Last and Final Will.”
The will was written by FW Hill in the form of a poem, now being published in newspapers across the nation. The following is from a Kansas newspaper, The Salina Evening Journal, edition of November 22nd:
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