Tag: Scabs

Hellraisers Journal: Smiling Joe Ettor, Long Expected, Arrives on the Mesabi, Finds Conditions Deplorable.

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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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Sunday July 30, 1916
Hibbing, Minnesota – Joe Ettor Speaks to Striking Miners

Joe Ettor Speaks in Boston for Joe Hill, Globe, Nov 8, 1915, no text, smaller


From The Duluth News Tribune of July 27, 1916:

STRIKERS AT HIBBING OPEN DOORS TO PUBLIC
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Non-Members Hear Speakers- Joseph Ettor,
Long Expected, Arrives on Scene-
Says conditions Are Deplorable.
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HIBBING, July 26.-With two of their foremost leaders on the scene the I. W. W. here made a change in tactics today when they abandoned their former secretive methods and opened the doors of Workers’ hall to the public to hear speeches on the strike situation as viewed by the strikers. Joseph Ettor, who gained notoriety for his share in various eastern strikers, arrived here this afternoon by automobile from Virginia, joining Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who addressed a meeting here last night.
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Hellraisers Journal: Pickets Organized at Hibbing, Miners Pour into Union HQ for Membership Cards

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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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Wednesday June 28, 1916
Hibbing, Minnesota – Striking Iron Miners Issue Demands

MN Iron Miners Strike, IWW Cards, DNT June 28, 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: Mine Owners of Cripple Creek Prepare to Replace Scabs with Imported Labor

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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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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 10, 1906
From The Labor World: George Shoaf on the Cripple Creek Situation

' Alliance Terror in Cripple Creek Strike

From the Duluth Labor World of June 9, 1906:

MINE COMPANY STORES
AND IMPORTED LABOR
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Mine Owners Association of Cripple Creek
Now Preparing to Discharge Scabs
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Fellows Who Helped to Deport Union Men
to Be Dismissed By Mine Bosses.
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BY GEORGE H. SHOAF.
Staff Correspondent Appeal to Reason.
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Colorado Mine Owners Ass by Ryan Walker, AtR, Jul 30, 1904

Denver, Colo., June 7.-I just returned from my trip to the Cripple Creek district this morning. Conditions commercially in that community are really worse than were pictured in this week’s Appeal. The howls from the business men are loud and long. On every street corner groups of men gather and discuss the situation and outlook. In the restaurant conversationalists openly threw off the mask and spoke their mind. They cannot sell their possessions and they have no place to which they can go. They are barred from all other western mining camps-and they dislike to return east and take chances with the unemployed. Where I stayed at night-and I changed rooming houses every night-the men about the stove talked hard times, cursed their luck and admitted their folly in helping the Mine Owners’ association drive the Western Federation from the district.

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