Hellraisers Journal: Annie Clemenc and Maggie Aggarto Arrested on the Copper Strike Picket Line in the Calumet District

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Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday September 15, 1913
Calumet District, Michigan – Annie Clemenc, Maggie Aggarto
   and Four Other Women Arrested on the Picket Line

From The Calumet News of September 11, 1913:

Annie Clemenc n Others Arrested, CNs p1, Sept 11, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: Socialist and Labor Star: “Hard Up”-Poem by Roxie Trent of Christian, Logan County, West Virginia

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Hard Up Poem by Roxie Trent, Huntington WV Lbr Str p4, Sept 12, 1913 —————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday September 14, 1913
“Hard Up”-Poem by Roxie Trent of Christian, Logan County, West Virginia

From the Huntington Socialist and Labor Star of September 12, 1913:

Hard Up Poem by R Trent, 1, Lbr Str p4, Sept 12, 19134, Hard Up Poem by R Trent, 2, Lbr Str p4, Sept 12, 19134,

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Hellraisers Journal: Profiles of Rebel Women: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Inez Haynes Gillmore, and Caroline Lowe

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Quote EGF Organize Women, IW p4, June 1, 1911—————

Hellraisers journal – Wednesday September 10, 1913 
Profiles of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Inez Haynes Gillmore, and Caroline Lowe

From The Progressive Woman of September 1913:

EGF Profile, Prg Wmn p11, Sept 1913—–
Inez Haynes Gillmore, Profile, Prg Wmn p11, Sept 1913—–
Caroline Lowe Photo n Profile, Prg Wmn p3, Sept 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: John Lawson Arrives in Trinidad; Frank Hayes and Mother Jones to Return Soon, UMW Officials Gathering

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Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday September 9, 1913
Trinidad, Colorado – John Lawson Arrives from Denver

From the Trinidad Chronicle-News of September 8, 1913:

Colorado John Lawson to Trinidad, T. Chc Ns p4, Sept 8, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Michigan Copper Miners’ Bulletin: The Story of a Strike Heroine, in Her Own Words

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Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday September 8, 1913
Heroine of the Michigan Copper Strike Tells a Story of Fighting Scabs

From the Miners’ Bulletin of September 6, 1913:

WFM Miners Bulletin MI 1913Annie Clamenc MI Strike Heroine, Mnrs Bltn p1, Sept 6, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones in Southern Colorado; Delagua Coal Miners Discharged; Gunthugs Threaten Union Hall

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Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege ed, Ab Chp III—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday September 7, 1913
Southern Colorado Coal Camps – Mother Jones Arrives; Union Miners 
Discharged

From the Denver United Labor Bulletin of September 6, 1913:

Mother Jones Arrives in So CO, Delagua Miners Discharged, Dnv ULB p1, Sept 6, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: Kearsarge, Michigan-Margaret Fazekas, Age 14, Shot in the Head by Deputies While Performing Picket Duty

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Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913—————-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday September 6, 1913
Kearsarge, Michigan – Young Margaret Fazekas Shot Down by Deputies

From The Calumet News of September 2, 1913:

MI Copper Strike Margaret Frazekas Shot, CNs p1, Sept 2, 1913MI Copper Strike Margaret Frazekas Shot, 2, CNs p1, Sept 2, 1913[…..]

Saturday September 6, 1913
Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan – Girl, fourteen, shot in head, not expected to live.

Disturbing stories of violence against the women and children in the Michigan Copper Country Strike Zone are making there way out of the area. A young fourteen-year-old girl was shot in the head when deputies opened fire on a strikers’ parade. The girl is Margaret Fazekas. She was shot near the Kearsarge shaft during the Labor Day parade by Sheriff Cruse’s armed deputies.She was rushed to the hospital and was not expected to live.

On September 4th, a guardsmen was so enraged by a woman waving a broom and cursing at him that he threatened her:

I’ll fix you so that you won’t handle a broom anymore!

The guard attempted to tie her to his horse for the purpose of dragging her along the ground. However, his plan was thwarted when more women came running to her aid, pelting the guardsmen with rocks and sticks.

Militiamen routinely ride their horses into the strikers who gather for any reason, and, by this practice, a small child has been injured in Laurium.

But it is for the children that the strike must go on, for as one woman said pointing to her children:

These are the ones we are striking for. You don’t want to see them bent and crippled before their time, do you?

Another woman joins the picket lines even though her husband is dead, killed in the mines leaving her with four young children. She said:

Men killed, company pay nothing. Many families get poor by strike, but maybe men win. I hope so.

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Miners Magazine: Appeal to the Labor Movement from Michigan Copper District Union No. 16

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Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Friday September 5, 1913
Hancock, Michigan – W. F. of M. District Union No. 16 Appeals to Labor Movement

From the Miners Magazine of September 4, 1913
-Dan Sullivan, C. E. Hietala, and John H. Walker Sign Appeal to Labor Movement:

WFM Miners Magazine p3, Sept 4, 1913Appeal fr MI WFM 16, Mnrs Mag p7, Sept 4, 1913

…..Now, we turn to you, the organized workers of this country, in our hour of need. We stand united, determined to win. We are fighting one of the richest mining corporations in the world. It is as heartless as it is rich.

We have nothing but empty hands, our wives and children. They are urging us on, helping in the struggle. A northern winter will soon be here. We must have food and fuel. We are fighting this battle for all. We are willing to endure any sacrifice. The copper barons hope to drive us back to the mines through the hunger of our wives and children That is the only thing that can defeat us. Bayonets do not scare us, and thugs won’t mine copper. 

If the mine managers of this district knew that the American labor movement was behingd us, that you would not see us defeated for the lack of bread, the fight would be won now.

Speak so that the copper kings and the world will know that you are behind us in this strike with your dollars as well as sympathies…..

[Emphasis added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Speaks on Labor Day to Miners at Thurber, Texas; Travels by Train to Trinidad, Colorado

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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday September 4, 1913
Mother Jones Speaks to Miners at Thurber, Texas; Travels to Trinidad

From the Fort Worth Record of August 31, 1913:

Mother Jones at Thurber TX f Lbr Day, Ft Worth Rec p1, Aug 31, 1913

From the Trinidad Chronicle-News of September 3, 1913:

Mother Jones Arrives in Trinidad CO, Chc Ns p5,  Sept 3, 1913

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Hellraisers Journal: International Socialist Review: The Michigan Copper Miners’ Strike by Edward J. McGurty, Part II

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Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday September 2, 1913
“Copper Country” of Michigan – Striking Copper Miners Standing Firm

From the International Socialist Review of September 1913:

The Copper Miners’ Strike
By Edward J. McGurty

[Part II of II]

MI Copper Strike McGurty, Miners Homes, ISR p153, Sep 1913

So far [the mine operators] have been unable to intimidate the miners. The men are standing firmly. Parades are held every day along the 28 miles which comprise the range. Meetings of from three to six thousand are held every day in Calumet, Hancock, South Range and Mass City. There is no sign of weakening on the part of the men. They are determined upon a victory. They will refuse to submit to the slavery of the Copper Kings any longer. Thirty years of it has been enough.

The principal bone of contention at present is the recognition of the union. The men have made up their minds on this point. The mine-ownes have also apparently done so. The struggle is on in earnest. The miners are up against tremendous odds. They have absolute solidarity in their ranks, however, and that means a great deal. They are going to win! The copper barons are already desperate!

August 5th. The enclosed affidavit was sent to Ferris on the 29th of July and Ferris has absolutely refused to take the troops from this county. They are still in Keweenaw county at this writing.

Hon. W. N. Ferris, Governor,
Lansing, Michigan.

I, John H. Hefting, sheriff of Keweenaw county, Michigan, hereby certify, that I was requested and urged by certain mining officials to call troops, and I refused as I did not see any necessity, inasmuch as there had been perfect peace and order and not a single infraction of the law committed since the strike commenced. The said mining officials urged me to get your permission to call upon General Abbey for troops, in case I needed them and not otherwise. My intention was not to call troops into this county. On July 29, 1913, several troops appeared at the boundary line, and I protested against troops being brought into this county as conditions did not require it. Whereupon one of the officers of the army stated to me that if I did not permit the troops to enter Keweenaw county at that time, that no matter how bad conditions became even though the location would burn down, they would not give any assistance thereafter. The telegram was made out by the attorney for the company and my attention was called to sign it. I requested them to give me time to consider the case at least one day, but their answer was that I must decide at once. Therefore I request you to withdraw all troops from this county.

Respectfully yours,
JOHN HEFTING,
Keweenaw County Sheriff.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this day, the 29th of July, 1913. My commission expires March 4, 1917.

]. A. HAMILTON,
Notary Public.

The newspapers here carried on a three-day campaign to form a “back-to-work” movement and yesterday got one of the company tools to act as chairman, surrounded on the platform by shift and trammer bosses, at a meeting called by the Calumet & Hecla Co., to appoint a committee from the workers to meet with the bosses, and as the chairman put it, find out on what terms the C. & H. would allow its employes to go back to work. The miners saw through the game immediately and refused to “fall” for the game. They started the cry of “scab” and left the hall for union headquarters.

Mother Jones arrived today [morning of August 5th] and was met at the depot by the strikers. They stood bare-headed in two lines two miles long, while she went through to the union hall. She refused to ride in an automobile which had been brought for her. Ten thousand strikers will pack the Palestra and neighboring halls tomorrow to hear her. She will then go over the range, addressing meetings in the various “locations.”

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