Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: Maurice Becker on “When Strike Is Treason”

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There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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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:

Masses, When Strike Is Treason, M Becker, July 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for June 1916: Arizona Newspaper Revives Polly Pry

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There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thursday July 6, 1916
Mother Jones Defamed by Newspaper of Clifton, Arizona

Mother Jones, UMWJ, Feb 10, 1916

The Copper Era of Clifton, Arizona, took on both Mother Jones and Charles Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners, in a pair of articles published on June 2nd of this year. It is doubtful that the opinion of the kept press regarding Moyer’s supposed radicalism will weigh into the miners decision one way or the other when they gather at their convention later this month.

The Copper Era took note of the fact that Mother Jones came to Arizona to lend her support to Governor Hunt, friend of the copper miners, and that she is also a close associate of Charles Moyer, and has been for a very long time. In a long article, that newspaper revived the old charges made against Mother in 1904 by the scandal-sheet, Polly Pry. Those charges were then read into the Congressional Record in June of 1914 by Congressman Kindel of Colorado. The goal is to defame Mother Jones in eyes of working people-a waste of ink, as that tactic has been tried before and has never succeeded.
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