Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 28, 1917
From the International Socialist Review: The Harvest Worker
From The Masses of October 1917:
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I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world.
-Eugene V. Debs
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday October 24, 1917
From The Masses: “Control of Industrial Profits” by Art Young
We women of America tell you that America
is not a democracy.
Twenty million women are denied
the right to vote.
-Alice Paul
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 7, 1917
Drawing by Boardman Robinson: Banner of Arrested Suffragists
From The Masses of October 1917:
Detail-The Offending Banner:
I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world.
– Eugene V. Debs
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday September 11, 1917
From The Masses: Art Young Comments on the Orgie of War
Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God.
Matthew 5:9
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday July 8, 1917
From The Masses: The Peace Prisoner by George Bellows
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I have no country to fight for,
my country is the earth
and I am a citizen of the world.
-Eugene Victor Debs
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday June 24, 1917
The Masses: Censorship, Conscription and Liberty
War and Liberty by Boardman Robinson:
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Hellraisers Journal, Friday June 22, 1917
United Mine Workers of America to Honor Ludlow Martyrs
From the United Mine Workers Journal of June 21, 1917:
The Ludlow Monument
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While it is fully recognized that there would be only words of commendation if the International Executive Board had appropriated sufficient money to build a monument to our martyred dead, on the field of Ludlow, there is a sentimental value in the recommendation adopted instead that, no doubt, will be appreciated by the membership.
We wish to perpetuate the memory of those who died that the organization might live in Colorado and in the entire country.
Let us place that memorial upon every minute book of every local in the jurisdiction of the miners’ union. In subscribing a small sum to be expended in the erection of a fitting monument we recognize anew the bitter cost some were called upon to pay.
So many of us have fallen heir to the benefits that are derived from unionism. We have never learned to appreciate the cost of its up building and some of us may hold them lightly, and even so, the organization gained with sacrifice, struggle and pain, even unto death.
I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth;
I am a citizen of the world.
-Eugene Victor Debs
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday June 3, 1917
From The Masses: “Empty Shells” from the Battlefields of Europe
Drawing by F. A. Busing:
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They’ve got us down-their martial lines enfold us;
They’ve thrown us out to feel the winter’s sting,
And yet, by God, those curs can never hold us,
Nor could the dogs of hell do such a thing!
-Paint Creek Miner
Paint Creek, W. Va., 1913
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday April 17, 1917
International Socialist Review: “A New Revolutionary Song Book”
“When the Leaves Come Out” by Ralph Chaplin is now available for sale from the Review or from The Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago.
A New Revolutionary Song Book— The most popular poem ever published in the REVIEW was, beyond any question, Ralph Chaplin’s famous “When the Leaves Come Out,” written at the time when the mine guards in West Virginia had been guilty of killing and injuring scores of striking miners. Many letters came to this office asking the name of the “Paint Creek Miner.”
These friends will be delighted to learn that the I. W. W. has brought out a book of poems and new songs by Ralph Chaplin, songs and poems as rhythmical with rebellion as the pulse of that splendid organization itself.
“When the Leaves Come Out” is a beautiful book with a cover, about which the I. W. W. has a right to boast, and the sketches within, by the author, are full of strength, revolutionary symbolism and artistic charm. The sign of Black Cat is everywhere.
Next month we hope to quote one or two of our favorite poems from this book. But in the meantime send in 50 cents and get it. We understand the I. W. W. sells this new book in quantities at 35 cents a copy. Address I. W. W., 164 W. Washington street, Chicago, Ill.
The cover of FW Chaplin’s new book features the drawing, “The Miner” by Charles A. Winter, published in the June 1913 edition of The Masses:
The speculators, the employers,
the plutocracy…with lies and sophistries
they will whip up our blood until we are savage-
and then we’ll fight and die for them.
-Jack Reed
Hellraisers Journal, Saturday April 7, 1917
From The Seattle Star: “War Is Begun…Wilson Signs Declaration”
News of America’s entrance into the War in Europe displaced all news of the ongoing Tracy Trial from the front page of last evening’s edition of The Seattle Star:
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Regarding the ongoing Tracy Trial, we were able to find a small article on page two of the same edition of the Star with the headline:
“Jury Wants to Hurry the Case”
It appears that the Jury is getting bored as the Defense fights to save the life of Fellow Worker Tom Tracy.
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From The Masses of April 1917:
WHOSE WAR?
John Reed
