Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: “Defendant was out of work,” by Art Young

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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there
and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes.
I told him if he had stolen a railroad
he would be a United States Senator.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday September 10, 1916
From The Masses: Irrelevant Evidence by Art Young

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Attorney for the Defendant: “Your honor, the defendant was out of work. He has a sick wife and three small children.”

Prosecuting Attorney: “Your honor, I object. The evidence is irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial.”

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Hellraisers Journal: Miss Flynn & Arturo Giovannitti Speak Out on Behalf of Mesabi Iron Strike Prisoners

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It’s the wrong way to treat the Miners
It’s the wrong way to go.
It’s the wrong way to best the Miners,
As the Steel Trust soon will know.
God help those dirty Mine Guards,
The Miners won’t forget.
It’s the wrong way to treat the Miners,
And the guards will know that yet.
-Written by a Miner in Jail

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Hellraisers Journal, Saturday September 9, 1916
Virginia, Minnesota – Appeal for Support

From Michigan’s Escanaba Morning Press of September 7, 1916:

SAYS DEPUTY KILLED MYRON
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EGF, Tresca, MN Iron Miners Strike, Ev IN, Aug 17, 1916

Virginia, Minn., Sept. 6-Deputy Sheriff Edward Shubisky killed Deputy Sheriff Myron during the Biwabik riot July 3 and not Sam Scarlet [Scarlett], Carlo Tresco [Tresca] and others of the I. W. W. indicated for the murder of the officer, according to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who made the sensational charge at Socialist hall here last night before an audience made up, it is said, largely of curiosity seers.

She declared that Deputy Shubisky had fired three shots said that three bullets caused the death of Myron’ that Shubisky admitted firing three times. “Myron was struck in the back and it appears that Shubisky, who declares he does not know where he fired the three bullets, killed him,” she shouted. Nick Dillon, special deputy, was accused of the murder of Tom Ladvala, Biwabik pop-man.

 

Her version of the Biwabik tragedy was that Mr. and Mrs. Masonovich and three boarder were in their home when Deputies Myron, Shubisky, Dillion and Hoffman entered; that Dillion struck Masonovich; that Mrs. Masonovich tried to get her husband’s shoes and that she was knocked down by Dillion and that three boarders jumped to the rescue of Mrs. Masonovich; that Dillion left for help and that in the excitement Shubisky accidentally killed Myron. She claimed that the boarders had no firearms.

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Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: “Laying Down Our Lives for Their Country” by Maurice Becker

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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

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday September 3, 1916
From The Masses: A Comment on War by Maurice Becker

Laying Down Our Lives for Profit by M Becker, Masses Sept 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: The God of War by Boardman Robinson

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In peace they starve you to your loathsome toil,
In war they drive you to the teeth of Death;
And when your life-blood soaks into their soil
They give you lies to choke your dying breath.
-Ralph Chaplin

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday August 24, 1916
From The Masses: War & God by Boardman Robinson

From this month’s edition of The Masses:

Masses, God of War, Boardman Robinson, Aug 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: George P West Reports on Meeting Between American and Mexican Labor Leaders, Part II

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Since we arrived here we have learned
that the American people do not want war,
and especially the working people.
-Carlos Lovera

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday August 16, 1916
From The Masses: Robert Minor on Mexico and American Politics

Masses, Dems Rpbs Hang Mexico, Robert Minor, Aug 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: George P West Reports on Meeting Between American and Mexican Labor Leaders, Part I

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Since we arrived here we have learned
that the American people do not want war,
and especially the working people.
-Carlos Lovera

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday August 15, 1916
From The Masses: Robert Minor on Class War in Pittsburgh

Masses, Pittsburgh, Robert Minor, Aug 1916
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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: From The Masses: Boardman Robinson on the Execution of “The Deserter”

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Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
-Fellow Worker Jesus of Nazareth,
Carpenter
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Sunday July 23, 1916
From The Masses: A Drawing on the Fate of The Peacemaker

The Masses, The Deserter, Jesus Christ, by B Robinson, July 1916


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Hellraisers Journal: From the Masses: “The Mexican Tangle” by John Reed

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Yo, Pancho Villa, fui un hombre leal
que el destino trajo al mundo para
luchar por el bien de los pobres y que
nunca traicionaré ni olvidaré mi deber.
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Wednesday June 21, 1916
From The Masses: John Reed on the “Punitive Expedition”

Villa Expedition, Generals Pershing & Villa, begun Mar 14, 1916
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