Hellraisers Journal: The Cananea Massacre: “The Czar Outdone…Capitalism’s Shame in Old Mexico”

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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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Tuesday July 3, 1906
From Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Cananea Strike, Part III

Cananea Miners under arrest af crushing of strike of June 1906
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Hellraisers Journal: At Cananea: “Fusilade of Bullets Meets the Humble Petition of Mexican Workingmen.”

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

Monday July 2, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Cananea Strike, Part II

Funeral of Cananea Striker, June 1906
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Hellraisers Journal: “Canaea Riots Not a Revolution But Simply a Strike of Under-Paid Labor”

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

Sunday July 1, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Cananea Strike, Part I

James Kirwan WFM, Quoted in AtR of June 30, 1906
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Hellraisers Journal: W. F. of M. Convention Demands Bail for Leaders Imprisoned in Idaho

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We recognize the class struggle,
we demand the surrender of capitalism,
a system that must die
that the people may live.
-Big Bill Haywood
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Friday June 15, 1906
Denver, Colorado – Bail Demanded for Moyer and Haywood

IWWs Kidnappers Special Poster by BBH, detail, ab: May 1906
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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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