Monday June 18, 1906
Denver, Colorado – Response to Arrest of W. F. of M. Officers
Saturday June 16, 1906
Denver, Colorado – W. F. of M. Sends Message of Support to Cananea
Friday June 15, 1906
Denver, Colorado – Bail Demanded for Moyer and Haywood
Thursday June 14, 1906
Denver, Colorado – W. F. of M. Stands By Imprisoned Officers
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
From the Duluth Labor World of June 9, 1906:
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.
We are free, truly free, when
we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody
in order to be able to lift
a piece of bread to our mouths.
-Ricardo Flores Magón
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 9, 1906
Report from Bisbee, Arizona: “Agitators” Threatened with Arrest
From today’s Salt Lake Tribune:
AMERICAN MINERS FLEE
FROM MEXICO
—–Mexican Authorities Threaten Agitators
of the Strike With Arrest.
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WESTERN FEDERATION OF MINERS IS BLAMED
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Those Killed in Recent Riots Have Been
Buried Without identification.
—–BISBEE, Ariz., June 8.-As a result of the strike at Cananea, Mexico, mines of Colonel W. C. Greene, last week, the American miners in the camp will be very few in number in the future, it is believed. They are crossing the line in droves, and several hundred have arrived in Bisbee during the last forty-eight hours.
Threatened With Arrest.
On Thursday the Mexican authorities sent a man through the mines notifying all American miners that those who were under suspicion of having agitated the trouble at Cananea and had openly sympathized with the striking Mexicans would on the following day be placed under arrest. The result was a general exodus of Americans.
Western Federation Blamed.
It can be reliably stated that the American authorities believe that members of the Western Federation of Miners at Cananea secretly encouraged and abetted the strike and members of this organization were the first to receive the notice to leave.
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday March 26, 1906
An Introduction to George Pettibone, Miners’ Hero
From The Miners’ Magazine of November 1901:
From the archives of The Miners’ Magazine, official organ of the Western Federation of Miners, we came across the following introduction to George Pettibone, who now stands accused, along with Charles Moyer and Bill Haywood, of the murder of the ex-governor of Idaho:
