Hellraisers Journal: Charles Moyer at Laredo Labor Conference: Half-Truths & Untruths re IWW & Big Bill Haywood

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BBH Quote re May Day, AtR p2, Apr 27, 1907
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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 20, 1918
Laredo, Texas – Charles Moyer Spews Bitter Venom at Bill Haywood

With great sadness we report and correct the half-truths and untruths spewed by Charles Moyer at Big Bill Haywood during the recent Pan American Labor Conference held at Laredo, Texas. Charles Moyer knows what it is to face the persecutions of the ruling class. He nearly lost his life in the 1913 Michigan Copper Miners strike when he was kidnapped, shot, and deported from the strike zone by company gunthugs.

From the Chicago Day Book of December 29, 1913:

M13, Moyer in Hospital, Day Book p29, Dec 29, 1913

He nevertheless returned to the strike zone after his release from the hospital, and was greeted by thousands of cheering strikers and their families. That this hero would now turn on his fellow workers brings deep disappointment and sadness.

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Hellraisers Journal: W. F. of M. Convention Sends Message of Solidarity to Miners of Cananea

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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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Saturday June 16, 1906
Denver, Colorado – W. F. of M. Sends Message of Support to Cananea

Cananea Copper Strike of 1906, Strikers confront Am possemen
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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: Western Federation of Miners Re-Elects Imprisoned Officers Moyer and Haywood

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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 June 14, 1906
Denver, Colorado – W. F. of M. Stands By Imprisoned Officers

Moyer, Haywood, Darrow Collection
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