Tag: World War I

Hellraisers Journal: The Duluth Labor World Waxes Ecstatic Over Re-Election of President Wilson

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He kept us out of war.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 12, 1916
Duluth, Minnesota – Leading Labor Paper Rejoices

From The Labor World of November 11, 1916:

WOODROW WILSON RE-ELECTED
IN HOTTEST FIGHT SINCE
CIVIL WAR

Woodrow Wilson, Elected, Labor World, Nov 11, 1916

The election of President Wilson at this writing seems certain. Considering the character of the opposition to his re-election the victory is wonderful. The power of plutocracy in America has been destroyed. Special privilege is doomed. The forces that have strangled justice and robbed the people for 50 years back are crushed. A new nation is born. A new freedom permeates the atmosphere. Human rights will take precedence over the claims of the dollar.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FACES TURNED TOWARD THE MORNING SINGING NEW SONGS OF LIBERTY.

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Hellraisers Journal: Wilson, Democrat and Hughes, Republican: “They Kept Us Out of War”

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But when the sky darkens
And the prospect is war
Who’s given a gun
And then pushed to the fore
And expected to die
For the land of our birth
When we’ve never owned
One handful of earth?
-Ed Pickford

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday October 26, 1916
The Northwest Worker on “Political Saviors”

POLITICAL SAVIORS WHO WILL
“KEEP US OUT OF WAR”
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Benson Kirkpatrick, American Socialist July 8, 1916

Wilson kept us out of war. Therefore, if re-elected, he will continue to keep us out of war. How, we ask, can any intelligent person assume that there is the slightest basis for such reasoning? We can imagine a person attributing supernatural powers to Wilson accepting it, but he certainly would not be an intelligent person, or let us say, he accepted it as a matter of faith, and not of reason.

If Wilson should be re-elected, and the country does not go to war, that faith would naturally be strengthened among his supporters. But, if, under the same circumstances, the country did go to war, there would be nothing easier than for his supporters to claim that it was forced on him; that he was not able to keep the country out of war, despite their belief that he could. That belief would be conveniently forgotten, and they would hate to be reproached with ever entertaining it.

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Hellraisers Journal: “Victory” in Europe by Boardman Robinson for The Masses

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You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your own little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
-Bob Dylan

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday October 15, 1916
The War in Europe by Boardman Robinson

From The Masses of October 1916:

Europe at War, B. Robinson, Masses, Oct 1916

Detail:

Victory in Europe, B. Robinson, Masses, Oct 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: Preparedness Logic by Boardman Robinson & Carl Sandburg on War

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Onward, Christian soldiers! Rip and tear and smite!
Let the gentle Jesus bless your dynamite.
Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod;
Folks who do not speak your tongue deserve the curse of God.

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday September 19, 1916
Views on Preparedness and War from Robinson and Sandburg

From this month’s edition of The Masses:

Preparedness Logic, B Robinson, Masses, Sept 1916

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Hellraisers Journal: Repression on the Mesabi Range: The Masonovich and Andreytchine Cases

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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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Hellraisers Journal: Friday September 8, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Minnesota Justice

The Masonovich Case

INVADING MINERS’ HOMES

By OTTO CHRISTENSEN

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ON the afternoon of July 3rd mine guard Nick Dillon, in company with three guards, invaded the home of Phillip Mesomovich [Masonovich]. Now Dillon, who led the guards, has served as a mine guard for several years both in Minnesota and Colorado. He has also served as a strong arm man identified with the assignation house in the neighborhood of Virginia, Minnesota. The notorious Dillon is known to most of the people on the range, and he was the only mine guard of the four that was known to any of the Mesomovich family.

When the guards entered the house Mrs. Mesomovich offered them chairs to sit down, but Nick Dillon replied that they had not come to sit down, but came to take Phillip Mesomovich and Joe Hercigonovich to jail. Mrs. Mesomovich replied to Dillon, “You fellows will not take my husband to jail before Old Man O’Hara comes from Biwabik.” O’Hara was the village marshal of Biwabik and the Mesomovich family lived at the Chicago location, which is within the village limits of Biwabik. Mrs. Mesomovich’s husband was asleep at the time, but came out of the bedroom shortly after the guards had entered the home. Mesomovich asked for his shoes and Mrs. Mesomovich started toward the bedroom when Dillon assaulted her. Mrs. Mesomovich told her story as follows:

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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: Eugene Debs on the Proposed Platform of the Socialist Party of America

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The industrial organization of the working class
is the foundation of the Socialist movement,
and without it Socialism is impossible.
-Eugene V. Debs

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday August 13, 1916
Terre Haute, Indiana – Debs for Revolutionary Economic Organization

From St. Louis Labor of August 12, 1916:

On the Proposed National Platform
by Eugene V. Debs

Terre Haute, Ind., August 4

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Every member ought to read carefully the draft of the new platform of the Socialist Party recently submitted to the party membership for final action. The importance to the party and to our propaganda of a sound platform, a clear and ringing declaration of what the party stands for and what it stands against, cannot be overestimated.

The platform now before us doubtless had the most careful thought and conscientious attention of the committee that framed it and it is certainly well written, its propositions are clearly stated, and its indictment of capitalism and militarism strongly drawn; yet it would be expecting too much to find it free from objection.
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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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