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Hellraisers Journal: Joe Hill Releases Statement: "A Few Reasons Why I Demand...
In Salt Lake, Joe, says I to him Him standing by my bed They framed you on a murder charge Says Joe, But I ain't dead Says Joe, But I ain't dead -Alfred...
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Hellraisers Journal: Joe Hill, "I have never in my life, double crossed a...
Tomorrow I expect to take a trip to the planet Mars, and if so, will immediately commence to organize the Mars canal workers into the I.W.W., and we will sing the good old songs so loud that the...
View ArticleOctober 12 “Bury me with my boys in Mt. Olive”
“Bury me with my boys in Mt. Olive, and let no traitor draw breath over my grave.” Such was the last wish of labor leader Mother Jones. She wanted her final resting to place to be alongside the coal...
View ArticleOctober 13 Delivering a Better Future
On this day in Labor History, the year was 2000. That was the day the newspaper carriers for the San Jose Mercury News ended their walkout. Eighty percent of the newspaper carriers were Vietnamese...
View ArticleOctober 14 Labor Standing in Solidarity Against the Nazis
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1933. That was the day the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor decided to call for a boycott of Nazi Germany’s goods and services. Jewish...
View ArticleOctober 15 Labor’s “Magna Carta”
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1914. That was the day that President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Antitrust Act. The act also became known as Labor’s “Magna Carta.” Prior to the...
View ArticleOctober 16 Striking a Blow at Slave Labor
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1859. That was the day that abolitionist John Brown led a raid at the armory in Harpers Ferry, in what is now West Virginia. His goal was to strike a blow...
View ArticleOctober 17 The Making of a Monopoly
On this day in Labor History, the year was 1877. That was the day that John D. Rockefeller, and his company Standard Oil struck a deal with the Pennsylvania Railroad that would cement his monopoly on...
View ArticleOctober 18 “Walking” in their Shoes
On this day in Labor History, and we are going all the way back to 1648. More than a hundred years before the American Revolution, an early trade organization was founded in the Colony of...
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Hellraisers Journal: Attorney Hilton and Swedish Minister Discuss Plan to...
I am going to stick to my principle no matter what may come. I am going to have a new trial or die trying. Yours for Fair Play, JOSEPH...
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Hellraisers Journal: Jane Whitaker & Carl Sandburg Report on the Chicago...
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother Jones```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Thursday...
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Hellraisers Journal: Girl-Strikers Swear to Brutality of Chicago Police:...
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother Jones```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Friday October...
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Hellraisers Journal: "Are there any secret agents of your department in the...
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother Jones```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Saturday...
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Hellraisers Journal: John R. Lawson Released on Bail; 1,000 Miners Will Be...
Iron bars and prison walls will not intimidate or swerve me from my duty toward my fellow men in their struggle for industrial democracy. -John R....
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Hellraisers Journal: "No union is a union..unless it has power to bargain...
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother Jones```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Monday October...
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Hellraisers Journal: Joe Hill Brought Before Judge Ritchie and Re-Sentenced...
I am going to stick to my principle no matter what may come. I am going to have a new trial or die trying. Yours for Fair Play, JOSEPH...
View ArticleOctober 19 In the Streets and the Shareholder Meetings
On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. In what the Chicago Sun Times called it the “biggest labor management war of the last two decades.” The battle for union recognition at ten J.P....
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Hellraisers Journal: Utah Newspapers Released "Record" of Joe Hill on Day of...
I had the pleasure to fight under The Red Flag once, any way, so I guess I've had my share of the fun. -Joe...
View ArticleOctober 20 Merle Travis
On this day in Labor History the year was 1983. That was the day that musician Merle Travis died. Known for his unique finger-picking guitar style, Travis wrote songs that captured the hard life of...
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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Testifies Before Chicago City Council,...
If they hire gunmen to beat up these girls, who are the mothers of the future, then I say to them we'll have to defend ourselves. We wouldn't be good Americans if we didn't. I say, "Go to it. We'll...
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