Industrial Workers of the World

Hellraisers Journal: The Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones, Sent on Mission to Arizona, May 1916


My address is like my shoes.
It travels with me.
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday June 7, 1916
Mother Jones Travels From Chicago to Arizona with Stop in Kansas

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Hellraisers Journal: The Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones, Socialist Party Organizer, for May 1906


You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday June 6, 1906
Mother Jones Tours Illinois for Socialist Party of America

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Today Hellraisers pauses to catch up with Mother Jones and to document her whereabouts and doings for the month of May 1906. We find Mother, at the end of May, on tour as a National Organizer for the Socialist Party of America. The photograph at right was taken by Bertha Howell, who is now married to William Mailly, former National Secretary of Socialist Party.

Hellraisers Journal: Haywood: "It is good to know that at last the working class are aroused."


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 2, 1906
From Ada County Jail: A Letter from Big Bill Haywood

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Hellraisers Journal: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on the “Glory” of War and Thoughts on Breeding for War

Defend your country?
What ground do you own?
-not even enough to stand on, perhaps,
much less enough to bury yourself in!
-Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Tuesday May 30, 1916
St. Louis, Missouri - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Speaks on Preparedness

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From the New York Call of August 8, 1915
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Hellraisers Journal: From the Appeal to Reason: Kidnappers’ Special Poster by Big Bill Haywood

If they hang Moyer and Haywood,
they've got to hang me.
-Eugene V. Debs
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Wednesday May 23, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: The Kidnappers' Special Poster

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Detail from Kidnappers' Special Poster by Big Bill Haywood
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Hellraisers Journal: Members of the United Mine Workers of Defend the Western Federation of Miners


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 May 22, 1906
To The Indianapolis News: Miners of U. M. W. Defend W. F. M.

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A letter written to The Indianapolis News, signed by members of the United Mine Workers of America, defends the Western Federation of Miners which was so viciously attacked recently by The News. The letter was found published in the Socialist section of a newspaper out of Salem, Oregon.

Hellraisers Journal: Frank Tannenbaum Revisits Blackwell’s Island Prison as a Free Man

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday April 25, 1916
From The Masses: Frank Tannenbaum on Reforms at Blackwell's

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Hellraisers Journal: Joe Hill and the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

Organize! Oh, toilers, come organize your might;
Then we'll sing one song of the workers' commonwealth,
Full of beauty, full of love and health.
-Joe Hill
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Tuesday April 24, 1906
From The San Francisco Call: Fire Boundary Twenty-Six Miles

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Hellraisers Journal: George Shoaf for Appeal to Reason on Crimes of Mine Owners’ Association

There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Friday April 20, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Idaho Frame-Up, Part III

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Hellraisers Journal: Western Federation of Miners & Industrial Workers of the World vs A. F. of L.

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 April 19, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Idaho Frame-Up, Part II

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