Hellraisers Journal: Eugene V. Debs for the Appeal to Reason: "AROUSE, YE SLAVE!"
Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 12:30pmIf they hang Moyer and Haywood,
they've got to hang me.
-Eugene Victor Debs
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Sunday March 11, 1906
From the "Rescue Edition" of the Appeal to Reason: Debs Issues Call to Action
Down the center of the entire front page of Saturday's edition of the Appeal, Comrade Debs issues a call to action to protest the attempted judicial murder of the officers of the Western Federation of Miners.
Hellraisers Journal: Partial Settlement in New York City Garment Strike, Arrests Continue
Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 02/19/2016 - 12:30pmPut on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday February 19, 1916
New York, New York - Agreements Reached in Needle Workers Strike But Arrests Continue
From the Pittsburgh Daily Post:
Agreement Signed by
Garment Workers
-----NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-An agreement was signed today which it is believed will end the needle workers' strike in this city. It is expected that a majority of the 40,000 strikers will return to work within a few days, although some of the independent manufacturers have not signed the agreement.
The principal features of the agreement provide for "a preferential union shop," a working week of six days, with an aggregate of not more than 49 hours, and a maximum overtime of four hours, and a provision that Mayor Mitchel's council of conciliation shall be the final court of resort on any differences which may arise.
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WE NEVER FORGET: The Youngstown Massacre of January 7, 1916
Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 02/03/2016 - 12:55pm-Mother Jones
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WE NEVER FORGET
Robert Davis-24
Unknown Worker
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THE YOUNGSTOWN MASSACRE
Hellraisers Journal: East Youngstown Steel Strike Settled, Offer of 10% Wage Increase Accepted
Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 01/14/2016 - 12:57pmPut on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday January 14, 1916
East Youngstown, Ohio - Steel Strike Settled with 10 Percent Wage Increase
From the January 12th edition of the Decatur Herald of Illinois:
EAST YOUNGSTOWN STRIKE IS SETTLED
-----Men Vote to Accept Company's Offer
of 10 Per Cent Increase in Wages
and to Return.
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FLYNN'S CHARGES DENIED
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Grand Jury Investigates Trouble and Calls
Employers and Union Leaders.
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Militia patrolling burned district.
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Hellraisers Journal: Youngstown! Another Year, Another Massacre of Workers in Fight for Justice
Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 01/10/2016 - 12:55pmmen are here not to live but to tend the mills.
Humanity is dwarfed;
the machines which make the industry are exalted.
-Mary Heaton Vorse
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Monday January 10, 1916
Youngstown, Ohio - Three Killed as Guards Open Fire on Striking Steel Workers
Our information, thus far, on the Massacre at Youngstown comes from two Pittsburgh newspapers which are clearly hostile to the striking steel workers and their supporters. What we know so far is that, according to a reporter on the scene, the first shot may have been fired by the supervisor of the company guards, which supervisor is now chief of Police in East Youngstown:
...T. J. Kinney,chief of police of East Youngstown, has resigned and his place has been taken by James M. Woltz, safety director of the Tube company. Woltz, formerly a postoffice inspector, has been in charge of 100 guards at the Tube Company's East Youngstown plant for the past week. It is said Woltz fired the first shot, but a later report had it that a guard precipitated the trouble...
From The Gazette Times of January 8, 1916:
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SIX BLOCKS BURNED IN EAST YOUNGSTOWN
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