Robert Davis

WE NEVER FORGET: The Youngstown Massacre of January 7, 1916

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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones

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WE NEVER FORGET

George Get-23
Robert Davis-24
Unknown Worker

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THE YOUNGSTOWN MASSACRE

January 7, 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: Mayor of East Youngstown Blames Armed Company Guards for "Desolation Wrought"

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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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Tuesday January 11, 1916
East Youngstown, Ohio - Mayor Blames "Desolation Wrought" on Company Guards

From The Pittsburgh Sunday Post, page 2, of January 9, 1916:

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East Youngstown Mayor Blames Riot
on Guards
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YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 8- "I am completely dazed over the horrible occurrence here and the desolation wrought," Mayor William H. Cunningham of East Youngstown said, in commenting on the riot.

"From what I have been told I fear it was caused by the armed guards on the bridge. Had the guards been kept within the limits of the mill property I doubt if there would have been any trouble.

Eye-witnesses have told me it was the guards on the bridge that fired the first shots. That aroused the fury of the mob.

"I think the trouble is over for the present and do not look for any further outbreak unless an effort is made to operate the plants with strikebreakers. There will be trouble if this is attempted."

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