Hellraisers

Hellraisers Journal: Ricardo & Enrique Magón Jailed, Defense League Organized in Los Angeles

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 12:41pm

We are free, truly free, when
we don't need to rent our arms to anybody
in order to be able to lift
a piece of bread to our mouths.
-Ricardo Flores Magón
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Thursday June 8, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Magón Brothers Jailed

Ricardo y Enrique Flores Magón, ab 1914, archivomagon dot net.png

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

Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 12:58pm

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

Mother Mary Harris Jones, Text- Please Find Her, AZ Repbn, May 16, 1916-1.png

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

Submitted by JayRaye on Mon, 06/06/2016 - 12:55pm

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

Mother Jones by Bertha Howell (Mrs Mailly), ab 1902.png

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: "Scarlet Empire" by Covington Hall & "Rising Tide of Revolution" by Jack London

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 12:27pm


You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday June 5, 1906
Covington Hall and Jack London Respond to the Empire's Call for Blood

Covington Hall, Poem, Scarlet Empire, detail, AtR, June 2, 1906.png

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

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 12:55pm

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

HMP, Moyer Haywood Pettibone, ab 1906_0.png

Hellraisers Journal: -The International Socialist Review: Pittsburgh Steel Strike & Homestead Tactics

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 06/01/2016 - 1:33pm


You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday June 1, 1916
The International Socialist Review on the Pittsburgh Steel Strike

Pittsburgh Steel Strike, Blast Furnace Workers, ISR June 1916.png

Hellraisers Journal: From the International Socialist Review: "Marching Through Mexico" by J. K. Turner

Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 05/31/2016 - 12:57pm

There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday May 31, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: The Villa Expedition

Villa Expedition, Turner, Our Boys, ISR, May 1916.png

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

Submitted by JayRaye on Mon, 05/30/2016 - 12:58pm
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

Robert Minor, Breed Mother Breed, NY Call, Aug 8, 1915.png
From the New York Call of August 8, 1915
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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones on Hideous Conditions Of Child Slavery in Southern Cotton Mills

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 05/29/2016 - 12:55pm

"Of such is the kingdom of Heaven,"
said the great teacher.
Well, if Heaven is full of undersized,
round shouldered, hollow-eyed,
listless, sleepy little angel children,
I want to go to the other place with the bad little boys and girls.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday May 29, 1906
From The Labor World: Mother Jones on Child Labor

Child Labor, Spargo Bitter Cry of Children, Poem Wilcox, Feb 1906.png

Hellraisers Journal: Jacob Waldeck Reports from Boise: Miners’ Officials Declared Guilty on Sight

Submitted by JayRaye on Sat, 05/28/2016 - 3:00pm

There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 28, 1906
Report from Boise: Conclusion of Five Part Series by Jacob Waldeck

HMP, Court Room, Waldeck 5, Spokane Press, May 21, 1906.png

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