Hellraisers Journal: Slayer of Salt Lake IWW Leader Hailed as Hero by Local Area Elks Lodge

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Monday November 02, 2015 · 11:01 AM PST

2015/11/02 · 11:01

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 November 2, 1915
Salt Lake City, Utah - Major Myton, Slayer of Fellow Worker Horton, Hailed as Hero

The photographs above are from the November edition of Sunset Magazine. Note how the Industrial Workers of the World is portrayed as a dangerous organization against which the Governor of Utah bravely stands. Yet we find that it is the President of I. W. W. Local 69 who has been gunned down in the streets of Salt Lake City while not one official of the state nor of the city has been in any way harmed.

Meanwhile, Major H. P. Myton, who shot down Fellow Worker Roy J. Horton in cold blood, is being treated as hero by prominent citizens of Utah. The local area Elks Club is planning to mount a defense campaign for him. This is the same Elks Club where Judge Morris L. Ritchie, who presided over the trial of Joe Hill, and District Attorney Elmer O. Leatherwood, the prosecutor in the case, are enrolled as members.

The effort to justify the murder of President Horton has now been extended to the front of The New York Times. It seems, according to the Times, that the I. W. W. leader got what he deserved when he was summarily executed by "Major" Myton:

SALT LAKE, Oct 31-Resenting attacks on law and order and insults heaped on peace officers by a gang of Industrial Workers of the World, Major H. P. Myton, a prominent Utah politician and former United States Army officer, shot and killed Roy J. Horton, an I. W. W. leader, at an early hour this morning...
The killing last night is the first tragedy to result from the demonstrations which have formed part of the propaganda instituted by the I. W. W. in behalf of Joseph Hillstrom, the "hobo poet," who is sentenced to be executed on Nov. 19 for murder.

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Sunday November 01, 2015 · 11:00 AM PST

2015/11/01 · 11:00

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 November 1, 1915
Salt Lake City, Utah - Roy J. Horton, Local I. W. W. President Shot Down in Street

Fellow Worker Roy Joseph Horton, President of the I. W. W. Local 69 in Salt Lake City was murdered by a gunthug on a downtown street shortly after midnight yesterday, October 31st.

The Nevada State Journal gave the following account:

I. W. W. LEADER KILLED BY
SALT LAKE OFFICER
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SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 31.-Major H. H. Myton, a former deputy sheriff, shot and killed Roy Horton, said to be an I. W. W. leader following a dispute on west Second street south, shortly after midnight. Horton, it is said, attacked Myton and knocked him down, when Myton drew an automatic pistol from his pocket and fired three shots into Horton's body. It is said that the dispute started over the Hillstrom case.
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A source from Salt Lake City provides a very different story:

Fellow Worker Horton, 29, was talking with friends in front of a downtown bar just after midnight on October 31st when he asserted, "Any man who would pack a star is a dirty-----." This remark was overheard by Major Howell P. Myton, old gunfighter and lawman, who then confronted Horton, "What do you mean by those insinuations?"

"That is meant for you or any other ----- who will wear a star," Horton replied. Whereupon Myton pulled out his gun, stated "I'll kill you for that," and fired three shots at Horton. Two of the shots hit Horton as he staggered away with his back to Myton.

Fellow Worker Roy Horton died there on the sidewalk. Myton was soon thereafter arrested and taken to jail.

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SOURCES

Nevada State Journal
(Reno, Nevada)
-Oct 31, 1915
https://www.newspapers.com/...

The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy
of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
-by William M. Adler
Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Aug 30, 2011
https://books.google.com/...

Find A Grave: for full name and age of Horton.
http://www.findagrave.com/...

IMAGE
IWW Logo on Local 69 banner,
Deseret Evening News, Aug 13, 1913
https://books.google.com/...

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Saturday October 31, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/31 · 11:00

WE NEVER FORGET
Leo Schroeder-10
Samuel Kapper-35

Who lost their lives in Freedom's Cause during
The Great Chicago Garment Workers Strike of 1915.

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Friday October 30, 2015 · 11:01 AM PDT

2015/10/30 · 11:01

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 October 30, 1915
Chicago, Illinois - Miss Starr Brings Sad Report of Murdered Striker to Hull House

From the Chicago Daily Tribune of October 27th we find the story of how Miss Ellen Gates Starr informed Miss Jane Addams about the murder of Samuel Kapper, striking garment worker:

"ANGEL OF STRIKERS" BEARS NEWS OF KILLING TO HULL HOUSE

Miss Ellen Gates Starr tells Miss Jane Addams of pool of blood she saw,
and how calm and quiet seemed both strikers and police.

Ellen Gates Starr under arrest
during Henrici waitresses strike, March 5, 1914
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Miss Jane Addams
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It was some time after the shooting that Miss Ellen Gates Starr, "angel of the strikers," reached Hull house, where she lives. Miss Jane Addams was waiting in the large parlor near the main entrance. She had heard of the affair only a few minutes before.
"Did you see the shooting?" Miss Addams asked, breathlessly.

"I saw a pool of gore," replied Miss Starr.

"I had been at the Royal Tailors," Miss Starr continued. "I got off the car and saw the policemen and the crowd. The policemen tried to push me on, but I said: "I won't go until I find out about this. I am Miss Starr of Hull house." They didn't interfere after that." A group of young men gathered to hear the story.

"Who did the shooting? " asked Miss Addams.

"God knows," was the reply.

"Was it a striker who was killed?"

"Yes, it was," replied Miss Starr. "We tried to find his home, but failed. They gave us an address first and we went there in an automobile. It was the address of a Jewish preacher who dealt with deaf mutes. The man who was killed was a deaf mute, you know."

"Did he have a family?" asked Miss Addams.

"He had a mother. We were glad there was no one else. We went to the second address but that was wrong too, and we had to give it up. I don't know where they have taken the body."

[Continued below.]

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Thursday October 29, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/29 · 11:00

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

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Friday October 29, 1915
From the Chicago Day Book: 5,000 Mourners March Behind Funeral of Samuel Kapper

The funeral for striking garment worker, Samuel Kapper, Martyr of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, was held yesterday. The Day Book gave this account:

Samuel Kapper
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THOUSANDS MARCH BEHIND
KAPPER FUNERAL
Five thousand garment workers marched from the synagogue at Division and Lincoln av. today behind the body of Samuel Kapper, striker, who was murdered on Halsted st. Monday. The marchers disbanded at Madison st. Burial of Kapper was made in Forest Home cemetery.

It was planned to continue the march to the Cubs' ball park and hold a mass meeting there, but the park could not be secured. The big vacant lot outside the ball park was available, but Sidney Hillman refused to allow his strikers to meet there, fearing police and hired sluggers would instigate trouble in order to turn public sympathy against the strikers.

Hillman arose from a sick bed to participate in the march.
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[Photograph added.]

Below the fold, our readers can find further reporting on the Great Chicago Garment Workers Strike. Read More

Hellraisers Journal: Samuel Kapper, Striking Tailor, Shot Dead By Scab on Chicago Street Corner

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Wednesday October 28, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/28 · 11:00

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

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Thursday October 28, 1915
Chicago, Illinois - Samuel Kapper, Striking Tailor, Shot Dead by Scab-Three Wounded

The Chicago Day Book of October 27th reported:

Samuel Kapper
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STRIKER IS DEAD-
TWO ARE INJURED-GUN FIGHT
Staccato barks of a gun; the surge of a mob that excitement creates; a pool of blood in a sink in the sidewalk; a man lying face in pool, dead. The first murder of the garment workers' strike was done last night.

Sam'l Kapper, 35, 2147 Crystal pi., deaf and dumb striking tailor, was killed. Three were wounded: Sam'l Siegel, 23, 1115 S. Loomis st., shot below right ear; Wm. Whelen, 49, 2124 W. Harrison st., innocent bystander, bullet in breast; unidentified man.

With a smoking gun in his hand, Tony Panichi, strikebreaker. Scotch Woolen Mills, was arrested. He admitted firing one shot. Many witnesses say they saw or heard him fire at least five shots.

Panichi and his wife, with perhaps two others, were walking on Halsted near Harrison. Trouble started. Witnesses say Panichi's wife handed him a gun and he began shooting. Panichi's wife told police she did hand husband a gun.

First Deputy Schuettler is trying to alibi the police department by blaming, first, city council for ruling against hired sluggers, and then the strikers, whom he intimates are liars.

Schuettler is so confident of the untruthfulness of testimony presented to the council committee which investigated the strike that he has ordered his department to visit garment factories and homes of strikebreakers in an endeavor to rake up some testimony of strikebreakers being mistreated by strikers.

Schuettler issued this general order:

To commanding officers: You will canvass each garment factory and ascertain the employes who have been assaulted; also those who have been threatened. You will verify same by calling at homes of persons alleged to have been assaulted.
Schuettler, wants this dope quick. The order calls for a complete report by 9 a. m. tomorrow. It is believed he wants to get stories of strikebreakers being beaten in order to offset the gigantic list of brutalities the police have committed upon frail bodies of women strikers. The council investigating committee did not find a single instance of a strikebreaker having been molested by strikers.
While Schuettler was at Desplaines station Sidney Hillman, president of striking garment workers, came into the room. "If you don't get out in a hurry I will kick you out," Schuettler shouted at him.

The police department is paid by the city. An impression has gained that police think they are paid by and beholden to employers.
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[Photograph added.]

Further reporting from The Day Book can be found below the fold. Read More

Hellraisers Journal: Jane Whitaker for The Day Book: "Woman Craves Death as Result of Low Wages"

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Tuesday October 27, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/27 · 11:00

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

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Wednesday October 27, 1915
From The Day Book: Woman Longs for Death, Wants Rest from Starvation Wages

Sometimes long hours at starvation wages becomes too much to bear. Jane Whitaker in the Chicago Day Book of October 25th relates one woman's story of despair:

WOMAN CRAVES DEATH AS RESULT OF LOW WAGES
PAID BY MERCHANT PRINCES BY JANE WHITAKER

The antidote to dispair.
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"There'll be pie in the sky bye and bye," sang Hillstrom, the I. W. W. poet who will be shot to death in Utah in the near future, and in the past two weeks I have been thinking of that satire a great deal more than I have thought of other things, as on each visiting night I have called on a woman who is recovering from an operation at one of the leading hospitals, where she is in a charity bed.
Less than two years ago I met her shortly after she had lost her husband and adopted baby by death, one within a very short time of the other. She was saddened but she wasn't hopeless. Still fairly young, with a nature that craved happiness and demanded of life that it should give her what she craved, she faced the future firm in the belief that though she was frail and not very strong as a result of several operations, she was going to find a rising sun some day instead of the sun that had gone down.

Rarely in the interval I heard of her again. She left the city to visit her husband's people for quite a while; later she had come back and started a rooming house; later, finding this would not more than pay her rent and still left her without a living, she gave that up and tried to hold positions-jobs, she called them. Then I was told she was in the hospital to be operated on, and so I went to visit her.

It was on Saturday night two weeks ago. She was to be operated on early Tuesday morning. She was pleased to see me, but while I babbled the usual things we say when we do not know just what to say, she remained silent, looking at me with her large brown eyes very sober.

Then she did a curious thing. From her purse that hung by the side of the little white table she extracted some sheets of paper.

"Here is my obituary, Jane Whitaker," she said. "I'm not coming back."

I smiled at her because I thought it merely nervous depression. "The operation isn't such a serious one," I assured her. "You'll wake up to find the same old sun shining down, honey, you won't need to be afraid."

"Afraid?" Her brown eyes were afire. "Afraid? I'm not afraid to die, but I'm not going to keep on living. I tell you I won't. I must be finished. There isn't anything for me to live for."

"You're a little hysterical," I said.

She laughed it wasn't a bitter laugh, but it was hopeless.

Know what I did before I came here? Not much different from what I've been doing right along, but I went to work in one of the big department stores-Siegel-Cooper's-up in the grocery department. They paid me $3 a week and I was supposed to get 4 cents on the dollar on what I sold. I was at a center counter. I sold oranges at 22 and 29 cents a dozen; lemons at 1 cent each; apples 4 lbs. for 10 cents. I worked from 8:15 to 6:10, with from 25 to 45 minutes for lunch, according to how busy I was at the lunch time, and I worked one week. For the one week I received, including my commission, $4.57.
She was silent a while and I was silent, too. Then she resumed:

Jane Whitaker, you write a lot about how little women are paid, but you don't get down to the thing behind it the fact that a woman gets where she'd rather be dead than alive and keep it up. I don't want to live! When I came here to be examined and they told me it meant another operation I said: "This is a piece of luck; I'll be better off here. They take me in charity and I won't have any expense while I'm here, and if I'm lucky enough to die I won't have to worry any more about anything.
She lived. She hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet, but I told her I was going to write the story.

[She said:]
Please don't use my name..They told me I could come back again at Siegel-Cooper's and that is better than nothing since I'm still here.

She smiled wanly.
If I had died I wouldn't have had to think about earning $4.57 in 6 days, would I?" she asked. "Dying seems rather good when you're tired. You know you'll get a rest and you won't have to worry about living and eating and paying your room rent. It's a rest, anyway, isn't it?
I didn't repeat to her the words Hillstrom has written in such biting satire, but I thought of them for perhaps the fiftieth time:
There'll be pie in the sky bye and bye.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]

Below the fold, our readers can find a few recent reports from The Day Book on the Great Chicago Garment Workers' Strike. Read More

Hellraisers Journal: "Thrilling Experiences of 'Little Angel of Miners' in Military Prisons"

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Monday October 26, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/26 · 11:00

I was put in the cellar under the courthouse.
It was a cold, terrible place, without heat, damp and dark.
I slept in my clothes by day,
and at night I fought great sewer rats with a beer bottle.
"If I were out of this dungeon," thought I,
"I would be fighting the human sewer rats anyway!"
-Mother Jones

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Tuesday October 26, 1915
From The Labor World: Mother Jones Tells of Time Locked Up as Military Prisoner

From the October 23rd edition of the Duluth Labor World we are pleased to republish, in full, an article by Mother Jones which occupied almost one-half of the front page and was continued onto page two of the paper. In the article, Mother recounts her experiences as a military prisoner in the states of the West Virginia and Colorado. Mother has always been ready to answer the call of the miners whether they be organized by the Western Federation of Miners or by the United Mine Workers of America.

And she has never shied away from the threat of prison, no matter how dark or grim the cell may be.

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Sunday October 25, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/25 · 11:00

I have said that I'd have a new trial or die trying.
They can kill me I know, but they can
never make me "eat my own crow."
-Joe Hill

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Monday October 25, 1915
Salt Lake City, Utah - Utah Board of Pardons Challenged to Debate by O. N. Hilton

Joe Hill, Day Book, Oct 14, 1915, latest picture

From the Salt Lake City Deseret Evening News
of October 20, 1915:

Denial that Joseph Hillstrom has a criminal record is made in a letter addressed to the state board of pardons by O. N. Hilton, of Denver, one of Hillstrom's attorneys. Hilton makes an offer in his letter to publicly discuss the facts at any time in any city of the United States with any member of the board of pardons

Judge Orrin N Hilton stated in part:

I make this request to afford an opportunity to refute, as I feel I can, among other things, the false, wicked and cowardly aspersion on his character-that Hillstrom has heretofore committed any crime or that he has now, or ever has had, any criminal record-now for the first time so bravely urged as a sufficient justification for taking his life.
This matter, as you all must realize, is one now of national, if not international importance, and has excited in tense interest from New York to San Francisco; and I would be, as the attorney for this condemned man, of meaner stuff than men are made of if I did not, in the brief time of life now allotted him, challenge you and each of you to the proofs!

The full article from the News along with further reports on the case of Fellow Worker Joe Hill can be found below the fold. Read More

Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Leads Parade of 5,000 Women of the Great Chicago Garment Strike

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Saturday October 24, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/24 · 11:00

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 fight."
-Mother Jones

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Sunday October 24, 1915
Chicago Illinois - Mother Jones Leads Parade of 5,000 Women Garment Strikers

According to The Day Book, the women and girls who marched behind Mother Jones and Sidney Hillman yesterday numbered 5,000. Even today's Chicago Daily Tribune had to admit that the number was at least 3,000:

3,000 GARMENT STRIKERS MARCH
THROUGH LOOP
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Police Guard at Parade
Bearing Placards Showing Demands.
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"MOTHER" JONES IN LINE.
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Led by Sidney Hillman, the only man in the entire parade, 3,000 striking women and girls marched in and out through the wholesale clothing district and the boulevards yesterday afternoon. Thousands of men sympathizers, excluded from the parade, marched on the sidewalks and swelled the cheering.

In the front rank with Hillman were "Mother" Jones, Nettie Richardson, and Sarah [Bessie?] Abramowitz, all active in the striker's organization. At the start there were less than 2,000 marchers in line, but the numbers swelled, so that when the parade passed along Michigan avenue its numbers had been increased considerably.
Strikers Carry Placards.
Every fifty marchers had a placard. Here are some of the inscriptions:
Our Bosses Are Afraid of Arbitration. Why?

We Don't Want Charity. We Want Living Wages.

We Can't Live on $2 a Week. That's Why We Strike.

Our Bosses Donate to Charities. They Pauperize Their Workers.

Our Cause Is Just. Help Us Win.

We Don't Shop on State Street. We Can't on 7 Cents an Hour.

Low Wages Mean Misery. We Get 7 Cents an Hour.

We Need Protection from Brutal Foremen. Help Us Organize.

What Is a Living Wage? Our Bosses Say 7 Cents an Hour.

The strikers presented "Mother" Jones with a great bunch of chrysanthemums which Hillman carried most of the time. Two hundred policemen, forty-eight sergeants, and eight lieutenants were detailed to the parade by First Deputy Superintendent of Police Schuettler. Twenty detectives were assigned to guard spectators from pickpockets.

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Friday October 23, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/23 · 11:00

My plea was for Justice not Charity.
-Mother Jones

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Saturday October 23, 1915
From The Northwest Worker - "The Cry For Justice," edited by Upton Sinclair

The October 21st edition of the The Northwest Worker carried an advertisement and recommendation for the recently released "anthology of literature and social protest." The 955-page volume is entitled "The Cry For Justice," and is edited by Upton Sinclair with an Introduction by Jack London.

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Thursday October 22, 2015 · 11:00 AM PDT

2015/10/22 · 11:00

No matter what your fight don't be ladylike!
God Almighty made women
and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
-Mother Jones

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Friday October 22, 1915
Chicago, Illinois - Mother Jones and Boys' Brotherhood Republic

Mother Jones, Boston Globe, Jan 30, 1915

Today's Chicago Daily Tribune is reporting that Mother Jones took some time out from her mission of support for the Great Garment Strike in this city in order to accompany a group of young boys to a protest meeting before Judge Olson.

BOYS' 'MAYOR' PROTESTS TO
OLSON ON FINGERPRINTS.
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Calls on Judge, Hears Latter's View,
and Decides It's All Right-
"Mother" Jones Along.
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A dozen boys filed gravely into the chambers of Chief Justice Olson of the Municipal court yesterday and lined up in front of the judge's desk. Just behind them stood "Mother" Jones, who beamed through her spectacles and explained that she had come along to lend her moral support.

"We are from the Boys' Brotherhood Republic," said one sturdy youngster, "I'm Ralph Goodman, mayor, and we want to protest against this plan of yours to put the finger print system in the Boys' court. We don't believe a rogues' gallery for boys is the proper thing."

"I'm with you there," returned Judge Olson, "but we are not establishing any rogues' gallery. You boys have the wrong idea. We simply want to protect society from the vicious boy and the subnormal boy from himself. You ought not to be afraid to leave your finger prints anywhere, I'm not."

"Maybe that's right, huh?" observed Mayor Goodman, turning to his followers. They assented, agreed to help Judge Olson establish the proposed farm colony for vicious and subnormal boys, and departed well content.
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SOURCE
Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Oct 22, 1915
https://www.newspapers.com/...

IMAGE
Mother Jones, Boston Globe,
Jan 30, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...

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