You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday January 17, 1904
Denver, Colorado - C. F. of L. Endorses Mrs. Langdon's History of W. F. of M. Strike
Before adjourning, the Special Convention of the Colorado Federation of Labor unanimously adopted this resolution which was introduced by John Oliver of Denver Typographical Union No. 49:
Resolution
Whereas, Mrs. Emma F. Langdon, representing Victor Typographical Union No. 275, in this convention, when the employees and editorial force of the Victor Daily Record were thrown in the "bull-pen" for defending the rights of organized labr, in an effort to compel the suspension of that paper and throttle the friend of organized labor in that district,did jump into the breach, and alone and unaided did issue the paper;and
Whereas, Mrs. Langdon is now compiling a comprehensive history of the strike in the Cripple Creek district, which will be a true and concise resume of events from its inception to the close of the aforesaid struggle, be it
Resolved, That this convention does endorse said history and recommend the same to the public in general and to organized labor in particular, so that they may know the facts as they exist.
SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Photo: Emma F. Langdon
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
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Saturday January 17, 1914
Calumet, Michigan - Annie Clemenc, Seriously Ill, Serving a Ten-Day Jail Sentence
Annie Clemenc
Annie Clemenc of Calumet has been very ill and under a doctor's care since early this month. Charles Edward Russell who is in the strike zone as part of the Socialist Party Investigating Committee went to visit her on January 10th. He reported that "she lay in her mother's house, unconscious part of the time and part of the time shaken with nervous convulsions." She is receiving sickness benefits from Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota (Slovene National Benefit Society,) something she has never needed before.
We are left to wonder how much of a role the Italian Hall Massacre plays in her illness. As President of the Calumet Women's Auxiliary, Annie was the driving force behind organizing the Christmas Party for the children. The evening which started with so much joy, ended with Annie holding a dead child in her arms, and trying hopelessly to revive the little one.
She was staying at her mother's house, cared for by her mother, until recently when, although still quite ill, she began serving the 10 day jail sentence imposed upon her for her part in a minor skirmish on the picket line several weeks ago. Annie suffers in a dirty cold jail cell for a minor offense while no attempt is made to locate and charge the man with the Citizens Alliance button who cried "fire" at a party for children, killing 73 men, women and children
SOURCE
Annie Clemenc
& the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike
-by Lyndon Comstock
SC, 2013
Photo: Annie Clemenc
http://thelaborhalloffame.org/...
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Friday January 17, 2014
Annie Clemenc, Joe Clemenc, and Frank Shaws:
While in jail Annie was visited often by Frank Shaws, the editor of Proletarec, the Slovenian language newspaper of the Yugoslav Socialist Federation (JSZ.) Shaws had been in the strike zone since October reporting on the strike. Her husband Joe Clemenc did not visited her. By February, Annie was pregnant and named Shaws as the father. After the strike, she divorced Joe Clemenc, married Shaws, and moved with him to Chicago. Their daughter, Darwina (Dot) was born October 30, 1914.
SOURCE
see Comstock above
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The Last Rose of Summer-John McDermott
I'll not leave thee thou lone one
To pine on the stem
Since the lovely are sleeping
Go sleep thou with them
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o'er the bed
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead
-Thomas Moore