You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Monday August 10, 1903
Cripple Creek, Colorado - Western Federation of Miners On Strike Once Again!
The deadline for Charles MacNeill, manager of the Standard Mill, to rehire the smeltermen fired for joining the union has long since come and gone. The smeltermen resumed their strike on July 3rd, and today the W.F. of M. called out all of the miners who provide ore to the the Standard Mill. In a great show of Solidarity with the smeltermen, the miners laid down their tools and headed for the picket line.
SOURCE
Roughneck
The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood
-by Peter Carlson
NY, 1983
Sunday August 10, 1913
Marysville, California - I.W.W. Hop-pickers Martyred in Wheatland Last Sunday.
On the Durst Brothers' Ranch at Wheatland which is near Marysville, farm workers were on strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The struggle was over wages and the practice of withholding part of the wages until the end of season, forfeited should the picker not finish the season for any reason. On Saturday evening, August 2nd, a protest meeting was held, led by Richard "Blackie" Ford and Herman D. Suhr. Another meeting was called for the next morning, Sunday August the 3rd and demands were issued.
This so enraged Ralph Durst that he struck Ford and called in the law to have him arrested. No arrest warrant was presented, and, therefore, picketers would not allow the arrest.
A meeting, held later that afternoon, was attacked by the local sheriff and his deputies. Strikers resisted the attack which led to the deaths of a district attorney, a deputy sheriff and two hop-pickers. The martyred hop-pickers have not been identified, but we do know that one was Puerto Rican and the other was English. Many more hop-pickers were injured.
Hop-pickers are being rounded up in the area, held incommunicado, and there are allegations of beatings and torture. A man-hunt is on for Ford and Suhr.
SOURCE
The History of the Labor Movement in the United States
The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917
-by Philip S Foner
International Pub, 1965
Hellraisers Journal on vacation!
Hellraisers will appear in abbreviated form until Sept 2nd for a vacation of sorts. A total vacation is not possible since the capitalist never took any time off in their suppression of the U.S.labor movement.
Solidarity,
JayRaye