You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday October 6, 1903
From The International Socialist Review: S. P. of A. Organizing Work Progressing
In the current issue of the Review, William Mailly, National Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, discusses plans to increase the Party's national organizing work:
The contribution of one thousand dollars by Comrade J. A. Wayland of the Appeal to Reason to the National Organizing Fund comes in good season. It comes at a time when most needed and when it can be put to the best uses for the Socialist Party, which is the concrete expression of the Socialist movement in America. While it is no exaggeration to say that the organizing work carried on by the National Socialist Party during the past eight months has exceeded that performed in any similar length of time before, yet even this was not all that was needed or desired to be done. It is simple enough to inaugurate a work of this kind; the great difficulty comes in continuing it after it has begun. It was quite impossible to satisfy all sections requiring or asking for organizers at once and the same time. The number of organizers employed was not sufficient to go around, the territory to be covered too large, and the resources of the national office too limited....
Comrade Mailly describes specific organizers to be hired and territories to be covered. Several state organizers will be hired as national organizers, thereby giving the more experienced national organizers smaller territories to cover. A plan is being developed to cover most of the country:
A study of these plans will show that within the next six months every state and territory will have received visits from national organizers or will be supporting organizers of their own. Comrades must bear in mind that every place cannot be visited AT ONCE. The national office cannot assume financial responsibility for any more organizers than it can afford to support. It is most important that the party be kept out of debt. But every place will finally be visited, if the comrades will but realize the immensity of the task we have undertaken and be patient with us.
SOURCE
The International Socialist Review
A Monthly Journal of International Socialist Thought
Volume IV, p.234:
The International Socialist Review
-of October 1903
http://books.google.com/...
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Monday October 6, 1913
Ludlow Colony, Colorado - Louis Tikas Moves into Camp as Leader of the Colony
Louis Tikas moved into the Ludlow Tent Colony today where he will work as a leader of the camp, and as an interpreter for the Greek miners. Less than a year ago, Tikas was working among the strikebreaker in the Northern Field. That all changed last November when he led 63 of his fellow Greek miners out of the Frederick mine. They made their way to the nearby headquarters of the United Mine Workers, and, as a group, they took the pledge.
Louie Tikas with star, John Lawson to left.
Over the next few months, Tikas became a union organizer. Ed Doyle, Secretary of District 15, met Tikas not long after he joined the union and took him on as an interpreter. In August, he was sent to the Southern Field by Doyle to work as an organizer along with Lippiatt, Hebbs, and Petron. Brother Lippiatt was murdered by a gunthug soon after he arrived in Trinidad.
Brother Tikas has also had some experience with the company gunmen. Last January he was shot by a Baldwin-Felts gunthug in Lafayette. Nevertheless, Louie Tikas is still working for the union, and he is not afraid.
SOURCE
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Utah Press, 1982
Photo: google does a fairly good translation!
http://www.tokaravani.gr/...
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Sunday October 6, 2013
More on Louie Tikas from Zeese Papanikolas
Zeese Papanikolas talks about the Greek immigrant, Louis Tikas. Papanikolas is the author of "Buried Unsung," I have a signed copy of this book which I treasure. Mr Papanikolas signed this book for me at the Ludlow Memorial on June 10, 1989.
A happy discovery! A song for Louis Tikas:
This cannot be embed but lyrics and audio are at the link.
Louis Tikas
-by Frank Manning
http://unionsong.com/...
Mourn with me, my sisters and my brothers,
For a leader lying silent in the grave,
A man who lived his whole life saving others,
And, in the end, his life is what he gave.
Louis lived his whole life saving others,
And, in the end, his life is what he gave.