You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday December 12, 1903
Cripple Creek, Colorado - Citizens' Alliance Threatens Firms Not Belonging to Alliance
We have received the following report from Mrs. Emma F. Langdon of Victor regarding the growth of the Citizens' Alliance in Cripple Creek:
The Citizens' Alliance held a weekly meeting in the Alliance hall on the night of December 8, pursuant to a signed call by the secretary, L. F. Parsons. An astonishing feature of the call was the concluding paragraph which read word for word as follows: "We herewith enclose you a list of the firms that do not belong to the Alliance. You can govern yourselves accordingly." Then followed a list of seventy business firms of Cripple Creek. By reference to the constitution and by-laws of that organization, the inconsistency of the Alliance becomes apparent at once. Article II reads as follows: "Section 1. The objects of the Alliance are: 1. To promote the stability of business and the steady employment of labor, whether organized or unorganized, by encouraging friendly relations between employers and employes; and to discourage lockouts, strikes and boycotts and all kindred movements which savor of persecution."
[emphasis in original]
And Mrs Langdon further reports that D. C. Copley of Independence was "necessitated" to the bullpen from his home at 1:30 a. m. this morning. The military broke down the door to his home where he was having a late meal with his wife, having just returned from Denver. Brother Copley is a member of the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners. In the bullpen, the men quickly become covered with lice. They strip themselves naked each morning and attempt to remove the lice as best they can. The military has begun deporting union miners from the strike zone, and from their homes. It is expected that Brother Copley will get the same treatment later today. They are told to leave town and "never come back."
Brother A. G. Paul, secretary of No. 40, was "necessitated" by the military on December 10th; he is being held temporarily in the county jail, and what his fate will be, we do not know.
SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
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Friday December 12, 1913
The Keweenaw, Michigan - Raids Continue Against Union and Socialist Halls and Homes
"Law and Order" Courtesy
of the Citizens' Alliance
-Ryan Walker
In spite of the injunction granted by Judge O'Brien, raids continue against the Western Federation of Miners and their Socialist allies. There is no-one to arrest the members of the Citizens' Alliance or the Waddell men, for the Sheriff and his deputies are participating in these raids. The union hall in South Range which is shared with the Socialist, has been attacked. The door was broken down without a warrant and shots were fired. There were women and children in the hall at the time of the attack. Eighteen Finns were arrested.
The Citizens Alliance has begun using the fire whistles of the various towns to call forth their mobs for riot duty. The Deputies and Waddell men join the fray when summoned.
In Red Jacket, the union relief store was attacked early this morning. The reason being that the union men were reported to have guns. The conclusion being that only those in the mob of the Citizens' Alliance and the imported company gunthugs should have guns. Homes in Franklin, Raymbaultown, Laurium, and Ahmeek, have also been raided without warrants and searched for guns, homes of striking miners, that is, not the homes of scabs, nor of the imported gunthugs, nor of the upstanding citizens of the Citizens' Alliance, nor of the mine operators.
SOURCE
Rebels on the Range
The Michigan Copper Miners' Strike of 1913-1914
-by Arthur W. Thurner
MI, 1984
Cartoon: By Ryan Walker, NYC The Call
http://www.1913strike.mtu.edu/...
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Thursday December 12, 2013
More on Ryan Walker, Radical Cartoonist:
Perhaps the only radical cartoonist more prolific than Art Young was Ryan Walker. Born in 1870 in rural Kentucky, Walker represented a key voice of Midwestern populist-socialism through thousands of cartoons he provided to The Comrade, The National Rip-Saw, The New York Call, The Coming Nation and, most importantly, the Appeal to Reason...
Walker's most lasting legacy was the creation of the first radical comic strip, featuring the misadventure of Henry Dubb, a hapless worker who rejects socialism, unions, and every other avenue to improve his meager lot in life.
SOURCE
Humour and Social Protest
-by Marjolein C 't Hart; Dennis Bos
International Institute of Social History
Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 2007
http://books.google.com/...
Images for Ryan Walker, Cartoonist
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Vigilante Man-Ry Cooder
Well, what is a vigilante man?
Tell me, what is a vigilante man?
Has he got a gun and a club in his hand?
Is that is a vigilante man?
-Woody Guthrie