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 19, 1904
Trinidad, Colorado - Miners Defeated in the Southern Colorado Coalfields
From today's Decatur, Illinois, Daily Review:
COLORADO COAL STRIKE IS OVER.
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Big Corporations Broke it After Year's Fight.
Trinidad, Colo., Oct. 19.-It is admitted by officers of the local coal miners' union that the strike which began nearly a year ago is at an end. The executive committee of District 15, United Mine Workers of America, met at Pueblo a few days ago and considered the situation in secret session.
The strike was not formally declared off, but following the meeting the miners on strike were informed that they could accept the work without any danger of being called upon to turn in their union cards. The various fuel companies worked together to break the strike, which was confined to the southern Colorado field, although District 15 includes Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Though the task was expensive, the companies succeeded in attaining the normal production several months ago since which time the ultimate failure of the strike has been apparent to the public.
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SOURCE
The Daily Review
(Decatur, Illinois)
-of Oct 19, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
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Monday October 19, 1914
From Duluth's Labor World: Haywood and St. John Ordered to Return $15,000
Mass Parade during Lawrence Textile Strike
I. W. W. HEADS CITED TO PAY $15,000 TAKEN
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Industrial Workers of the World leaders who handled the money contributed for the relief of the strikers during the industrial conflict at Lawrence, Mass., in 1912 were ordered by Judge Hammond of the Supreme Court at Boston to return $15,000 to the court within ten days.
This actin is understood to be preliminary to the ordering of contempt proceedings against Bill Haywood, Vincent St. John and other leaders of the I. W. W.
The court ruled last March that the defendants had failed satisfactorily to account for the money which they received as trustees of the relief fund and ordered them to return $15,000.
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SOURCE
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota & Superior, Wisconsin)
-of Oct 17, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
For more on the Lawrence Textile Strike:
1). "Lawrence Strike" by Mary Heaton Vorse
https://www.marxists.org/...
2). Speech of Wm. D. Haywood
on Case of Ettor and Giovannitti,
May 21, 1912 at Cooper Union, New York
https://archive.org/...
3). Report on strike of textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., in 1912
United States. Bureau of Labor, Charles Patrick Neill
Govt. Print. Off., 1912
4). Arrows in the Gale
-by Arturo M. Giovannitti
Hillacre Bookhouse, 1914
http://books.google.com/...
IMAGE
Mass Parade during Lawrence Textile Strike
http://reuther.wayne.edu/...
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Bread and Roses-Kate Vikstrom
As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for -- but we fight for roses, too!
-James Oppenheim
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