The IWW has been accused of pushing women to the front.
This is not true.
Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so
they have naturally moved to the front.
-Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Saturday July 3, 1915
Chicago, Illinois - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Returns from Western Speaking Tour
Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I. W. W. organizer and speaker, left Chicago in April and headed out west. She blazed a trail across Kansas speaking on "Labor Solidarity" and visited with Fellow Worker Joe Hill in the Salt Lake County Jail. She spoke in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and in Portland, Oregon.
On her way back to Chicago, she spoke in Kansas City as reported by June 28th edition of The Salina Evening Journal of Kansas:
Women Organizer Will Unionize
Harvest Cooks This Season.
Kansas City, June 28.-Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is going into the harvest hand situation. As a labor leader she was active in Paterson and New York.
"We have organizers throughout the wheat district," she said yesterday, previous to her address at the Commercial Travelers' hall, Twelfth and Central streets. "Our men are going to demand a wage of $3 a day for ten hours' work, with overtime demands of 50 cents an hour. The organization is proceeding rapidly."
Miss Flynn's first efforts will be in regard to the women cooks for the harvest gangs.
"Kansas has sent out a call for a thousand women cooks to make pies and cakes and delicacies for the harvest hands," she said. "Heretofore only men cooks have been employed. They have obtained $5 a day for their sixteen hours' grind. Now it is proposed to pay the women half that amount-$2.50 a day. That is not just."
Thursday's Chicago
Day Book announced her return to that city:
TWO FLYNN DATES
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who recently returned from a trip through the west, will speak Thursday evening at 644 W. 12th st. on "Revolutionary I. W. W." The meeting will be under the auspices of Polish, Hungarian, Jewish and Russian societies.
She will speak Friday night at Hod Carrier's Hall, Green and Harrison sts., on "Women in the Labor Movement."
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SOURCES
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography,
My first life (1906-1926)
-by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
International Publishers, 1973
https://books.google.com/...
The Salina Evening Journal
(Salina, Kansas)
-June 28, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jul 1, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGE
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
Fort Wayne (IN) News of Mar 20, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
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The Western Tour of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
HJ: Monday April 12, 1915
Chicago, Illinois - I. W. W. Organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn On Speaking Tour
-will speak in Chicago on April 16 per
Day Book.
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HJ: Thursday April 22, 1915
From the Chicago Day Book: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Wants Women on the Picket Line
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April 29, 1915
From the Fort Scott Daily Tribune Monitor:
EGF lectures at Court House in Fort Scott, Kansas on "Solidarity-Labor's Road to Freedom."
Large photo.
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HJ: Tuesday May 11, 1915
Salt Lake City, Utah - The Rebel Girl, Herself, Visits Joe Hill in the County Jail
http://www.dailykos.com/...
HJ: Saturday May 15, 1915
San Francisco - EGF speaks, scores Billy Sunday.
Source: Santa Ana Register of May 14th
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Sunday May 23, 1915
From The Oregon Journal of Portland, Oregon:
EGF spoke yesterday to the Oregon Civic League at the Multnomah Hotel.
States: "Labor is the foundation of society."
http://www.newspapers.com/...
HJ: Sunday May 23, 1915
From Solidarity (of May 22): "A Visit to Joe Hill" by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
http://www.dailykos.com/...
HJ: Friday June 25, 1915
The Pacific Northwest - The Pullman Herald Sounds the Alarm
about "A New Microbe"
Source: The June 25th Pullman Herald of Pullman, WA-an article linking
Sabotage, a pamphlet written by EGF, to the announced organizing campaign of
harvest workers to be undertaken by the newly formed Agricultural Workers
Organization (IWW) in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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The Rebel Girl - Janne Lærkedahl
That’s the Rebel Girl, the Rebel Girl!
To the working class, she’s a precious pearl.
She brings courage, pride and joy
To the fighting Rebel Boy
We’ve had girls before, but we need some more
In the Industrial Workers of the World.
For it’s great to fight for freedom
With a Rebel Girl.
-Joe Hill
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