You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday October 9, 1903
Cripple Creek District, Colorado - The Women in the Strike Zone Form Auxiliaries
The women of Cripple Creek, Victor and Anaconda are organizing themselves to stand beside their union men. Known as the Women's Auxiliaries to Organized Labor, they will be receiving charters from the Colorado Federation of Labor. Already the women are making their influence felt with the local area business men. Local shop keepers have been quick to sever their ties with the Citizens Alliance when informed that the women will not patronize any business so affiliated. The Auxiliaries are also involved in relief work throughout the strike zone.
SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
Note: the entire text of Langdon's account of these events can be read here:
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
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Thursday October 9, 1913
Hancock, Michigan - Striking Miner Shot by Deputy; Near Death in Local Hospital
Joseph Minerich was shot in the abdomen by a deputy yesterday near Hurontown. He now lies near death in the hospital in Hancock. His brother-in-law, Luka Plese, reports that he and Minerich were walking back to Hurontown form Houghton when they passed Deputy James M. Pollack. Minerich made a remark to the deputy which so inflamed the deputy that he pulled out his gun and shot the striking miner. Minerich, though gravely wounded, was able to return fire. The deputy was shot in the head and died two hours later. Plese and Minerich managed to make their way to a boardinghouse in Hurontown, and Minerich was transported to the hospital. Near death, Brother Joseph Minerich insists that he, alone, is responsible for the shooting of the deputy. Nevertheless, nine union men have been rounded up in connection with the shooting of Deputy Pollack.
Strikers' March in Calumet
SOURCE
Rebels on the Range
-by Arthur W Thurner
MI, 1984
See Also:
Michigan Copper District Strike, p.72
United States Dept. of Labor
http://books.google.com/...
Photo: Many thanks to brand new Kossack, 1913 Strike, for providing this link to the Michigan Tech Archives. There are 17 pages of photos of the Michigan Copper Strike of 1913! Search with "1913 strike" or "copper strike."
The photo above is of a strikers' march in Calumet. There are no photos that I could find of Brother Joesph Minerich. Perhaps he took part in some of the strikers' marches in Calumet or in Houghton, and looked something like this as he marched.
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Wednesday October 9, 2013
Welcome to New Kossack 1913 Strike!
Introducing 1913 Strike's fine web site:
This blog has been established to coordinate and promote commemorative activities relating to the centennial of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Miners’ Strike. More information will be added as it becomes available.
http://1913strike.wordpress.com/
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They'll Never Keep Us Down
Got a contract in our hands
Signed by the blood of union men,
And they'll never shoot that Union out of me.
Hazel Dickens