Tuesday October 20, 1903
Indianapolis, Indiana - National Officers of the U. M. W. of A. Consider Strike in Colorado
Meeting in a long conference yesterday the executive officers of the United Mine Workers of America took up the question of calling a strike in Colorado. President John Mitchell, Vice-President Thomas Lewis, and Secretary William B. Wilson were given the authority to call a strike of the Colorado coal miners by the executive board of the miners' union last week. That power was granted to these three officers to become effective at the end of a week which ended last Saturday.
And from the Reading Times comes this encouraging news:
Pottsville, [Pennsylvania], Oct. 18-Ten thousand breaker boys of this district are to be organized by the United Mine Workers. A special order has been secured from President Mitchell by which the initiation fee has been reduce for the purpose.
SOURCES
The Indianapolis [IN] News
-of October 19, 1903
Reading Times [PA]
-of Oct 19, 1903
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Monday October 20, 1913
From The Scranton Truth: "New Use for the People's Forum"
The Scranton Truth of Pennsylvania is celebrating the closing of Union Square, known as the People's Forum, a place for peaceful assembly, free speech, and protests. The Square will remain closed for some time due to construction on the New York subway. This is viewed as wonderful news, according to "truth-bearer" of Scranton:
The Union Square "regulars" are disconsolate. They cannot tell how long their favorite loafing place will be cluttered up with the construction work. All Winter, at the least, the place will be filled with the temporary buildings and noisy with the clank of machinery. It is no place now for an easy-loving hobo or a vociferous I. W. W., and there is no telling when it will be again....
The Industrial Workers of the World found Union Square a fertile spot to sow their seed. Organized labor, on the first Monday of each September used the place for speeches after the Labor Day parade, and lastly came the suffragists, They held several meetings in the Square, their women orators addressing the crowds that were always ready to gather in the square at the slightest provocation.
Many Riotous Scenes
Many times there have been riotous scenes in Union Square, Emma Goldman has preached there. The police have often been called upon to preserve order, and violent speakers have been arrested. Once Sheriff Harberger surrounded the place with his deputies and arrests were made when an I. W. W. speaker trod on the flag.
I.W.W. Paterson Strikers
March in New York City
With American Flag
Ah, yes, of course, in the interest of TRUTH,
The Scranton Truth must mention the flag incident. But left out of the story are the
agents provocateurs who love to attach themselves to the I. W. W. and other unions. Also not mentioned are the many American flags held aloft during I. W. W. marches, or that the I. W. W. leaders want no disrespect shown to the flag. Or that the I. W. W. strikers in Paterson were proud to point out that they weave the silk from which the flag is made.
SOURCES
The Scranton [PA] Truth
-of October 20, 1913
History of the Labor Movement in the United States Vol. 4
The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917
-by Philip S Foner
International Pub, 1965
Photo: War in Paterson
http://makingpatersonstrike.org/
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Sunday October 20, 2013
More on the IWW Paterson Silk Strikers and the American Flag
On June 7, 1913 the strikers boarded a train in Paterson, transferred in Hoboken to a ferry that docked at Christopher Street, and began to walk up Fifth Avenue toward the Garden. They planned the march as part of the Pageant festivities, a rally to generate further publicity for the performance and their cause. The strikers accentuated their role as silk workers by waving American flags and wearing patriotic ribbons with the slogan, "We weave the flag/ We live under the flag/ We die under the flag/ But damn'd if we'll starve under the flag...
SOURCE
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America, p.102
By Christin Essin
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
http://books.google.com/...
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Bread and Roses-Boston Workmen's Circle
Boston Workmen's Circle A Besere Velt (A Better World) Yiddish Chorus, performs "Bread and Roses/Makhnes Geyen" at the Rosenberg Fund for Children's "Celebrate the Children of Resistance" event in Boston, MA, June 19, 2007. The song is a ballad from the 1912 Lawrence, MA textile strike, woven together with an anthem dedicated to the fighters in the Spanish Civil War. "The masses are marching in the struggle for victory." www.rfc.or
12:19 PM PT: The Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) is a 501 (c)(3), non-profit, public foundation that makes grants to aid children in the U.S. whose parents are targeted, progressive activists. We also assist youth who themselves have been targeted as a result of their progressive activities. Donations to the RFC are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
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