You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday January 30, 1904
From The Labor World: Strikers Wives to be "Bull-Penned" for Shouting at Scabs
General Sherman Bell
by B. S. White
From the latest edition of the Duluth and Superior labor paper:
COLORADO SOLDIERS MAKE WAR
ON WOMEN
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Court Injunction Is Ignored
By State Militia
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Cripple Creek Col, Jan 28.-Col Verdeckberg and all district post commanders held an executive council of war this morning. It was voted to ignore Judge Seed's injunction issued last night, restraining them from interfering or arresting strikers on the vagrant order and to begin wholesaled arrests of unionists at once.
Maj. McClelland, at the head of a detachment of soldiers, left for Victor to begin making arrests.
As soon as the strikers are arrested they will be thrown into the "bull pen" at Camp Garfield, and before any habeas corpus proceedings or other legal steps can be taken to secure their release, they will be placed on a special train and deported from the county and warned not to return under pain of arrest and corporal punishment.
A number of wives of strikers will also be thrown into the "bull pen" and then deported. These women are accused of calling strikebreakers "scabs" and soldiers as "scab herders."
It was also announced that any civil officer who attempts to serve notice of an injunction on the military authorities will be promptly "bull penned."
SOURCE
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-of Jan 30, 1904
Photo: General Sherman Bell by B. S. White
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Friday January 30, 1914
From the Salt Lake Tribune: Joe Hill Bound Over For Trial On Circumstantial Evidence
The preliminary hearing of Fellow Worker Joe Hill was held on Wednesday and the circumstantial evidence offered by the witnesses was deemed sufficient to continue to hold the famous I. W. W. songwriter. FW Hill had only $5.60 on his person when he was arrested, and, therefore, he was forced to act as his own attorney. The following account is from yesterday's edition of the Salt Lake Tribune:
HILLSTROM IS OWN LAWYER AT HEARING
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Man Charged With Murder of J. G. Morrison and Son Is Held to District Court.
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KILLING IS DESCRIBED
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Accused, Acting as Attorney for Himself, Cross-examines Witness of State.
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Joe Hillstrom, charged with the murder of J. G. Morrison, the grocer slain in his store on South West Temple street the night of January 10, was bound over to the district court without bail by Harry S. Harper, justice of the peace, late yesterday afternoon [Wednesday].
Circumstantial evidence tending to show that Hillstrom was one of the two men who entered the little store and without warning shot and killed the grocer and his son, aged 17 years, was introduced by the state.
Hillstrom acted as his own attorney. He appeared without counsel and to repeated inquiries by the court as to whether he desired counsel, he replied that he had no lawyer and wanted none.
Merlin Morrison, the younger boy who was in the store when his father and brother were murdered, was the chief witness for the state. He described the shooting in detail and said that one of the two men resembled Hillstrom in general build and height. He said he heard the first shot fired and turned in time to see the second shot, under which his father crumpled and fell over a sack of potatoes.
Crouched in Doorway
The boy crouched down in the doorway leading to the back room and watched the deadly fire. He told how his brother ran to the back of the store and got his father’s big army gun and began firing, and how the assassins turned their weapons on the lad and silenced him with a volley that killed. Seven shots in all were fired, he testified, adding that the men, one pursuing a wound in his chest, ran from the store less than a minute after they entered with weapons drawn.
The Morrison boy was positive that the man, who he thought resembled Hillstrom, carried a large black automatic revolver. The defendant, according to the officers, has admitted having owned a black automatic revolver but declared he threw it away on his way to Murray.
Hillstrom cross-examined the boy and tried to make the witness admit that after looking at the defendant in the county jail he had told the officers Hillstrom was not one of the assassins. Young Morrison insisted he had said no such thing.
Doctor Testifies.
Dr. Frank McHugh of Murray, whose information to the officers led to the arrest of Hillstrom, proved an important witness. The doctor said that he had just retired about 11:30 o’clock the night of the murder when his door bell rang and Hillstrom came in seeking medical assistance. He bared his chest and revealed an ugly wound in his left breast, ranging up and back. The doctor said he dressed the wound and that just as he finished the work Dr. Arthur Bird stopped in the office. Bird offered to give Hillstrom a lift in his car and Hillstrom accepted, being driven from the home of Dr. McHugh to the home of Esilus, where he was arrested the following day.
Dr. Bird told the same story. Neither of the physicians would hazard an opinion as to the caliber of the bullet that wounded Hillstrom, but both said it was from a large caliber gun. Dr. Bird said that while Hillstrom was putting on his clothes after having his wound dressed he noticed a black automatic revolver in Hillstrom’s pocket.
When he was arrested Hillstrom had no gun. Detective Bert Seager testified that Hillstrom told him at the county jail that he had thrown the gun out of the automobile while riding with Dr. Bird.
Met Two Men.
Frank E. Seeley and Mrs. Seeley testified that just prior to the murder they met two men near the Morrison store and that the men crowded them into the mud on the crossing. One of these men was of the same build as Hillstrom and both had red handkerchiefs around their necks, Seeley said.
John E. Thompson, a boy living on South West Temple street, said that he looked out of a street car window at the corner of Eighth South and West Temple street at 9:30 o’clock and saw two men running south. Each had a red handkerchief around his neck, the boy said.
Mrs. Vera Hansen told of seeing a man run out of the grocery store at 9:30. This man, she said, was slightly doubled up and was holding his chest with his hands. The man called out to someone whom she did not see.
“Would you recognize that voice if you heard it again?” the witness was asked.
“I think I would. I heard a voice that sounded very much like it the next day, “ she said.
“Where was that?”
“At the county jail.”
“Whose voice did you hear at the county jail?”
“This man’s,” the witness replied, pointing to Hillstrom.
H. H. Hall, who lives at 2635 South State street, testified that he saw a man closely resembling Hillstrom get on a State street car at the Denver & Rio Grande track crossing below Twelfth South street at about 10:30 o’clock, the night of the killing. The man boarded the car at the front end and peered back through the car as though looking for someone. Hall said that he noticed the man’s nose, which, he said, bears a marked resemblance to the nose of Hillstrom. Hall also thought the general build of the man he saw corresponded to that of Hillstrom, but he was not positive in his identification.
We will continue our coverage of the preliminary hearing tomorrow.
SOURCES
Salt Lake Tribune
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-of Jan 29, 1914
The Case of Joe Hill
-by Phillip S. Foner
International Publishers, 1965
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Thursday January 30, 2014
Featured Song of Joe Hill:
"Casey Jones, The Union Scab" was first published by the Spokane Local of the I. W. W, as song #1, in an edition of the Little Red Songbook which was advertised in the "Industrial Worker" of July 11, 1912. In his introduction to The Man Who Never Died (NY, 1954), Barrie Stavis wrote:
[With Casey Jones,] Joe Hill's song writing career was launched. The song helped to hold the [1911 San Pedro, CA] strikers together. It was sung by the men on the picket line and by those who were clubbed and thrown into jail. It was printed on colored cards, about the size of a playing card, and sold, the proceeds going to the strike fund. Overnight the song became famous. Migratory laborers carried it on their lips as they moved across the nation; sailors carried it across the ocean.
Casey Jones-The Union Scab
The workers on the S.P. line to strike sent out a call;
But Casey Jones, the engineer, he wouldn't strike at all;
His boiler it was leaking, and its driver's on the bum,
And his engine and its bearings they were all out of plumb.
(Chorus)
Casey Jones kept his junk pile running;
Casey Jones was working double time;
Casey Jones got a wooden medal,
For being good and faithful on the S.P. line.
The workers said to Casey: "Won't you help us win this strike?"
But Casey said: "Let me alone, you'd better take a hike."
Then some on put a bunch of railroad ties across the track,
And Casey hit the river with an awful crack.
(Chorus)
Casey Jones hit the river bottom;
Casey Jones broke his blooming spine;
Casey Jones was an Angeleno,
He took a trip to heaven on the S.P. line.
When Casey Jones got up to heaven to the Pearly Gate,
He said: "I'm Casey Jones, the guy that pulled the S.P. freight."
"You're just the man," said Peter, "our musicians went on strike:
You can get a job a-scabbing any time you like."
(Chorus)
Casey Jones got a job in heaven;
Casey Jones was doing mighty fine;
Casey Jones went scabbing on the angels,
Just like he did to workers on the S.P. line.
The angels got together and they said it wasn't fair
For Casey Jones to go around a-scabbing everywhere.
The Angel Union No. 23, they sure were there,
And they promptly fired Casey down the Golden Stair.
(Chorus)
Casey Jones went to Hell a-flying;
"Casey Jones," the Devil said, "Oh fine;
Casey Jones, get busy shoveling sulfur
That's what you get for scabbing on the S.P. line."
SOURCES
The Big Red Songbook
-ed by Archie Green, David Roediger,
Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno
Charles H Kerr Pub, 2007
Rebel Voices
An IWW Anthology
5. Joe Hill: Wobbly Bard
-ed by Joyce L Kornbluh
Charles H Kerr Pub, 1988
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Casey Jones, The Union Scab-Pete Seeger