You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday March 25, 1904
From the El Paso Herald: Strikes Will Continue Despite Peabody's Military Despotism
MINERS WILL AGAIN ASK FOR FEDERAL TROOPS
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Think Condition Has Changed In Colorado and That
Roosevelt Will Accede To The Demand.
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Denver, Colo., March 24.-Governor Peabody announced at noon today that he would send 275 more men to Telluride this afternoon. "The miners may return if they behave themselves," he said.
Assertions are made by union men that the governor put Telluride under martial law again to prevent the injunction issued against the citizens of that town from becoming operative. This move was anticipated by the Western Federation and an appeal for federal aid will be made.
Applications for federal troops have been made twice in the past year, once by the governor and once by the labor unions. In both instances the request was denied.
Union men think that the circumstances have so changed that a demand on the president will be favorably considered.
Miners Will Continue Strike.
Trinidad, Colo., March 24.-The delegate convention of district 15, U. M. W. America, met at 10 this morning with permission of Major Hill. Over a hundred delegates were present when the convention was called to order. A committee on credentials was appointed and the meeting adjourned till this afternoon.
"Mother Jones" states that had the militia not been called she believes the delegates were disposed to modify their demands, but so far as she could see now their disposition would be to continue the strike on the present basis.
Charles Demolli, probably the most influential of Italians, says the general sentiment will be to continue the strike without retreating from the original position of the union.
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SOURCE
El Paso Herald
(El Paso, Texas)
-of Mar 24, 1904
evening paper
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Wednesday March 25, 1914
Cincinnati, Ohio - Annie Clemenc Continues on Tour with Ella Reeve Bloor
Ella Reeve Bloor, 1910
Annie Clemenc
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From The Cincinnati Enquirer: Big Annie Speaks before the Labor Council:
"BIG ANNIE" CLEMENC
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"Big Annie" Clemenc of union circle fame, addressed the Central Labor Council last night and told of conditions during the recent Calumet strike.
A mass meeting, to be attended by all union members, was called for Friday night at Teamsters' Hall, Twelfth street. A committee was named to investigate municipal ownership.
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The speaking tour on behalf of the striking Michigan Copper Miners continues. The departure of Annie Clemenc and Ella Reeve Bloor from Calumet was announce in the March 4th edition of the Miner's Bulletin:
Mrs. Ella Reeve Bloor, a magazine writer who has been in the strike zone for the past three weeks, left Thursday [February 26] for Chicago and the Ohio Valley to solicit funds for the copper strike. She was accompanied by Annie Clemenc, the heroine of the the strike.
Mother Bloor gave this colorful description of their first meeting after arriving in Chicago:
The first night in Chicago Annie spoke to a teamsters' union of about 2500 members. I warned her beforehand, "Annie, talk to these men just like you talk to your fellow union members in Calumet; but, whatever you do, don't say anything about 'scab priests.' These men are mostly Catholics." Annie, a Catholic herself, said, "I will try not to, Mother, but I can't help it. It makes me so mad when I think of priests trying to make the men scab." She had no more than started, when she sailed into the "scab priests." The men just laughed.
The Western Federation of Miners has advanced the two women $355 to cover the expenses for the tour, hoping that they will be able to raise funds for the strike by passing the hat at union meetings. They have already spoken to various labor organizations in Milwaukee, Chicago, Indiana, and Ohio, and are expected to travel to Pennsylvania, West Virginia , and Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Ella Reeve Bloor has been covering the Michigan Copper Strike for the Socialist Press.
SOURCES
The Cincinnati Enquirer
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
-of Mar 25, 1914
Annie Clemenc
& the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike
-by Lyndon Comstock, 2013
Rebels on the Range
-by Arthur W Thurner
MI, 1984
We Are Many: An Autobiographyr
-by Ella Reeve Bloor
International Publishers, 1940
Photos:
Ella Reeve Bloor, 1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Annie Clemenc with Her Flag
http://thelaborhalloffame.org/...
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