Reposted from Hellraisers Journal by JayRaye You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

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Thursday October 7, 1915
Chicago, Illinois - Ten-Year-Old Boy Killed as Police Ride Down Garment Strikers

From the Chicago Day Book of
     September 30th:

BOY DEAD AFTER COPS' RUSH IN MONSTER STRIKE

One fatality resulted from the riot which occurred late yesterday afternoon in the clothing workers' strike. When a striker was shot and police charged the crowd, Leo Schroeder, 10, fled into a small shack, which collapsed shortly afterward from press of the mob. The boy's body was found in the ruins today.

Police Ride Down Strikers:

A group of strikers, singing and cheering, walked past the tailoring shop of John Sokolowsky at 1634 W. North av. last night. Sokolowsky kept looking anxiously at his group of employes who have not yet walked out. When some of them became restless he asked the police to get rid of the strikers. The police detailed at his shops went out on the sidewalks and used their clubs to scatter the crowd. Several mounted men rode out of a side street and up on the sidewalk.

The crowd laughed as it ran. Sokolowsky became mad. He took his gun and went out on the street and fired into the crowd.

Before the police could take the gun away from him he had shot Sam Lerner, a striking presser of Kuppenheimer's vest shop, in the right leg. Lerner was taken to the hospital and Sokolowsky was arrested.

The Sunwatch Archaeological Park, in Dayton OH, is the site of a Native American Village dating to around 1200 CE, from the period known as "Fort Ancient". It was discovered in the 1960's, but wasn't excavated until the 1970's, when a sewage treatment plant was scheduled to be built on the site. A team of archaeologists undertook an emergency excavation, but found the village so well-preserved that they were able to have the Federal Government list it on the National Register of Historic Places, and were able to excavate the entire site. Today, some of the artifacts recovered during the dig are on display at the site museum, while a series of reconstructed thatched shelters have been built on the site.

It is, alas, in an industrial part of town and is sort of hard to find. I asked four different bus drivers how to get to it, and none of them had ever even heard of it.  Just goes to show--no matter where you are, there are probably some cool things around that you don't even know about.  ;)

Here are some photos from a visit.

While the forests of Central and South America are home to dozens of parrot species, only one, the Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) ever made it to the United States. Once found in the eastern US from Florida all the way to New York and Wisconsin, and as far west as Colorado, the Carolina Parakeet was completely extinct by the 1920's. Today, it exists only in museums.

Reposted from Hellraisers Journal by JayRaye
The coal miners of Colorado are not seeking charity, they want justice.
-John R Lawson

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Wednesday October 6, 1915
From The New York Times: John R Lawson Condemns the Rockefeller Plan

A statement released by John R. Lawson makes clear the opinion of the imprisoned labor leader regarding Rockefeller's industrial plan. From The New York Times of October 3rd:

LAWSON CONDEMNS PLAN.
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Lacks Essentials of Real Collective Bargaining, He Says.

TRINIDAD, Col., Oct. 2.-John R. Lawson, international board member of the United Mine Workers of America, confined in the county jail here awaiting decision of the Supreme Court on his application for a new trial on the charge of murder, made a statement tonight relative to the Rockefeller industrial plan.

[He declared:]

The plan is not practical...and will not prove the factor to promote industrial peace in Colorado, because it does not contain the essentials of collective bargaining, but rather attempts to substitute paternalism for democracy, or philanthropy for justice.

The coal miners of Colorado are not seeking charity, they want justice. They are only asking the same rights that the officials of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company claim for themselves, the right to join the organization of their choice, which is provided for by statute in Colorado. They demand the privilege of selling their labor through the medium of collective bargaining. They desire an organization on each side equal in strength, with a sense of equity to govern a contract that is binding on both sides.

This new plan of labor union, built along the lines of the old Provincial Workmen's Association of Canada, now defunct, will not do in Colorado. Without an organization there is amassed on one side all the wealth and power, on the other are grouped the partially organization employes, without any real organization behind them.

Referring to that part of the plan which says that the company will pay the expenses of miners' representatives to the conferences and reimburse them for time lost, Mr. Lawson said:

It will be a hopeless task, indeed, if safe representatives cannot be found under this benevolent plan. No intelligent person is going to be deceived by this subterfuge.

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[Photograph added.]

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They're thirsty for the blood of Joe Hill because
he stirs up rebellion among workingmen.
-Big Bill Haywood

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Tuesday October 5, 1915
From the Chicago Day Book: Big Bill Rails Against Utah Supreme Court Judge

In the October 2nd edition of The Day Book, we find the reaction of Big Bill Haywood, General Secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World, to a recent statement made by Judge W. M. McCarthy of the Supreme Court of Utah. The Judge stated on October 1st:

There is no doubt in my mind that the lawless element with which Hillstrom is associated, the I. W. W., will construe Gov. Spry's action in granting reprieve [of the death sentence] at request of President Wilson as tacit approval of their course and methods.

Hundreds of members of the lawless organization will swarm into this state and use Hillstrom as an excuse to create a reign of terror such as Coeur D'Alene, San Diego, Seattle and Goldfield.

Haywood held up a copy of the statement and shouted:

Read it. Read it alone in a quiet place. You'll get a feeling that what this supreme court judge of Utah wants is a drinking cup full of the warm, red blood of Joe Hill.

In other news regarding ongoing efforts to save the life of Joe Hill, Orrin N. Hilton met with Big Bill in Chicago on October 3rd, and the Swedish Minister, W. A. F. Ekengren, met with a state department official yesterday in Washington, D. C.

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The governor of Colorado...would betray God Almighty Himself if it was made of
pecuniary or political benefit or demanded by the corporations.
-Mother Jones

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Monday October 4, 1915
From the Duluth Labor World: "Mother Jones Raps Colorado Governor"

In this weeks edition of The Labor World, we find an account of the activities of Mother Jones while in Colorado a few weeks ago. Mother, who is a former schoolteacher, took up her ruler and applied a few good raps upon the knuckles of Governor Carlson:

The governor of Colorado is a lapdog of the corporations and absolutely has betrayed the people who elected him, and his action in so doing has proven to me that he would betray God Almighty Himself if it was made of pecuniary or political benefit or demanded by the corporations.

I've rather felt sorry for Governor Ammons. He was a poor, unsophisticated country weakling, and we can forgive him for his errors. But this new governor had an example before him. He has no excuse for prostituting the honor of the state as he has done by turning his authority over to the corporations.

He went east and attempted to draw pay from the state while he was preaching the doctrine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company in Brooklyn.

By the time that John D. Jr. arrived in Colorado, Mother had left state. As reported in The Washington Times of September 30th, she regrets not being there in Colorado with the younger Mr. Rockefeller in order to show him what he really needs to see:

Dancing with the mine boss' wife, and borrowing the mine superintendent's nightgown when he sleeps in his cabin will not put any more food in the stomachs of the underpaid miner and his wife and babies...It will not end the injustices suffered by the men who have been treated as serfs, and who lived through the horrible scenes at Ludlow when their wives and babies were murdered by the hired gunmen of the mine owners.

I wish I had known Rockefeller was coming out when I was in Colorado two weeks ago. I should have staid out there and made it my business to see that Rockefeller saw the things he should see and heard the things they are keeping from him now...He can't expect to learn anything about conditions on a excursion like this that is personally conducted by his hired men.

Reposted from Hellraisers Journal by JayRaye It is a privilege and a duty even by sacrifice to advance our priceless cause.
-John R Lawson

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Sunday October 3, 1915
From the Chicago Day Book: Interview with John R. Lawson from Behind Bars

The Day Book of September 29th carried the following interview of John R. Lawson conducted by Edward T. Leech from within the Trinidad, Colorado, jailhouse:

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., AND JOHN LAWSON
-HOW THESE TWO MEN LINE UP

BY EDWARD T. LEECH

Trinidad, Colo., Sept.29.-While John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is completing his campaign for friendship, the thing which he found his millions couldn't buy, John R. Lawson, his leading opponent in the industrial strife which drenched Colorado with blood, is lying in the little jail here, confined in the same quarters with 25 other prisoners.

While Rockefeller lived in ease at the Cardenas hotel., Trinidad's best hostelry, Lawson gazed through the barred windows of a little stone jail which was built 30 years ago and has been condemned by the Colorado prison board as unsanitary and unfit for habitation.

While Rockefeller took long auto trips through the bracing air of southern Colorado, visiting his mining camps which dot the country down here, Lawson paced the roof of a tier of cells and breathed his only fresh air through a hole cut in the rear wall of the jail.

On the 23, of September, 1913, the miners of southern Colorado went out on strike. Two years later to a day I was ushered through a little, black corridor to an iron door, with a little, square, barred grating. John Lawson thrust his hand between the bars, smiled and said: "Welcome."

"Never better," he said, in answer to a question as to his health, and he looked it. Big, square-shouldered, John Lawson has a battle to fight yet. He feels that the fight has just begun, and he's keeping in condition.

[He said:]

I walk all I can in this limited spaceI keep by the window and get fresh air...And, above all, I'm optimistic-so I manage to keep in good health.

[Continued below.]

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March on, march on, you mighty host,
And organize from coast to coast;
and Joe Hill's spirit soon shall see
Triumphant Labor's victory.
 -John Nordquist

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Saturday October 2, 1915
From Deseret Evening News: Utah Governor & Swedish Minister Exchange Telegrams

Today we offer the second part of an article in the September 30th edition of the the Deseret Evening News wherein it was announced that Fellow Worker Joe Hill had been granted a last minute reprieve through the intervention of President Wilson at the request of the the Swedish Minister to the United States.

The article concludes with an exchange of telegrams between Minister Ekengren of Sweden and William Spry, Governor of Utah.  On behalf of Joe Hill, a subject of Sweden, the Minister expresses his doubts as to whether justice will be served through enactment of the death penalty in this case:

I have read the case of Hillstrom in the Pacific Reporter and must state my opinion that while the procedure might have been perfectly regular, the evidence on which the state bases its case is too weak to warrant execution of capital punishment. The evidence is at best only circumstantial, and though I know that there have been cases where convictions of capital crimes have been made on just such evidence, I consider it very grave to do it.

If I understand it, it is the states's duty to prove beyond doubt the guilt of the accused. In this instance it looks as if the burden of proof was on the accused, as if he must prove where he received his wound, etc. His refusal to take the stand on his own behalf seems to have actually, while not expressly, operated against him with both court and jury.

In a lengthy statement, the governor makes the absurd claim that there was direct evidence given against Joe Hill, when, in fact, not one of the states witnesses could positively identify him as one of the men who ran from the store following the murders of Morrison and his son.

The Minister further states:

[I]t seems to be a very serious thing to take a man's life if there is a shadow of doubt as to his guilt.

Utah appears ready to do just that, and to go down in history as the State that murdered Labor's Troubadour, Joe Hill.

Reposted from Native American Netroots by Ojibwa

About 8,000 years ago (6,000 BCE), the American Indian cultures of the Northern Plains and the Columbia Plateau began undergoing a series of major changes. There was a decrease in dependence on big game hunting as the people engaged in a wide range of hunting and gathering patterns.

One of the events of regional importance was the eruption of Mount Mazama in Oregon in 4750 BCE. The volcano crater would later fill with water and become known as Crater Lake. The volcanic ash from this eruption covered much of the region, including parts of Montana. For today’s archaeologists, this ash layer provides a way of dating some archaeological sites.

Briefly described below are some of the Montana sites between 6000 BCE and 3000 BCE.

Reposted from Daily Kos by Denise Oliver Velez The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death," after a meeting of the Medical Committee on Human Rights in 1966.  

Nearly 50 years later we see people across the U.S. still fighting the battle for their health care as extremist politicians in Congress continue to wage war against Obamacare, and state legislatures block Medicaid expansion, denying health care to hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens.

Rarely do we think of the struggle for health care as part of the ongoing civil rights movement, but it is a key element. Nowhere can we see that illustrated more clearly than in North Carolina, where Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-dominated General Assembly have blocked Medicaid expansion.

Rural hospitals are at risk, affecting health care for citizens who are white, black, latino, Asian and Native American, many of whom live below the poverty line, and are the "working poor."

The National Rural Health Association has identified 283 more rural hospitals across the country that are in danger of going under—more than 10% of all such facilities. The group found that the financial conditions of the hospitals just hanging on are similar to facilities that already have closed.  

In North Carolina, the Republican mayor of the town of Belhaven, Adam O'Neal, has been fighting alongside the Moral Mondays movement to save their local hospital, Pungo, which was closed by Vident Health.

Read on for more on the battle to save Pungo, the latest victory, and the history of health care and civil rights.

Reposted from Shutterbugs by Ojibwa

During the 1920s and 1930s light duty trucks—commonly known as pickups—became firmly entrenched in American culture. Pickups became an indispensible part of farm life and were common used for deliveries in urban areas. In addition, some brave souls began to modify them for camping, anticipating the birth of the recreational vehicle industry. Shown below are some of the pickups from this era which are on display in a number of automobile museums.  

Reposted from Kossack Air Force by Lenny Flank

The US Air Force Museum is located in Dayton OH, on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Since it is huge, I am breaking it down into sections. Here are some photos from the "World War Two" Gallery.