Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones announces in Pittsburgh, "I'm going back to West Virginia!"

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Tuesday May 19, 1903
Chicago, Illinois - Kohlsaat Closes All Bake Shops Connected to Lunchrooms
Kohlsaat has closed all company bakeries connected with its lunchrooms. According to The New York Times:

The Bakers had voted to walk out in sympathy with the colored waiters and to forestall this movement the company decided to lock out its employees.

The lock-out affects all employees from the office men, to the drivers, and even the laundry girls and scrubwomen. The tie-up appears to be complete, and this could become a long drawn-out fight.

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Sunday May 19, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Today we are talking about the scandals again. I was getting kind of annoyed that there was a long talk about Obama's pol numbers not going down and how silly all the scandals are as if the AP scandal was small. BS. There was also a talk about Bangladesh worker safety, workers, regulations, and wage which was good. I am not a fan of Karl Smith's neoliberal claptrap though and that comes off now on #Uppers.

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Weekend Question Open Thread

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Well, it's the height of Prom season, so my question is gonna go with that theme.

Did your school have a Prom and did you go? What was the theme? And what did you wear? What did you do afterward if it's not too private and you can remember, lol...?

Don't be embarrassed - we're all fashion victims of whatever was worn at the time... powder blue tuxes, chiffon, dresses that looked like lace threw up on them, etc...

 

 

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Hellraisers Journal: Socialist Newspaper Editor Faces 15 Years

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You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Monday May 18, 1903
Denver, Colorado - Citizens Alliance Gives Ultimatum to Unionized Business
The Citizens Alliance recently sent a committee around to various unionized businesses. They gave various firms a deadline by which they must end all of their union contracts or suffer the consequences: they would no longer have buyers for their products, and prices on their supplies would be raised. This proved too much even for the conservative Denver Post which exclaimed, "If these steps had been taken by unions, all the better class, so-called, in the city would be loud in denouncing them." The Citizens Alliance responded by instructing the Denver Advertisers' Association to see to it that newspapers in Denver learn the advantage of remaining friendly to the "business interests."

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Saturday May 18, 2013: Up with Steve Kornacki Tweets

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Today's #Uppers was on the 3 scandals that the Obama administration is dealing with right now via the IRS, Benghazi, and the one that matters, the AP scandal where the DOJ ignored post Watergate regulations in seizing their phone records because of a leak they knew was going to be released. This problem with overzealousness over leaks from this administration has implications for everyone given what has happened to Bradley Manning and more whistle blowers than any other administration, especially one claiming to be the most transparent ever.

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Sex change surgery performed on 16-month-old South Carolina child without consent

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photo MCBIKE_zps88641981.jpgM. C. Crawford is 8 years old. He was Identified as a male at birth until doctors determined that he had ambiguous genitalia, with parts of both female and male reproductive structures. When a court terminated the parental rights of his mother and he was abandoned by his father, he was placed in state custody. At 16 months old doctors removed his penis and one testicle, leaving enough to form a clitoris and labia. A bit after that the child was adopted in South Carolina by Pam and Mark Crawford.

The first thought that I had was, let's make sure they don't do the surgery.

--Pam Crawford

Unfortunately the Crawfords were too late. They raised M. C. as a girl until about a year ago, when he told his parents he wanted to be raised as a boy.

On Tuesday lawyers for the Crawford family said they were filing suit against the Department of Social Services.

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Hellraisers Journal: CWA holds rally in West Virginia

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You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Sunday May 17, 1903
Pennsylvania - Mother Jones and Her Armies of "Wild Women."
Mother often receives the call for help from strikers in Pennsylvania, "For God's sake, come over to my area." And she answers the call whenever she can. No area is too dangerous for Mother Jones. In Roaring Branch, Hazleton, Wilkes-Barre, Mount Pleasant, Arnot, Shamokin, Coaldale, Scranton, and other towns and hamlets, Mother Jones has been busy the past few years aiding the miners in their struggles to win decent pay and better working conditions. She has led armies of women over the hills to drive out scabs. John Mitchell as President of the UMWA has received word on more than one occasion about "Mother Jones raising hell up in the mountains with a bunch of wild women." Even the brutal company gunmen have been known to panic when approached by Mother Jones and her armies of "wild women."

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