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| Genre/Form: | Biographies Autobiographies Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. I speak my own piece. New York : Masses & Mainstream, [1955] (OCoLC)652263501 |
| Named Person: | Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Masses & Mainstream, |
| ISBN: | 0717803678 9780717803675 0717803686 9780717803682 |
| OCLC Number: | 1041920 |
| Description: | 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Photographs -- Preface -- Paddy the rebel -- The name "Gurley" -- Shanty and lace curtain Irish -- We go "out west" -- I hate poverty -- Life in the South Bronx -- Not a Catholic -- The spark from anthracite -- Books feed the flames -- My first boy friend -- First speech, 1906 -- "Woman's place" 50 years ago -- Taking children to meetings -- I mount the soap box and get arrested -- "I don't want to be an actress!" -- The east side and "The Revolution" -- "Undesirable citizens" --James Connolly, Irish socialist -- The I.W.W. "stirreth up the people!" -- I meet Tom L. Johnson -- Roaring Pittsburgh -- Red ore for steel, Mesaba range -- Life in Chicago, 1908-1909 -- Mother Jones, labor agitator -- "The Saint" -- Preston-Smith and conspiracy -- Westward ho! -- The migratory workers -- Free speech in Montana -- Defending the constitution in Spokane -- My first conspiracy trial, 1910 -- I meet Tom Mooney -- Marriage goes on the rocks -- Caritas Island -- The girls' strike -- Giants of labor, Haywood and Debs -- I get arrested some more -- The McNamaras plead guilty -- The Lawrence strike of 1912 -- Bill Haywood in Lawrence - "The melting pot boils over" -- "Suffer little children" -- With force and violence -- Aftermath of Lawrence, Lowell and New Bedford -- The Ettor-Giovannitti trial -- "No God! No master!" -- New York cooks and waiters strike -- Paterson Silk strike 1913 -- Jersey justice -- The sabotage issue -- The life of a strike --The pageant -- Free speech in New Jersey -- William Z. Foster and Tom Mann, syndicalists -- The I.W.W. across the nation -- Labor defense in 1913-1914 -- Unemployment demonstrations, 1913-1914 -- 1914: May day in Tampa, Jim Larkin comes to America -- Murder strikes at children -- Joe Hill, martyred troubador of labor -- Our by the Golden Gate -- "He kept us out of war" -- The A.W.O. harvest stiffs organize -- The saint turns prospector -- Blood on the range -- A Solomon's decision -- The Mooney frame-up -- The Everett massacre -- Tom Tracey acquitted -- Arrested for vagrancy -- "Safe for democracy!" -- Frank Little lynched -- Charge, "seditious conspiracy" -- The war year of 1918 -- Came Armistice Day, 1918 -- Amnesty for all political prisoners: 1918-1923 -- Free your fellow-workers! -- Women who opposed World War I -- "Life behind bars" -- The Palmer raids -- Charles E. Ruthenberg, "most arrested man in America" -- The Legion attacks, Centralia, 1919 -- Criminal syndicalist laws -- "511", meeting place of many minds -- The Irish and Soviet republics -- The saga of Woodrow Wilson and "votes for women" -- "United front" in the '20's -- When Americans first heard of Lenin -- William Z. Foster, leader of labor -- 1919 and the great steel strike -- The children's crusade -- Bomb scare, prelude to murder -- The anatomy of a New-England frame-up -- I visit Sacco and Vanzetti -- The campaign starts -- The Wall Street explosion, the De Falco Affair -- Before the trial -- The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti -- The world as a jury -- "A ghastly miscarriage of justice" -- The dark days of 1924 -- Now the higher courts -- Not much personal life. |
| Responsibility: | by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. |
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