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adMARTYR(Ily parry Weinstein).rIfnIf the working* class of this country felt asI did after seeing how the hlood-thirsty minions of the master class, the police of anDiego, killed ottri fellow worker Joseph Miko-lash, the day of reckoning with those bruteswould not be faii away.Fellow Worked Mikolash was a member of500and women to its last resting place. The funeral services were held at the I. W. W.r I hall and were ve.y brief. There was a splen-- did oration by Emma Goldman and the sing-t» joined the procession. At the crematory therOdilonLaurae[ Emerson, Mrs. ijrene Smith, J. J.„Mc$Celvey and myself.t In these few words I can sum up the wonderful gathering of Rebels of Los Angeles who paid their last respects to fellow worker * | Joseph Kikolash who gave his life for his ■ class.i nnited before. Let-1 brave fellow worker gave his life in vain. Letour shoulders to the wheeland killing the workers because they dare r I fight for a little qnore of the good things ofI life.Joseph Mikolash end all other rebels in the kst. who died for* the principle of liberty, did11 not give up their li|ves in vain, for, in the words»f Wendell Philips^ The forget, and never forgiveI So. workers, arise as youreckonmastersr I of slavery by taking the full producttoil-ro1Antiothlt;or|aspriel Los Angeles locps and was one of the first I ] SI volunteers to go, to San Diego to help estah-JWlt; lish free speech,! which some people believe I Et, .is guaranteed to, ALL by the constitution of I bel (| the United States. lie was arrested, with I by r | others, ami served a week in the city bastilc. |phi lie was released only to meet a fate whichseems to be the {fate of men and women who! 1dare to light fof the slave class. The uni-larformed murderer^ of San Diego put at least I Th eleven bullets iijto the body of this brave “ fellow worker, killing him almost instantly.The funeral, which was held in Los Angles, I ^ Monday, May til, was one of the greatest]] demonstrations I1 ever witnessed. The bodyonthemimeing of the Red ,Flag by all present. Then il|came the long mirch of five miles to the crematory. In the line of march was the Red | °1woworker was murdered. AH along that long! . march 1,500 voices sang the Red Flag and J ^ the Marseillaise,j and when we came to astreet where a gang of Mexicans were at work g ^rn ItNntKpV Ilf them itpunfioil lhais atiMttsila • an *4 1 I ™%ttl11 Men and women of the working class, nriseji * e j from your sluipber and unite as you never 11 |I»on tbe firing line so that the day of reckoning with these blood-thirsty capitalists and all I * their hirelings will not be far off. For these i many years they have been hounding, clubbing | ’
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Spokane Industrial Worker
Spokane, Washington, US
Thu, May 30, 1912
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