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Mrs. Glendower Evans Has Been Jailed More Than Once. WHITE-HAIRED, seemingly frail little woman has attend ed every hearing of the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Italian com munists who were convicted at Ded ham, Mass., June 14 last of having murdered ‘a factory pay master and his guard and rob bed them of $18,000. She is Mrs. ‘Glinndow, er Evans, wealthy radi cal and friend of every labor movement. Mrs.Evans has been work ing night and day in an ef fort to see that the defendants in the interna tionally known case secure ‘a fair and impartial trial... Mrs. Evans herself contributed $10,000 toward the defense fund, Staunch Labor Supporter Long identified with the cause of labor, she has made speeches all over New England in favor of vari ous radical movements. Before be coming active in the attempt to se cure freedom for the two condemned communists, Mrs. Evans worked in behalf of the “Reds” at Deer Island, who were deported by the govern ment as undesirables. She made va rious addresses assailing the govern ment. Born in New Rochelle in 1856, Mrs. Evans was educated in private schools and took special courses at Radcliffe college. In 1882 she mar ried Glendower Evans, who died in 1886. Mrs. Evans threw herself into woman sufrage and industrial woman suffrage and industrial movements, and in 1911 was made a member of the Massachusetts min imum wage commission which led to a permanent wage commission, the first of its kind in the country. It was in 1919 that Mrs. Hans became nationally known as a radical. She waged a verbal war fare against the Lawrence police in the famous Lawrence textile strike Although she was a stockholder in a Lawrence mill, Mrs. Evans took the part of the strikers and even picketed the mills with them and MRS. EVANS
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Escanaba Daily Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Sat, Nov 05, 1921
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