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Jane Little Botkin
“[1916] The IWW鈥檚 involvement in the [Minnesota] Iron Range鈥檚 labor unrest led mine company owners to take extreme actions and, just as in other conflict locations, they mobilized the businesses and municipal offices under their ownership. All mail and telegrams to and from Virginia were halted and reviewed. In other locations, including Biwabik, Aurora, and Eveleth, general stores turned away miners and their famlies. When the strikers formed their own cooperative for supplies and groceries, Oliver Iron Mining Company pressured wholesalers to serve notice that all credit would be curtailed pending the strike, and that payments for supplies must be made weekly. Meanwhile Sheriff Meining publicly announced new jail sentences for other agitators and miners for simply saying, 鈥淗ello Fellow Worker,鈥� carrying a red IWW membership card, or discussing industrial unionism on public streets.”
Jane Little Botkin, Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family

Jane Little Botkin
“IWW General Headquarters was collecting information regarding past free speech fights in response to a request from the U.S. Committee on Industrial Relations. Believing the 鈥減ublicity to be worth the work it will entail,鈥� Vincent St. John made an appeal in Solidarity one week before the September convention. Anyone who had first-hand experience was asked to submit personal narratives, pamphlets, bulletins, reports, and detailed histories regarding the various free speech fights. 鈥�. The committee determined that non-English-speaking workers had prevented development of better employer-employee relationships, especially with the 鈥渦nreasonable prejudice of almost every class of Americans toward immigrants.鈥� With rumblings of a European war, the committee recommended immediate legislation for restricting immigration except for those who were 鈥渓ikely to make the most desirable citizens.”
Jane Little Botkin, Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family

“Slacker had come into the language as a term of frequent use. Bundles of Hearst newspapers had been burned in Times Square because Hearst was slow in swinging to the Allied cause but in a few weeks he had swung, and American flags were printed all over his daily sheets. So-called pro-Germans were being tarred and feathered by mobs in the West. Frank Little of the I.W.W. executive board had been lynched by business men in Butte, Montana. And new and appalling tales of cruelty to conscientious objectors were coming out of the prisons where they were confined.”
Art Young