'Hunter Gray' hunterbadbear@hunterbear.org [marxist]
2014-07-28 10:55:02 UTC
Thanks very much for this, Stephen. As you note, I am sending this around. I'll follow it up with my own piece on Frank Little which some have seen but others, I am sure, have not. Frank Little was a major organizer for militant labor and civil liberties over a significant period of time -- and a staunch opponent of World War I. Like many radical activists who deserve better, he's often been on the border of History's forgotten. Haywood and Chaplin, of course, give him full credit for his significant contributions and martyrdom. Solidarity, Hunter
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Harvey
To: Hunter Gray
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 4:52 PM
Subject: Frank Little Memorial
Hunter:
I thought this notice on the IWW website would interest you. Hope you, Eldri and family are doing well.
Best regards,
Stephen
August 2nd: the Second Annual Frank Little Memorial!
Submitted on Wed, 07/23/2014 - 4:27pm
I.W.W. organizer Frank Little was in Butte, Montana, in the summer of 1917, organizing for the OBU after the disastrous Granite Mountain - Speculator Mine fire that killed 168 miners earlier that year. Early in the morning of August First, agents of the Copper Trust forced their way into his rooming house, dragged him out, and lynched him from a railroad trestle. He's buried in a Butte cemetery.
Fellow Workers will meet at Stodden Park in Butte (directions below) at noon on August 2nd for a potluck lunch and to get acquainted or re-acquainted, maybe have a brief organizing meeting; and maybe, if we're so inclined and anyone brings instruments, some music.
Then, after the potluck we'll convoy a mile or so down to the cemetery where FW Little is buried, have a brief ceremony, and hopefully some inspiring soapbox speeches and more music; and if necessary, do a little tidying up around FW Little's gravesite.
All this will be pretty informal, without a formal program or a rigid time schedule.
Remember, this will be a potluck, so bring something to eat, and enough extra to share !
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Harvey
To: Hunter Gray
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 4:52 PM
Subject: Frank Little Memorial
Hunter:
I thought this notice on the IWW website would interest you. Hope you, Eldri and family are doing well.
Best regards,
Stephen
August 2nd: the Second Annual Frank Little Memorial!
Submitted on Wed, 07/23/2014 - 4:27pm
I.W.W. organizer Frank Little was in Butte, Montana, in the summer of 1917, organizing for the OBU after the disastrous Granite Mountain - Speculator Mine fire that killed 168 miners earlier that year. Early in the morning of August First, agents of the Copper Trust forced their way into his rooming house, dragged him out, and lynched him from a railroad trestle. He's buried in a Butte cemetery.
Fellow Workers will meet at Stodden Park in Butte (directions below) at noon on August 2nd for a potluck lunch and to get acquainted or re-acquainted, maybe have a brief organizing meeting; and maybe, if we're so inclined and anyone brings instruments, some music.
Then, after the potluck we'll convoy a mile or so down to the cemetery where FW Little is buried, have a brief ceremony, and hopefully some inspiring soapbox speeches and more music; and if necessary, do a little tidying up around FW Little's gravesite.
All this will be pretty informal, without a formal program or a rigid time schedule.
Remember, this will be a potluck, so bring something to eat, and enough extra to share !