Word: berkman
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...wish to congratulate the CRIMSON on its interest in the case of Miss Edith Berkman as evidenced by its editorial yesterday morning. We believe, however, that one important aspect of the case was neglected...
...main reason for Miss Berkman's arrest was her energetic activity as a strike-leader whom the Lawrence mill-owners wished to get out of the way as soon as possible. Her affiliation with a left-wing union was the excuse, and the U. S. Department of Labor was the means...
...Department of Labor as a strike-breaking weapon in the hands of the mill-owners that is the crux of this situation. It is against this, and the particularly flagrant use of it in this case,--the holding of Miss Berkman for seven months without ball as a punitive measure,--that the Liberal Club's protest is lodged. By Miss Berkman's activity, the National Textile Workers' Union had conducted a vigorous and thorough prosecution of the strike, which in turn created a united front of millowners, the A. F. of L., and the U. S. Department of Labor, whose...
...Andelman, Dorchester, W. Barnes, Belmont, E. R. Barron, Roxbury, L. M. Barron, Derby, Conn., F. C. Bartor, Walban, D. W. Baxter, Belmont, J. I. Berkman, Cambridge, I. V. O. Borodin, Cambridge, E. F. Bowditch, Concord, H. S. Bowen, Honolulu, Hawaii, J. A. Bradley, Lawrence, T. M. Breen, Brooklyn, N. Y., H. J. Brown, Cambridge, R. D. Brown, West Medford, J. O. Burack, Brockton, E. E. Calvin, Squantum, E. C. Carman, Springfield, F. J. Casale, New Britain, Conn., R. T. Cassidy, Marblehead, H. R. Chalke, Plainville, Conn., C. R. Cherington, N. Y. City, J. A. Christenson, Concord, F. F. Clapp, Cambridge...
When trouble broke out in 1892 in Homestead, Pa., between Carnegie Steel Co. and its employes, Emma Goldman and Berkman felt they ought to go out there and fight. But Berkman had a better idea: he would shoot the capitalist-in-charge, Henry Clay Frick. With Emma's blessing he went to Pittsburgh, shot Mr. Frick three times, but unsuccessfully, and went to jail for 14 years. His attempt canonized Berkman in Emma's eyes, set an untarnishable halo round his head. When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery...