词条 | Emma F. Langdon |
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HistoryRepublican governor of Colorado James Peabody had sent the national guard into Cripple Creek to suppress the strike. The Daily Record erroneously charged that one of the soldiers was an ex-convict. Its staff was imprisoned by the national guard in a bullpen before a retraction could be published.[3] While Victor Daily Record editor George Kyner and four printers were in the bullpen, Emma Langdon, a linotype operator married to one of the imprisoned printers, sneaked into the Daily Record office and barricaded herself inside. She printed the next edition of the paper, and then delivered it to the prisoners in the bullpen.[4] Langdon was the only linotype operator in Victor who was overlooked by the national guard. She received a telephone message at midnight about the raid, and rushed to the office, barred the doors, and printed a four-page edition of the morning paper, with the headline across the top — Somewhat Disfigured but Still in the Ring. The next morning Emma Langdon arrived at the bullpen with an armload of papers intended for the prisoners. She was stopped by the guards. She recorded in her 1908 book, Labors' Greatest Conflicts, that the national guard officers were,
The Associated Press picked up the story of the apprentice printer who could not be intimidated. The Daily Record did not miss an issue as a result of the arrests. The printers were held for twenty-four hours, charged with criminal libel, and then were released on bond. When the cases went to court, all charges were dismissed. For defying the militia and producing an issue of the union paper by herself, Langdon was presented with an engraved gold medal at the Western Federation of Miners convention in 1904, and was made an honorary member of the union.[5] Although the designation was somewhat overused in the period, Langdon was frequently referred to as Labor's Joan of Arc. AffiliationsLangdon was secretary of the Victor Women's Auxiliary, vice-president of the Victor Trades Assembly, a member of the Typographical Union in Victor, and later of TU Local No. 49 in Denver. She became chair of the Typographical Union executive board.[1] She attended the 1905 founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World in Chicago, where she was elected assistant secretary under general secretary-treasurer William Trautmann.[6] Emma Langdon became a publicist for the Western Federation of Miners, and was also with the organization when it changed its name to the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. She was also an organizer for the Socialist Party of America. Books authored
Notes1. ^1 All That Glitters—Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek, Elizabeth Jameson, 1998, page 240. {{Portal|Organized labour}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Langdon, Emma}}2. ^David Brundage, The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905, 1994, pages 1-3. 3. ^Colorado's War on Militant Unionism, James H. Peabody and the Western Federation of Miners, George G. Suggs, Jr., 1972, page 96. 4. ^All That Glitters—Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek, Elizabeth Jameson, 1998, page 209. 5. ^Labors' Greatest Conflicts, Emma F. Langdon, May 1908, page 10, 21-22. 6. ^CONVENTION, Industrial Workers of the World, SECOND DAY—Wednesday, June 28, MORNING SESSION. http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/unions/iww/1905/convention/ch03.htm Retrieved March 18, 2007. 7. ^"100 BEST BOOKS ON COLORADO" Compiled by Thomas J. Noel (“Dr. Colorado”), Professor of History and Director of Colorado Studies and Public History, University of Colorado–Denver, http://www.coloradohistory.org/publications/100Best.pdf retrieved March 18, 2007. 9 : American labor leaders|Industrial Workers of the World leaders|Industrial Workers of the World members|American miners|1875 births|Year of death missing|Typesetters|American socialists|People from Cripple Creek, Colorado |
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