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Great Women All, Serving a Glorious Cause: Freda Hogan Ameringer's Reminiscences of Socialism in Arkansas
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ON MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1914, twenty-one-year-old Freda Hogan stood before an angry crowd of 2000 coal miners and supporters at a schoolhouse not too far from Prairie Creek Mine No. 4 in southern Sebastian County, Arkansas. The Bache-Denman Coal Company, the object of Hogan and the crowd's wrath, had just abrogated its contract with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), announced that Prairie Creek No. 4 and its six other mines in the area would operate on a nonunion basis, and begun bringing in scab miners from Johnson County, Tennessee, and heavily armed guards of the notorious Burns Detective Agency. Hogan, the principal speaker and a devoted Socialist, urged the crowd to forgo …
