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Newspaper The Voice of the People (New Orleans, La.) 1913-19??

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About The Voice of the People (New Orleans, La.) 1913-19??

The Lumberjack was founded in January 1913 in the midst of a protracted labor strike by the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (B.T.W.) in Merryville, Louisiana. Published by the Southern District of the National Industrial Union of Forest and Lumber Workers, the weekly paper was edited by Covington Hall (1871-1952), a member of the radical wing of the Socialist Party in New Orleans.

Hall had previously served as assistant editor of Oscar Ameringer’s Labor World, which Ameringer moved from Columbus, Ohio, to New Orleans in 1907. As editor of the Lumberjack, Hall called for the formation of timber workers’ unions in western Louisiana and east Texas and reported at length on the activities of the International Workers of the World (I.W.W.), with which the B.T.W. had affiliated itself at its annual convention in Alexandria, Louisiana, in 1912. In addition to news of local strikes and the labor movement, the paper carried news of timber workers’ strikes elsewhere in the United States together with editorials on general topics such as child labor and the Ku Klux Klan, which Hall commented on from a socialist viewpoint. Also of interest is Hall’s original poetry on labor-related subjects.

In July 1913, timber industry leaders persuaded the Lumberjack’s printer in Alexandria to stop printing the paper. Publication resumed in New Orleans under a new title, the Voice of the People. The Lumberjack’s motto, “An Injury To One Is An Injury To All,” was retained, as was its four-page, three-column format. The focus of reporting initially remained the same; by 1914, however, having grown frustrated with largely unsuccessful efforts to organize southern timber workers, Hall was devoting greater attention to the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest and Montana, as well as to labor disputes associated with the United Fruit Company in Central America and the Caribbean.

Vol. 2, no. 46 was published concurrently, but with completely different contents, in New Orleans and Portland, Oregon. In July 1914, lack of support in the South finally led Hall to transfer publication of the paper in full to Portland, where he served as editor for two months before turning the job over to B. E. Nilsson and returning to New Orleans. The Voice of the People appears to have found no more of an audience in the Northwest than in the South, and its last issue was published on December 3, 1914.

Provided By: Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, LA

About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Voice of the People (New Orleans, La.) 1913-19??

Dates of Publication

  • 1913-19??

Created / Published

  • New Orleans, La. : National Industrial Union of Forest and Lumber Workers, Southern District

Headings

  • -  Portland (Or.)--Newspapers
  • -  New Orleans (La.)--Newspapers
  • -  Oregon--Portland
  • -  Louisiana--New Orleans
  • -  United States--Oregon--Multnomah--Portland
  • -  United States--Louisiana--Orleans--New Orleans

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Vol. 2, no. 28 (July 17, 1913)-
  • -  Published in New Orleans, La., Oct. 9, 1913; and in Portland, Or., July 30, 1914-.
  • -  Volume numbering is irregular.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  In English with occasional articles in Spanish.

Medium

  • volumes

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn88064458

OCLC Number

  • 18012288

ISSN Number

  • 2163-6486

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Chicago citation style:

The Voice of the People New Orleans, La. -19??. (Portland, OR), Jan. 1 1913. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn88064458/.

APA citation style:

(1913, January 1) The Voice of the People New Orleans, La. -19??. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn88064458/.

MLA citation style:

The Voice of the People New Orleans, La. -19??. (Portland, OR) 1 Jan. 1913. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn88064458/.