1914.08.21: FREE BECKY EDELSON, FUNERAL PLANS OFF

August 21, 1914
FREE BECKY EDELSON, FUNERAL PLANS OFF
Friends Give a Bond for Agitator Who Has Been on a Hunger Strike in Prison.
THEY SAY SHE IS VERY ILL
But Prison Authorities Tell Dr. Davis She Seems to be In Good Health.

1914.08.20: The Lock Haven Express

"I am still fasting," writes Becky Edelson from Blackwell's. Well, well. And here we had gone and forgotten all about Becky. How very careless of us!

1914.08.11: BECKY EDELSON PROTEST

August 11, 1914

BECKY EDELSON PROTEST

Rose Pastor Stokes Heads Meeting to Warn Commissioner Davis.

A woman's mass meeting to protest against forcibly feeding Becky Edelson attracted 300 women and a few men to Murray Hill Lyceum last night. Rose Pastor Stokes presided.

 A resolution calling upon the Attorney General to investigate "tortures inflicted upon Becky Edelson, not contemplated in the sentence passed upon her by a Magistrate," was voted down, and a substitute was passed notifying Commissioner Davis that the women held her "personally responsible" for Miss Edelson's well being.

When forcible feeding was under consideration a women asked if those present favored letting Miss Edelson starve to death since Commissioner Davis could not release her and must feed her or let her die.

"The Commissioner can resign as a protest against the outrageous alternatives presented by the judicial system," shouted some one, and the sentiment was applauded.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn hailed Commissioner Davis as "The Asquith of America," and Mrs. William English Walling denounced the newspapers. Miss Matilda Robbins said Miss Edelson was "a captive revolutionist, giving her life in protest against denial of her rights."

1914.08.01: Last Reference To Jane Est Found On Newspaperarchive

August 1, 1914

As To Hunger Strikes.

Becky Edelsohn, Jane Est and the rest of the I.W.W. crowd are using--but with a little less violence--the identical methods of the British militants, and for exactly the same purpose.