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Letterhead for the Socialist and Labor Star


Early on the morning of May 9, 1913, military authorities raided the offices of The Socialist and Labor Star, a socialist newspaper in Huntington.

Learn more:
"Star's Plant Destroyed and Its Staff Sent to Jail"
"Socialist Paper Confisacted [sic] And Five Men Arrested"
"Socialists Taken To State Capital By Guard Officers"
Testimony of W. H. Thompson and Wife Before a Subcommittee of the United States Senate
"Eugene V. Debs in West Virginia, 1913: A Reappraisal"


On This Day in West Virginia History: May

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