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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday February 8, 1922
Mother Jones News Round-Up for September 1921, Part I
Found Celebrating Labor Day in Indiana, Pennsylvania
From Pennsylvania’s Indiana Evening Gazette of September 3, 1921:
Labor Day.
The local committee announced this morning that the arrangements for the Labor Day celebration had been practically completed and that all that was lacking for a proper observance of the occasion was the promise of fair weather. “We expect all organized labor to join in the parade on Monday,” said the chairman of the committee this morning.
There will be hundreds of visitors for the occasion, music by four bands and a drum corps and talks from three well-known speakers-President John Brophy of Clearfield, President of District No. 2, United Mine Workers of America; Mother Jones, and John Ghizzoni, international board member. It was stated that Mother Jones would probably arrive here on Sunday afternoon, direct from the scene of the conflict in West Virginia.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel of September 4, 1921:
“Labor Day and the Closed Shop”
-Ad from The Employers Association of Fort Wayne:
From the Pennsylvania’s Indiana Evening Gazette of September 6, 1921:
Labor’s Holiday.
With the presence of three notables of the international association of the United Mine Workers of America in attendance-John Brophy, president of District No. 2: John Ghizzoni, international board member & “Mother” Jones-organized labor held its annual celebration under the most favorable auspices at the Fair Grounds yesterday. Members of organized labor and their families, to the number of several thousand, came into Indiana for the celebration, the events of which were carried out with a minimum of confusion and no trouble worth mentioning…..
Note: emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones Princeton WV Speech Aug 15, 1920,
Steel Speeches, p227
https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ
Indiana Evening Gazette
(Indiana, Pennsylvania)
-Sept 3, 1921 -p1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/534630740/
-Sept 6, 1921 -p4 re labor day
https://www.newspapers.com/image/534630886/
The News-Sentinel
(Fort Wayne, Indiana)
-Sept 4, 1921 -p4
https://www.newspapers.com/image/29202737/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Lecompton KS Sun p10, Sept 8, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/231087027/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for August 1921
Found Advocating for Workers of Mexico and Standing with West Virginia Miners
Tag: UMW District 2
https://weneverforget.org/tag/umw-district-2/
Tag: John Brophy
https://weneverforget.org/tag/john-brophy/
Open Shop Movement
https://www.worldhistory.biz/modern-history/86443-open-shop-movement.html
Correspondence, September 1921
-letters as written except: emphasis added,
periods added where necessary for clarity.
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAAJ
September 1921—Page 234 (285 of 416)
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435/viewer#page/284/mode/2up
From Mother Jones in Charleston WV to John Fitzpatrick,
President of the Chicago Federation of Labor:
Charleston, W. Va.
September the tenth 1921Mr. John Fitzpatrick,
Pres. Chicago Federation of Labor,
166 West Madison St.,
Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Fitzpatrick:I am writing you a few lines. Would you have the kindness to send me Clarence Darrow’s address? We have some hot times over here and it looks as though you are going to have some hot ones in Chicago too. I was in Pennsylvania for Labor Day with the miners of District Two. They have some very fine officers and are doing well making progress. I don’t write to Ed [Nockels, Secretary of Chg F of L] because he is never in the office or in Chicago anymore and I have entirely lost connection with him. I am enclosing a copy of a document to you which will give you some inside information as to the brutality as to the high class burglars in this part of the country. I hope it will be of some service to you.
With best wishes to all,
I am Yours for the Cause,
Mother Jones
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The Spirit of Mother Jones – Andy Irvine