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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 20, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for April 1911
Dreamer Finds Mother Jones in Heaven Wearing Biggest Crown of All
From the Appeal to Reason of April 1, 1911
-page 3, Kansas & Oklahoma edition:
OKLAHOMA NOTES
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Comrade Lee, of Oklahoma City, sends in a list of subs. He says that he had a dream not long ago and found himself, much to his surprise, in heaven. The first person he saw was Mother Jones, who was wearing the biggest crown in the bunch.
Mother Jones, Miners’ Angel
From the Colorado Springs Gazette of April 4, 1911:
Mother Jones, the famous labor union advocate, will speak at Carpenters hall Thursday night under the auspices of the Colorado Springs Federated Trades council. All trades unionists and their friends are invited.
From Denver’s United Labor Bulletin of April 20, 1911:
Socialist Party Department.
—–The United Labor Bulletin has been selected as the official paper of the Socialist party of Colorado. Hereafter these columns will be edited by their officers and contain all official statements of their state organization.
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On February 2 the Socialists and labor union members joined together in the largest demonstration that the laboring class ever had in Denver. It was to exhibit a protest against the outrageous persecution of 16 U. M. W. Judge Whitford of Denver saw fit to enter another judicial district and issued an injunction, then pronounce one year imprisonment for these 16 men because he said they had violated his law. There was no trial to determine their guilt.
On Feb. 2 about 7,000 or 8,000 men and women marched through the city, by the city hall, then encircled the Capitol building, but the Legislature was not at home to receive the visitors. After the march about 8,000 or more went to the Auditorium, where Mother Jones, McCullough of Illinois and John M. O’Neill entertained them for about three hours with speeches that showed a spirit of resentment to the judiciary which was equal to the feeling the Dred Scott decision arouse 50 years ago.
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From the New York Daily People of April 30, 1911:
S. P. NATIONAL OFFICERS
———-A CHICAGO LETTER ON THE
PRESENT S. P. SCANDALS.
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National Executive Members in League with
National Secretary to Defame Members
Who Object to Immorality and Corrupt Acts
-A Motion to Remove Them all.(Special Correspondence.)
Chicago, Ill., April 27.-In the article “St. Louis conditions,” in the Daily People, April 23 [page 1], revealing the shady doings of the Socialist party in St. Louis, Mo., the statement is made that “the most gigantic ulcer of the lot has been revealed in the national office of the party [S. P. A.] in Chicago.”
This is true to the letter. But you wouldn’t know it from the S. P. press, save with a few honorable exceptions, viz., the Tyler, Tex., “Militant,” “The Miners Magazine [organ of the Western Federation of Miners], the Chicago “Christian Socialist,” and Morgan’s “Provoker.” Unfortunately these papers do not reach all of the S. P. members, who should certainly be made aware of what is going on in the high circles of their party…..
[A special investigating committee, appointed by the National Committee, conducted an investigation of Secretary Barnes and the charges made against him by Mother Jones and by women working in the national office.]
This “investigation” took place here in Chicago, the beginning of the present month. It is best described as a rip roaring farce. The special committee denied the request of the accusers for a sight of the documents in the case from party headquarters. It suppressed testimony and in general acted the way the proverbial beggar does on horseback-they rode their power to death.
Had they been wise, for themselves, they would have whitewashed Barnes and let it go at that. But having for so long been successful in rascality and the wielding of power to their own ends, and angered at the revelations made, the special committee in addition to white-washing Barnes undertook to blacken and condemn the accusers. Of all their findings the most absurd was their declaration that Mother Jones had acted as an extortionist…..
The outrageous methods used by the beggars on horseback to suppress evidence, and to slander those bringing the accusations, have increased one hundred fold the feeling against them. The “Chicago Daily Socialist, ” recent beneficiary of $500 from the party’s national funds, may keep silent, nevertheless the scandal is getting abroad. Four International Organizers of the United Mine Workers of America, Thomas Haggerty, Miles Daugherty, William Diamond and Terence Ginley protest to the National Committee against “these character assassins” of Mother Jones…..
I think that we of the S. L. P. can, without impropriety, extend greeting and good cheer to all S. P. men who are engaged in trying to clean the Augean stable into which their party has been turned by this dirty crew whose reasons for not wanting Socialist unity are now made manifest.
Old Timer.
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Note: emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, Shenandoah Eve Hld p1, Aug 27, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/448065149/
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Apr 1, 1911
-page 3: Kansas & Oklahoma edition
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66983428/
Colorado Springs Gazette
(Colorado Springs, Colorado)
-Apr 4, 1911, page 6
https://www.genealogybank.com/
United Labor Bulletin
“Official Organ State Federation of Labor and
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly.
Owned and Published by Denver Union Label League No. 1”
(Denver, Colorado)
-Apr 20, 1911
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1911-04-20/ed-1/seq-4/
Daily People
“Published Every Morning by the
Socialist Labor Party”
(New York, New York)
-Apr 30, 1911, pages 1 & 8
https://www.genealogybank.com/
IMAGES
Mother Jones by Bertha Howell Mailly, ab 1902
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004672082/
See also:
Mother Jones News Round-Up for March 1911:
–Found in Denver Fighting for Sixteen Miners Jailed by Judge Whitford
Appeal to Reason
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/
AtR of 4-1-1911, Alternate edition, see page 3
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/110401-appealtoreason-w800.pdf
For more on Labor & Socialist Protest in Denver, see:
Hellraisers Journal – Thursday March 16, 1911
Denver, Colorado – “A Living Protest” by William D. Haywood
Mother Jones News Round-Up for February 1911, Part I
–Found in Denver Speaking Out Against Government by Injunction
For more on Mother Jones v SPA, see:
Mother Jones News Round-Up for February 1911, Part II:
–Found in Report of Socialist Party’s Investigating Committee
Correspondence for April 1911:
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAAJ
-page 95 (146 of 416):
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435/viewer#page/146/mode/2up
April 15, 1911
From Mother Jones at Denver to President Wilson:
Mother introduces Mr. Jos. T. Keiley, New York attorney, to Wilson, stating that Keiley has “taken quite an interest in the persecution of the poor Mexicans.”
See Tag: Mexican Revolutionaries
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mexican-revolutionaries/
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The Death of Mother Jones – Bobbie McGee