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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday July 27, 1901
Charleston, West Virginia – Is Judge Jackson a bigger man than Mother Jones?
From West Virginia’s Shepherdstown Register of July 25, 1901:
John Jay Jackson Jr., Injunction Judge
At Charleston Tuesday Judge Jackson made perpetual a temporary injunction that he had granted restraining the striking coal miners in the Flat Top region [Pocahontas Coalfield] from interfering with the operation of the mines, and he held for the action of the grand jury certain miners who are said to have fired on United States officers. The Judge severely denounced the miners.
The United Mine Workers will get “Mother Jones” to come to West Virginia to help the cause of the strikers.
It will soon be demonstrated, however, that Judge Jackson is a bigger man than “Mother Jones.”
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, St Louis Pst Dsp p3, June 17, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/138851726/
The Shepherdstown Register
(Shepherdstown, West Virginia)
-July 25, 1901
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026824/1901-07-25/ed-1/seq-2/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Drawing, SDH p4, Mar 9, 1901
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/social-democratic-herald-us/010309-socdemherald-v03n38w140.pdf
See also:
Hellraisers Journal, Friday October 11, 1907
Old Injunction Judge Passed Away on Labor Day
-Remembering Judge John Jay Jackson Who Famously Tangled with Mother Jones in 1902
Pocahontas Coalfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_Coalfield
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Note: Mother Jones was indeed an organizer, employed as such by the United Mine Workers of America.