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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday February 9, 1904
Trinidad, Colorado – Mrs. Bertha Howell Reports from Colorado Strike Zone
From the American Labor Journal of January 28, 1904:
From the Appeal to Reason of January 30, 1904
-Mrs. Mailly’s Article Was Also Published in the Appeal Along with the Following Drawing by Lockwood and with the Following Introduction:
THE COAL MINERS’ STRIKE IN SOUTHERN COLORADO
———-(Not much news of the strike of several thousand coal miners in Southern Colorado has reached the outside world. Mrs. Bertha Howell Mailly, wife of the National Secretary of the Socialist Party, went to that district from Omaha last week to be with Mother Jones, who was dangerously ill in Trinidad, but who is now happily recovering. While in the strike district, Mrs. Mailly will write a special series of articles for the Socialist press, the following being the first.)
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, CFI Owns Colorado, re 1903 Strikes UMW WFM, Ab Chp 13, 1925
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/13/
American Labor Union Journal
(Butte, Montana)
-Jan 28, 1904, p3
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/american-labor-union-journal/040128-alujournal-v2n17.pdf
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Jan 30, 1904, p2
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/040130-appealtoreason-w426.pdf
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Thursday January 14, 1904
Denver, Colorado – Delegates of Convention of State F. of L. Consider Miners’ Strikes
(Scroll down to:)
Tuesday January 12, 1904 Denver, Colorado
-C. F. of L. Convention Receives Greetings from Mother Jones
Mother Jones, who is recovering from a serious illness in Trinidad, nevertheless sent her greetings to the Special Convention of the Colorado Federation of Labor now in progress in Denver.
Jan 18, 1904, Indianapolis Star
-Mother Jones Unable to Attend Convention of UMWA Due to Illness
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-jan-18-1904-indi/140729647/
From the Appeal to Reason of January 30, 1904
“The Story of the Colorado Bull Pen” by Allan W. Ricker
-with Cartoon by G. H. Lockwood
Feb 6, 1904, Appeal to Reason p2
“Tom, House No. 12” by Bertha Howell Mailly
-article re feudal conditions at Engle CO coal camp
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/040206-appealtoreason-w427.pdf
Feb 6, 1904 – The Rocky Mountain News
-reports that Mother Jones passed through Denver “yesterday” on her way to Trinidad. Reports incorrectly that Mother is returning from the annual convention of the UMWA at Indianapolis. Mother did not attend the convention; most likely she was returning from Omaha.
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-146DC5F113C10D78@2416517-146C21E167308FF0@2-146C21E167308FF0
Bertha Howell Mailly, 1869-1960
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156995932/bertha_mailly
Mother Jones
Raising Cain and Consciousness
-by Simon Cordery
UNM Press, Oct 9, 2011
-re Mother Jones and Bertha Howell Mailly, 1904
(search separately: “early in january 1904” ; “bertha howell mailly”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=dMIzWgzbdGMC
G. H. Lockwood (Cartoonist), 1870-1947
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Guy_H._Lockwood
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013035991.html
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1903-1904
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1903-1904/
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