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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday March 22, 1914
Denver, Colorado – Mother Jones Arrives After Deportation from Trinidad
-Meets with John Lawson and Horace Hawkins
From the Denver United Labor Bulletin of March 21, 1914:
“Mother” Jones and John R. Lawson.
Remarkable likeness of the 82-year-old Camp Angel, telling her story to John R. Lawson, Executive Board member U. M. W., Monday [March 16th] after arrival in Denver from Trinidad, where she was detained as military prisoner for 9 weeks.
From The Denver Post of March 16, 1914
-Statement of Mother Jones after Deportation from Trinidad:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Raise Hell in Jail, Gary IN Oct 23, NYT p2, Oct 24, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20608089
United Labor Bulletin
(Denver, Colorado)
-Mar 21, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-03-21/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-03-21/ed-1/seq-6/
The Denver Post
(Denver, Colorado)
-Mar 16, 1914
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-136D66274372E770@2420208-136C6040AA446388@3
See also:
Mother Jones with Lawson and Hawkins at Denver CO, taken Mar 16, 1914:
Portrait of figures prominent in the coal strike: (r t l) Horace N. Hawkins, attorney for the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones); and John R. Lawson, international UMWA organizer, c. 1914.
https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/12924
John Lawson, Mother Jones, Horace Hawkins
Taken in Denver, Monday March 16, 1914
per United Labor Bulletin of March 21st
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Mar 18, 1914, Trinidad Chronicle News
-“Mother Jones to Leave for Trinidad”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1914-03-18/ed-1/seq-1/
Mar 21, 1914, Trinidad Chronicle News
-General Chase states he will arrest Mother Jones should she return to Trinidad.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1914-03-21/ed-1/seq-1/
Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday March 18, 1914
Mother Jones No Longer Military Prisoner; General Chase Deported Her to Denver Late at Night
Tag: Military Despotism Colorado 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/military-despotism-colorado-1914/
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAAJ
March 22, 1914-Letter to Terence V Powderly, p122
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435/viewer#page/172/mode/2up
Letter from Mother Jones to Terence V. Powderly before Departing Denver
for the Southern Colorado Strike Zone:
Before Mother Jones departed from Denver for the strike zone of the southern Colorado coalfields, she wrote to her long-time friend, Terence V. Powderly. Mother Jones, the fervent strike leader, and Powderly, formerly of the Knights of Labor which favored education of workers over “radical” strike action, were able to set aside their differences in the interest of friendship. A room in the home of Terrence and Emma Powderly was always made available for Mother Jones.
In a letter written to her in 1920, he referred to his home as her home:
As you know, the girls occupy the South porch evenings, and last night they had some kind of a sewing-bee out there and needed a tall light so I borrowed yours for the occasion, but will gladly return it the minute you come home again. Emma and all the rest of them send their love to you, mine included, with the hope that you will keep well, but if you don’t feel just exactly right switch off and come home at once.
Mar 22, 1914-Mother Jones to Terence V. Powderly
Denver, Colorado
March 22, 1914Mr. T. V. Powderly
Washington, D. C.
My own dear son:I am just going to drop you a line or two so that you will know I did not forget you even in the military bastile. Last Monday morning [March 16th] I closed five months and one week in the military bastiles of America out of ten months, so we can boast of our republic. In the last nine weeks which I spent in the military bull pen, I never got a glimpse of a newspaper or a letter and the only human being, outside of the military, that I saw was my attorney Hawkins. He came three times during the nine weeks. The sisters permitted their religious institution to be turned into a military prison. I never saw more moral cowards in my life than those sisters were. It is a sais commenty [sad commentary?] on the religious institution. They are simply owned body and soul by the Rockefeller interests. The priest would go by my window in the morning and take his hat off to the uniform murderer and not notice a poor wretch who was digging in the gardens with his legs off.
How they have prostituted Christ’s holy doctrine. Five big burly uniformed murderers with their guns on their shoulders and a belt of bullets around their stomachs and a saber hanging to their sides, came up every night at 6 o’clock to put in 24 hours watching an old woman 82 years of age. Four of those military were in the hall outside of my door and one outside the window and the entire military was just a block away facing my window. The Sisters and priests stood for all that insult. My God how can he stand for the cold blooded hypocrisy of today. Men have no regard for human life. Right on the ground with that convent those uniformed murderers drilled every afternoon to learn how to become experts in the shedding of human blood. The military now is turned on to the working class and priests and presidents and ministers endorse the crime. Oh when the judgment day comes what a reckoning there will be. Tell Emma I have thought of her often in my lonely cell during the last weeks…
I leave again tonight for the field of battle. I suppose that just as soon as I get to Trinidad I will be arrested. They searched the train the night before last to see if I was on it. I presume they will do the same tonight so you can watch the papers. I wish you get the Appeal to Reason of the 21st. Villa, the revolutionary general in Mexico gave Wilson and the Democratic party a terrific slap. Wilson ordered Villa to turn lose the wealthy Mexican who was held in Chihuahua and the Mexican said whenever you turn loose the 82-year-old woman that your military hold incommunicado I will comply with your request. She got protection in Mexico. No one would dare imprison that woman in Mexico but the brave soldiers of the American Revolution held her for nine long weeks.
I will have to close because I am getting al little nervous. Tell Emma to keep well until I see her. I guess the headlines of the papers will notify you what’s happening down here.
I am always yours in the cause of freedom.
Mother
[As written without correction, emphasis added]
“Terence V. Powderly (1849-1924):
Union Leader, Politician, Machinist, Lawyer”
By: Michael Barga
See photo: Mother Jones with Terrence V Powderly, Washington DC, 1909
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/powderly-terrence/
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