Hellraisers Journal: From the Denver United Labor Bulletin: Old Mother Jones Held Incommunicado in Dark Cellar Cell

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Quote Mother Jones re Walsenburg Cellar Cell, Mar 22, 1914 x26 days, Ab Chp 21, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday March 31, 1914
Walsenburg, Colorado – Mother Jones Confined in Dark Cellar Cell

From Denver’s United Labor Bulletin of March 28, 1914:

Mother Jones Held in Dark Cellar Cell at Walsenburg CO, ULB p1, Mar 28, 1914

Note: Mother was arrested at Walsenburg by the Colorado militia on Monday March 23rd, at about 5:30 a. m. She has been confined, since that time, in the same dark cold cellar cell that was the cause of the death of striking miner Kostas Marcos.

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From The Masses of February 1914: Mother Jones by Art Young

Mother Jones Hell Hounds by Art Young, Masses p7, Feb 1914

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones re Walsenburg Cellar Cell, Mar 22, 1914 x26 days,
Ab Chp 21, 1925
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/21/

United Labor Bulletin
(Denver, Colorado)
-Mar 28, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-03-28/ed-1/seq-1/

The Masses
(New York, New York)
-Feb 1914
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/masses/issues/tamiment/t35-v05n05-m33-feb-1914.pdf

See also:

Mar 28, 1914, Duluth Labor World
“Military Tyranny in Mountain State”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1914-03-28/ed-1/seq-1/

Mar 28, 1914, Appeal to Reason p1+2
“Strikers Tortured by John D.’s Hirelings”
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/140328-appealtoreason-w956.pdf

Mar 28, 1914, Seattle Union Record
“[Colorado] Operators…Urge Militia to Almost Indescribable
Cruelties in Revenge for Congressional Investigation”
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1009546486

Mar 30, 1914, Chicago Day Book p32
-UMW officials protest Walsenburg CO Cellar Cell
where Mother Jones is held as a military prisoner.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-03-30/ed-2/seq-32/

Mar 30, 1914, The Milwaukee Leader
-Mother Jones: “injustice of her fate [may] inspire
rebellion or revolution.”-republished from New York World
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045293/1914-03-30/ed-1/seq-10/

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday March 25 1914
Walsenburg, Colorado – Mother Jones Held Incommunicado on Orders of Gen. Chase in a Cold Cellar Cell

Tag: Military Despotism Colorado 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/military-despotism-colorado-1914/

Tag: Kostas Marcos
https://weneverforget.org/tag/kostas-marcos/

Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/

Tag: Denver United Labor Bulletin
https://weneverforget.org/tag/denver-united-labor-bulletin/

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