Hellraisers Journal: From The Socialist and Labor Star: “The Capture of Mother Jones” by W. A. Pease of Rock Springs, Wyoming

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Quote Mother Jones, Chase No Own State, RMN p3, Jan 12, 1914—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 15, 1914
“The Capture of Mother Jones” by W. A. Pease

From The Socialist and Labor Star of February 13, 1914:

Trinidad CO Mother Jones Surrounded by Bayonets, Sc Lbr Str p1, Feb 13, 1914Poem Capture of Mother Jones by WA Pease, Sc Lbr Str p1, Feb 13, 1914Poem Capture of Mother Jones by WA Pease 2, Sc Lbr Str p1, Feb 13, 1914

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Quote Mother Jones, Chase No Own State, RMN p3, Jan 12, 1914
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The Socialist and Labor Star
(Huntington, West Virginia)
-Feb 13, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059765/1914-02-13/ed-1/seq-1/

See also:

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/

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The Charge on Mother Jones · Utah Phillips

THE CHARGE ON MOTHER JONES
(William M. Rogers)

The patriotic soldiers came marching down the pike,
Prepared to shoot and slaughter in the Colorado strike;
With whiskey in their bellies and vengeance in their souls,
They prayed that God would help them shoot the miners full of
holes.

In front of these brave soldiers loomed a sight you seldom see:
A white-haired rebel woman whose age was eighty-three.
“Charge!” cried the valiant captain, in awful thunder tones,
And the patriotic soldiers “CHARGED” and captured Mother Jones.

‘Tis great to be a soldier with a musket in your hand,
Ready’ for any bloody work the lords of earth command.
‘Tis great to shoot a miner and hear his dying groans
But never was such glory as that “charge” on Mother Jones!

Note: Mr. Rogers, recited this to the W. Virginia Federation of
Labor sometime between 1917 and 1920
https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6037#google_vignette

From the Fairmont West Virginian of May 31, 1919:
W. M. Rogers, Fairmont, president of the State Federation of Labor

Tag: William M Rogers
https://weneverforget.org/tag/william-m-rogers/

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