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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:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Chase No Own State, RMN p3, Jan 12, 1914
https://www.genealogybank.com///image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-1478F5FED1489F20@2420145-14776648A6574308@2
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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