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Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 7, 1903
Polly Pry Pays Her Respects to Mother Jones, “The Hideous Hag”
From Goodwin’s Weekly of December 5, 1903:
From the Duluth Labor World of December 5, 1903
-Mother Jones, Lioness, Miner’s Angel and Patron Saint:
[Photo from Denver Post of November 22, 1903]
From The Rocky Mountain News of December 5, 1903
-John Mitchell Prepares to Leave Denver, Comments on Mother Jones:
“Did ‘Mother’ Jones in advising [the northern miners] against accepting the propositions of the operators commit a breach of discipline sufficient to cause her discharge?” Mr. Mitchell was asked.
“‘Mother’ Jones is still in our employ,” he replied, with a smile…..
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Goodwin’s Weekly
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-Dec 5, 1903
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78258234/
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Dec 5, 1903
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1903-12-05/ed-1/seq-4/
The Denver Post
(Denver, Colorado)
-Nov 22, 1903
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-133D9E4DC7740CF0@2416441-133D91247A8BF9E0@0
The Rocky Mountain News
(Denver, Colorado)
-Dec 5, 1903
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-146DD6FC6F1F3798@2416454-146BDD4F92B517D0@0-146BDD4F92B517D0
See also:
Polly Pry (Mrs. Leonel Campbell Ross O’Bryan), 1857–1938
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Pry
Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Defies John Mitchell at Louisville Meeting
Speaks Out Against Separate Settlement for the Striking Coal Miners of Northern Colorado
Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones May Be Forced Out of UMW
Due to Her Opposition to Settlement of Northern Colorado Miners Which Mitchell Favored
Hellraisers Journal: Colorado’s Northern Miners Vote to Resume Work
Mitchell Scores Victory Over Mother Jones
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
Kerr, 1925
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/
Chapter 13 – The Cripple Creek Strike
Note: In this chapter, Mother conflates Cripple Creek Strike with Coal Strike, uncorrected by editor Mary Field Parton.
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/13/
Tag: Polly Pry
https://weneverforget.org/tag/polly-pry/
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1903-1904
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1903-1904/
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The Death of Mother Jones · Bobbie McGee