Hellraisers Journal: International Socialist Review: Mother Jones and the Silk Mill Strike at Scranton, Pennsylvania

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Quote Mother Jones, St L Lbr, Apr 13, 1901—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 15, 1901
Mother Jones Leads Silk Mill Strikers to Victory at Scranton

From the International Socialist Review of June 1901:

World of Labor Max Hayes, ISR p813, June 1901

Mother Jones, Drawing, SDH p4, Mar 9, 1901

The silk weavers’ strike at Scranton, Pa., which was directed by Mother Jones, and which has been pending for many months, was won by the workers, while the strike at Paterson, N. J., was lost, owing largely to the fact that the courts issued an injunction against the women and children, and the police assaulted them for attempting to persuade scabs to refuse to work. “Mother,” besides organizing for the unions, is now putting in some spare time in forming unions of domestic servants.

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Editorial, ISR p822, June 1901

We have just received the following letter from “Mother Jones,” which we must again offer in place of the promised article. We feel sure that our readers will appreciate the reason for the delay:

Dear Comrades:

I owe you an apology for not writing to you before. You know I had a strike of 4,000 children on my hands for three months and could not spare a moment. If that strike was lost it meant untold oppression for these little helpless things. They came out victorious and gave their masters a good hammering. I could not write a thing for June, but will for July.

I have had a very hard winter’s work, but have done just as much for socialism as if I were writing articles. One very cheering feature is that the cause is growing everywhere. I have been landing plenty of literature In the hands of the boys.

[Drawing of Mother Jones and emphasis added.]

Flower doodle graphic, ISR p824, June 1901

From The Philadelphia Inquirer of February 16, 1901:

Mother Jones n Silk Strikers of Scranton, Phl Iq p2, Feb 16, 1901

From the Philadelphia Times of February 18, 1901:

Mother Jones n Silk Strikers of Scranton, Phl Tx p4, Feb 18, 1901

From the Philadelphia Times of February 19, 1901:

Mother Jones at Scranton Silk Strike, Phl Tx p4, Feb 19, 1901—–Mother Jones re Scranton Silk Strikers, Phl Tx p4, Feb 19, 1901

From the New York Worker of May 5, 1901:

Mother Jones, Victory Scranton Silk Strike, NY Worker p1, May 5, 1901

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SOURCES

Quote Mother Jones, St L Lbr, Apr 13, 1901
The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988
-Page268 (290 of 361)
“The Strike in Scranton”
-from St. Louis Labor of Apr 13, 1901
https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735035254105/viewer#page/290/mode/2up

The International Socialist Review, Volume 1
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 1900-June 1901
Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1901
https://books.google.com/books?id=KJ_VAAAAMAAJ
ISR – June 1901, pages 816 & 823
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v01n12-jun-1901-ISR-gog-Wisc.pdf

IMAGES

Mother Jones, Drawing, SDH p4, Mar 9, 1901
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/social-democratic-herald-us/010309-socdemherald-v03n38w140.pdf

Mother Jones n Silk Strikers of Scranton, Phl Iq p2, Feb 16, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/168042629

Mother Jones n Silk Strikers of Scranton, Phl Tx p4, Feb 18, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/53401049/

Mother Jones at Scranton Silk Strike, Phl Tx p4, Feb 19, 1901
Mother Jones re Scranton Silk Strikers, Phl Tx p4, Feb 19, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/53401061/

Mother Jones, Victory Scranton Silk Strike, NY Worker p1, May 5, 1901
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/the-people-the-worker/010505-worker-v11n05.pdf

See also:
Tag: Pennsylvania Silk Mill Workers Strikes of 1901
https://weneverforget.org/tag/pennsylvania-silk-mill-workers-strikes-of-1901/

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Children of Mother Jones by Pete Duffy