Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Arrives in West Virginia to Assist Organizing Drive of the United Mine Workers of America

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Quote Mother Jones, Contented Slave, St Louis Pst Dsp p3, June 17, 1901 —————

Hellraisers Journal  – Friday July 26, 1901
Morgantown, West Virginia – Mother Jones Arrives with U. M. W. Organizers

From the Baltimore Sun of  July 24, 1901:

 

APPEALING TO MINERS
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“Mother” Jones Arrives In The West Virginia Field.

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

(Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.)

Morgantown, W. Va., July 23.-The organization known as the United Mine Workers of America will make a desperate effort this summer to bring all the West Virginia miners now outside of their organization into it.

Thomas Burker [Burke], Edward Cahill, John H. Walker and Mary Jones, known as “Mother” Jones, arrived from Indianapolis yesterday and will begin their work here……

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[Photograph and emphasis added.]

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SOURCES

Quote Mother Jones, St Louis Pst Dsp p3, June 17, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/138851726/

The Sun
(Baltimore, Maryland)
-July 24, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/365309312/

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

See also:

re Mother Jones in West Virginia during summer of 1901
-per Dorothy Adams:
From The Tammany Times of Aug 12, 1901
https://books.google.com/books?id=cqo6AQAAMAAJ
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=cqo6AQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.RA39-PA10

Tag: John H Walker
https://weneverforget.org/tag/john-h-walker/

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She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
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