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Hellraisers Journal – Friday September 28, 1900
Hazleton District, Pennsylvania – Mother Jones in Midst of Great Anthracite Strike
From The Philadelphia Inquirer of September 24, 1900:
From the San Francisco Examiner of September 22, 1900:
BATTLE BETWEEN THE COAL MINERS AND THE COAL BARONS NOW RAGING
“MOTHER” JONES IS NOT AFRAID
HAZLETON (Pa.), September 21.-To the Editor of “The Examiner”: I have heard threats of being driven out of town and being tarred and feathered. Well, if any one wants to carry out these threats, I’ll show fight; they don’t frighten me. I am not afraid of European stockholders in these mines, nor of their degraded agents. When they talk of tarring and feathering one who is fighting for principle, they are behind the age.
I had a most interesting experience to-day. I met Father Ducey, a grand man, and, with him, visited the heroes of Lattimer, poor crippled beings, living monuments to the cruelty of the slave drivers who are now facing 140,000 desperate men.
Much of the mining stock is held by English, German and Russian aristocrats, who know little of, and care less, for the conditions of the men, women and children who dig and delve and starve, if only fat dividends may be regularly declared. It is not generally known, but I know that Queen Victoria, through her fiscal agents here, owns a great amount of stock in the Illinois Central Railroad, and the Czar of Russia’s private exchequer contains many certificates of stock of the Pennsylvania lines. The spirit of the Hessians sent over by George III still exists among these representatives of the foreign owners of American mines.
This is a great strike, one of the greatest in history, and its assured success will teach a lasting lesson to the slave masters.
MARY “MOTHER” JONES.
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
The Philadelphia Inquirer
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
-Sept 24, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/167226270/
The Examiner
(San Francisco, California)
-Sept 22, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/457700808
See also:
Tag: Great Anthracite Strike of 1900
https://weneverforget.org/tag/great-anthracite-strike-of-1900/
Newsclip:
re Great Anthracite Strike of 1900
-Hazleton PA Plain Speaker of Sept 18, 1900
-Father Ducey Arrives
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58444901/great-anthracite-strike-of/
Rev Fr Thomas J Ducey, 1846-1909 (with drawing)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129911161/thomas-j-ducey
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The Spirit of Mother Jones – Andy Irvine