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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday May 30, 1901
Mother Jones Arrives in West Virginia to Organize Coal Miners
From the Bluefield Daily Telegraph of May 29, 1901:
Mother Jones to Organize Miners
Wheeling, May 28-Mother Jones, who has been sent here by the United Mine Workers to try to organize the miners in the Clarksburg and Fairmont districts, held a big meeting at the opera house tonight. All previous efforts to organize the miners have failed.
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[Drawing and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote John Mitchell, re Mother Jones, UMWC PM Session, Jan 25, 1901
The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988
(page 4, search: “we all love to call Mother”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
(Bluefield, West Virginia)
-May 29, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/18575752/
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:
The Clarksburg Telegram
(Clarksburg, West Virginia)
-May 24, 1901, column 4
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84037844/1901-05-24/ed-1/seq-1/
-May 31, 1901, column 6
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84037844/1901-05-31/ed-1/seq-1/
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