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Hellraisers Journal – Friday February 15, 1901
Scranton, Pennsylvania – Mother Jones Coming to Help Striking Silk Mill Girls
From the Philadelphia Times of February 13, 1901:
Special Telegram to THE TIMES.
SCRANTON, February 12.
The fact that “Mother” Jones, the woman who was so prominent during the great anthracite strike last fall, is coming here to help the striking silk mill girls, has served to give a new impetus to the young women and their supporters. To-day everything was quiet here, but underneath the surface could be seen a suppressed excitement and “Mother” Jones’ arrival is very anxiously awaited.
Her coming means much to the girls, for “Mother” Jones is a leader, and there is no more popular woman hereabouts than she is. It was expected that she would arrive in time to attend the meeting held to-night in St. John’s Hall by the girls employed in the Klotz mill.
The strikers’ ranks were augmented to-day by the news from Pittston that the three hundred employes of the silk mill in that place had gone out in sympathy with the Scranton strikers, confirming the exclusive announcement made in THE TIMES yesterday morning that the sympathy movement would be worked in the mills down the valley.
It was also asserted that the West Pittston mill would probably go out to-morrow, or, at the farthest, in a couple of days, while the Avoca mill is also expected to shut down.
The strikers, while not looking for any concessions from the mill owners, are hopeful that some concessions will he made within a week or two, but have nothing definite on which to base their conclusion, and the theory is not given general credence.
The strikers contend that the mill owners will have to come to time soon, as every day the mills are idle means an enormous loss to them, and for their own protection they will not let it last much longer. If a proposition is not forthcoming from the management before very long it is the intention of the strikers to bring all the influence they can bear on the local stockholders, and in that way bring the struggle to an end, pursuing the same tactics that were used so successfully in settling the recent street car strike.
This afternoon the Harvey silk mill girls to the number of six hundred attended a meeting held in Carpenter’s Hull, at which addresses were made by various of the leaders.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Hzltn Pln Spkr p4, Nov 15, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/98099248/
The Times
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
-Feb 13, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/53400961/
See also:
Tag: Pennsylvania Silk Mill Workers Strikes of 1900
https://weneverforget.org/tag/pennsylvania-silk-mill-workers-strikes-of-1900/
Tag: Great Anthracite Strike of 1900
https://weneverforget.org/tag/great-anthracite-strike-of-1900/
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