Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Speaks on Labor Day to Miners at Thurber, Texas; Travels by Train to Trinidad, Colorado

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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday September 4, 1913
Mother Jones Speaks to Miners at Thurber, Texas; Travels to Trinidad

From the Fort Worth Record of August 31, 1913:

From the Trinidad Chronicle-News of September 3, 1913:

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Stick Together, MI Mnrs Bltn p1, Aug 14, 1913
Copy in possession of JR

Fort Worth Record
(Fort Worth, Texas)
-Aug 31, 1913
https://www.newspapers.com/image/634341096/

The Chronicle-News
(Trinidad, Colorado)
-Sept 3, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1913-09-03/ed-1/seq-5/

See also:

Sept 1, 1913, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
-Mother Jones Speaks on Labor Day at Thurber, Texas
https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-sept-1-1913-f/131209788/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-sept-1-1913-f/131210337/

Sept 1, 1913, Evansville Press
-Mother Jones Expected at Labor Day Celebration
https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-press-sept-1-1913-evansvill/131210755/

Sept 2, 1913, Evansville Press
-Mother Jones a no-show at Labor Day celebration.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-press-sept-2-1913-evansvill/131210941/

Sept 2, 1913, Streator Daily Free Press
-UMWA President John P White Celebrates Labor Day
https://www.newspapers.com/image/542684876/?clipping_id=131211307
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-sept-2-1913-streator-daily-f/131211501/

Sept 3, 1913, El Paso Herald
-Mother Jones from Thurber TX to Trinidad CO Via Colorado and Southern
Note: Unlikely that Mother was met by UMWA Pres. John P White at Trinidad as he was not in Colorado at this time, according to my research. More likely, she was met by UMWA VP Frank Hayes.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/el-paso-herald-sept-3-1913-el-paso-her/131212087/

Thurber, TX
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/thurber-tx

Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/

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