Hellraisers Journal – Saturday January 29, 1910
Indianpolis, Indiana – Mother Jones Speaks to Her Boys
From The Indianapolis News of January 26, 1910:
UNIONS OF MINERS TO WORK TOGETHER —– U. M. W. of A. Adopts Report of Joint Committee Advocating It. ——
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Indianapolis Star of January 25, 1910
The adoption of the report of the joint committee representing the United Mine Workers of America and the Western Federation of Miners, that had, in accordance with previous action by the convention, drawn up an agreement for a closer connection between the two organizations, was one of the important matters at this morning’s session of the United Mine Workers of America, in annual meeting in Tomlinson hall. The report, among other advised the co-operation of the organizers of the two unions in organizing the non-union coal miners and metal miners in every section of the American continent. The recommendations of the joint committee must next be referred to the Western Federation of Miners……
Mother Jones Speaks.
After music by the Lianelly Royal Welsh choir, which was applauded with a warmth that showed thorough appreciation. President [Thomas L.] Lewis introduced Mother Jones, who misses no convention of the miners. Mother Jones arraigned capital and set forth the claims of labor to better treatment. She referred to the anthracite strike and the Colorado strike.
She spoke of the financeering ability of the woman that attends to the purchasing for a large family and said such a woman does not get the credit she deserves. She criticised the National Civic Federation and said she would rather die in jail than to die eating a meal with the civic federation.
She said she was going to Milwaukee to organise the girls in the breweries and then she was going to St. Louis and then she was going to the anthracite field to “start another war if you don’t move up.”
She said she was in favor of the destruction of jails and turning them into school houses, and making the jailers “do an honest day’s work.”
She congratulated the delegates on the action taken in relation to the Western Federation of Miner, and said that the time had come when “we should clasp bands together.”
Before her talk she had greeted a number of her old friends, even kissing one or two toward whom she had an especially warm feeling of regard.
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[Photograph and emphasis added.]
From The Fort Wayne News of January 26, 1910:
Kissed By Mother Jones
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan 26-Impetuous “Mother” Jones, whose hair has grown white in leading strikes for the United Mine Workers, was so rejoiced to see her old fried, W. R. Fairley, of Alabama, who has also grown gray in the same cause, at the convention today that she seized him and gave him three kisses right before the assembled 1,500 delegates. Fairley, blushing like a schoolboy, embraced the veteran agitator and planted a kiss on her cheek.
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