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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 10, 1913
From West Virginia’s Military Prison, Mother Jones Sends Message to Senator Kern.
From The Wheeling Intelligencer of May 6, 1913:
KERN RESOLUTION CALLED IN SENATE
BUT IS HELD OVER
———-INDIANA SENATOR GIVES WAY
TO SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
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And Resolution Will Come Up Wednesday
-No Reply to Hatfield’s Attack.
———-Intelligencer Bureau.
Washington, D. C. May 5.
The fight over the Kern resolution calling for a sweeping investigation into the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek coal mine strike conditions did not take place today in the United States senate. There was a flutter of excitement when Senator Kern late this afternoon called up his resolution. The excitement died down quickly. Senator Gallinger, interrupting the Indiana man, suggested that the resolution go over until the sundry civil bill had been disposed of, and Senator Kern agreed.
The resolution it is expected will be called up again by Senator Kern on Wednesday. He stated to the Intelligencer correspondent that he does not expect a vote will be cast against.
Senator Kern was deluged with telegrams today urging an investigation. They came from all parts of the country. He received one from “Mother” Jones, who is figuring in the spicy controversy between the Indiana solon and Governor Hatfield, and who is in the coal strike region. Mother Jones wired him as follows:
“From out of the prison walls where I have been forced to pass the eighty-first milestone of life I plead with you for the honor of this nation. I send you groans and tears of men, women and children as I have heard them in this state, and beg of you to force that investigation. Children yet unborn will rise and bless you.“
Signed, Mother Jones.
Facetious Interview.
Senator Kern gave out a facetious interview in reply to Governor Hatfield’s attack upon him. “I guess I’ll have to inlist the services of the McCoy’s,” said Senator Kern laughingly when asked about the Hatfield attack. He added that he had no reply to make to the governor’s statement assailing him. “I have never pretended to have any personal knowledge about conditions in West Virginia,” he said. “I have stated from time to time facts which were presented to me. I felt warranted from those facts in renewing the resolution put in by Senator Borah last session.
“The opposition to the investigation from various quarters has done more to arouse my suspicions that conditions are rotten, than anything else.”
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCE
The Wheeling Intelligencer
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
-May 6, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092536/1913-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Cora Older, at Military Bastile WV, Colliers p26, Apr 1913
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068356118&view=2up&seq=152
See also:
Tag: Senate Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/senate-investigation-of-paint-creek-coal-fields-of-west-virginia-of-1913/
Tag: West Virginia Court Martial of Mother Jones + 48 of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/west-virginia-court-martial-of-mother-jones-48-of-1913/
Tag: Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/paint-creek-cabin-creek-strike-of-1912-1913/
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