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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday January 11, 1921
Mexico City – Mother Jones Attends Pan-American Labor Conference
From The Pittsburg Press of January 9, 1921:
“MOTHER” JONES WILL BE
OBREGON’S GUEST.
—–Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 8.-Treasuring an invitation to be the guest of President Alvaro Obregon, of Mexico, during her stay in Mexico City, “Mother” Jones left here accompanied by Fred Mooney, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of this district, to attend the Pan-American labor conference. She has been in West Virginia working among the miners for some time.
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[Photographs and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, IN DlyT Ipls p1, July 15, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047611/1920-07-15/ed-1/seq-1/
The Pittsburg Press
(Pittsburg, Pennsylvania)
-Jan 9, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/145650930/
IMAGES
Mother Jones, IN Dly Tx p1, July 15, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047611/1920-07-15/ed-1/seq-1/
UMW D17, Mooney Keeney, Lbtr p9, Aug 1920
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1920/08/v3n08-w29-aug-1920-liberator.pdf
See also:
Álvaro Obregón
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Obreg%C3%B3n
Struggle in the Coal Fields
The Autobiography of Fred Mooney
-ed by J. W. Hess
West Virginia University Library, 1967
(search: “mother jones” “pan american”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=nE3tAAAAMAAJ
-page 79: Mooney describes arrival near Mexico City with Mother:
I left Charleston on January 4, 1921 with Mother Jones….[We] left Nuevo Laredo, about 9:00 p. m. Thursday, January 7…..
Within about 40 miles of Mexico City, the train stopped quite suddenly. When I looked out there was a string of taxi cabs blocking the railroad tracks. About 40 strikers from a jewelry factory had motored out to meet “Madre Yones.” They used red flags to stop the train, then boarded it. Mother Jones was in one seat and I occupied the next seat forward. They threw crimson carnations and blue violets around Mother until only her head and shoulders could be seen. While throwing the flowers they continuously yelled “welcome to Mexico, Madre Yones.” When they learned I was accompanying Mother they stuck carnations in my hat band and the lapel of my coat.
We were taken from the train, loaded into one of the cabs, and taken into the city with much yelling and tooting of auto horns. They deposited us at the entrance of the St. Francis Hotel and saw to it that we were safely escorted to our rooms…..
[Emphasis added.]
The American Federationist, Volume 28, Part 1
AFL, 1921
https://books.google.com/books?id=RxlXAAAAYAAJ
Mar 1921 -p167
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=RxlXAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA168-IA3
-p193-200: re PAFL by Gompers
(Pan American Federation of Labor 3rd Convention
Mexico City Jan 10-18, Inclusive, 1921)
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=RxlXAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA193
Report of Proceedings of the Forty-First Annual Convention
of the American Federation of Labor
Denver, CO, June 13 to 25, Inclusive, 1921
https://books.google.com/books?id=44vRiJapEb8C
-p82-89: Report to AFL Convention re PAFL
(Pan American Federation of Labor 3rd Convention
Mexico City Jan 10-18, Inclusive, 1921)
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=44vRiJapEb8C&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA82
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