Hellraisers Journal: Oyster Bay-President Roosevelt Refuses to See Mother Jones and Her Army of Child Textile Strikers

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Quote Mother Jones to TR, These Little Children, Phl No Am July 16, 1903, Foner p552—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday August 1, 1903
Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York-President Refuses to Meet with Mother Jones

From The New York Times of July 30, 1903:

Mother Jones March of the Mill Children, TR Refuses MJ and Army, NYT p2, July 30, 1903

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones to TR, These Little Children
Philadelphia North American, July 16, 1903, Foner p552
https://books.google.com/books?newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=T_m5AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22john+lopez%22+%22philadelphia+north+american%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=theodore+roosevelt+elizabeth

The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-July 30, 1903
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20590034/

See also:

New York Tribune
(New York, New York)
-July 30, 1903,
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1903-07-30/ed-1/seq-9/

The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Aug 8, 1903
Mother does not see Pres., Confronts Sen. Pratt at Hotel
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1903-08-08/ed-1/seq-6/

Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Writes to President Roosevelt:
“These little children, raked by cruel toil beneath the iron wheels of greed…”

Tag: March of the Mill Children
https://weneverforget.org/tag/march-of-the-mill-children/

7/29-From Social Democratic Club, 64 E 4th St, New York, NY
to 20 Sagamore Hill Rd, Oyster Bay, NY, and return to NYC.
Note: NYC papers did not describe the doings or whereabouts of Mother Jones and her Army from when they left the Oriental Hotel on the morning of Monday, July 27th, until they left for Oyster Bay on the morning of Wednesday, July 29th.

NYC papers stated that the Army bunked at the Social Democratic Club (HQ of SP of NY), while Mother stayed at the Ashland House.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/64+E+4th+St,+New+York,+NY+10003/Sagamore+Hill+National+Historic+Site,+20+Sagamore+Hill+Rd,+Oyster+Bay,+NY+11771/@40.8744602,-73.6999926,8z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c25984cb6ac3bb:0x12d39ba99e901a48!2m2!1d-73.9906473!2d40.7264384!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c29d33beacc49d:0x6d058ee6bea6655b!2m2!1d-73.5010296!2d40.8855293?authuser=0&entry=ttu

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The Spirit of Mother Jones – Andy Irvine