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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday January 8, 1914
Denver, Colorado – Stormy Petrel of the Strikers States She Will Return
From the San Francisco Bulletin of January 7, 1914:
From the Chicago Day Book of January 5, 1914:
MOTHER JONES DEPORTED
Denver, Col., Jan. 5.-“Mother” Jones, the “angel” of the miners, was forcibly deported from the coal strike district at Trinidad on orders of General Chase, who had her met at the depot “when she arrived from El Paso and kept under surveillance of a detachment of military until the arrival of a train for Denver, when she was put aboard.
Lieut. H. O. Nichols and four soldiers guarded her to Denver. When the train reached Walsenburg, where “Mother” Jones had expected to make a speech to the strikers, she tried to talk to a group gathered around the station, but was prevented.
As the train pulled out of the station, she shouted: “I expect to visit you again, when Colorado is made part of the United States, but now-”
General Chase has ordered that she be sent out of the district never to return so long as the strike lasts. He says she will be deported every time she comes back. Mother Jones says she will return in two weeks.
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, re Chase Deportation: Will Return to Trinidad
-Carbondale PA Daily Free Press p1, Jan 6, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/10594473
The Bulletin
(San Francisco, California)
-Jan 7, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/994931045/
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jan 5, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-05/ed-2/seq-12/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Monday January 5, 1914
Trinidad, Colorado – Mother Jones Deported from Strike Zone by Militia
Tag: Military Despotism Colorado 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/military-despotism-colorado-1913/
Tag: Military Despotism Colorado 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/military-despotism-colorado-1914/
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/
The Commonwealth (Everett WA) of Jan 8, 1914
“Troops Escort Mother Jones From Trinidad”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025731/1914-01-08/ed-1/seq-1/
United Labor Bulletin (Denver CO) of Jan 10, 1914
“Brave General Chase Deports “Mother” Jones from Trinidad
-Camp Angel, 82 Years of Age, Militia Victim”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-01-10/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-01-10/ed-1/seq-4/
The Labor World (Duluth MN) of Jan 10, 1914
“Mother Jones Will Return to Trinidad
-Deported Last Sunday by Colorado Troops, Mine Angel Says She’ll Be Back
-Gen. Chase Declares He’ll Put Her in Jail
-Only Charge Against Her Was Fear That Her Speech Would Keep Men Out”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1914-01-10/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1914-01-10/ed-1/seq-3/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1914-01-10/ed-1/seq-4/
Appeal to Reason (Girard KS) of Jan 10, 1914, p1
“Mother Jones Deported”
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/140110-appealtoreason-w945.pdf
January 5th & 6th, 1914-from Trinidad to Denver, Colorado
-State Militia’s Deportation of Mother Jones Reported Across the Nation
General Chase and the Colorado National Guard got more publicity than bargained for with the heavy-handed tactics employed in deporting Mother Jones from Trinidad on Sunday, Jan. 4th. The story quickly became national news and continued to be reported in small and large newspapers across the nation, for example:
From The Daily Free Press (Carbondale, IL) of January 6, 1914:
“MOTHER” JONES IS DEFIANT
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Deported from Colorado Strike Zone to “Preserve Peace,”
She Declares She’s Going Back.
———-Denver. Jan. 6.-“Mother” Jones, in Denver, declared she would make another attempt to go to the southern Colorado coal fields following her deportation from Trinidad Sunday, by state militiamen. Gen. John Chase, commanding the troops at Trinidad, announce that she was deported to “preserve peace.”
“I’m going back to Trinidad just as soon as I get ready. I’m going back there to assert my constitutional rights. Adjt. Chase may put me in jail, but Mother Jones is not meekly going to be robbed of her rights,” she said.
“The presence of Mrs. Jones here at this time cannot be tolerated,” said Chase. “She had planned to go to the Ludlow tent colony of strikers to stop the desertion of union members. If she returns she will be placed in jail and held incommunicado.”
[Emphasis added.]
From The Scranton [PA] Truth of January 6, 1914:
GROSS VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
IS CHARGEDWashington, D. C., Jan. 6.-“Gross violation of constitutional rights” by the Colorado militia in the Trinidad coal strike were charged in a telegram received today by Representative Keating of Colorado from a committee of five appointed by the Colorado Federation of Labor, at the suggestion of the governor, to investigate the coal strike. They appealed for a congressional investigation of the strike.
They indicated that impeachment charges would be filed against General Chase, commanding the militia. That further deportations of strike leaders are planned by the militia, following that of “Mother” Jones, was asserted in the telegram.
Keating replied he had every reason to believe congress would order an investigation soon after reconvening January 12.
[Emphasis added.]
SOURCES
The Daily Free Press (Carbondale, IL) of Jan 6, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/10594473
The Scranton Truth (Scranton, PA) of Jan 6, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/50139396/
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Children of Mother Jones by Pete Duffy