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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday March 29, 1904
Trinidad, Colorado – Coal Strike Leaders Deported on Orders of Governor Peabody
From The Scranton Republican of March 28, 1904
MOTHER” JONES AND OTHERS DEPORTED
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Major Hill Commanding State Militia at Trinidad
Causes Her Arrest on Saturday.
DENVER, Colo., March 27.-Having received authority from the governor to act upon his judgment, Major Hill, commanding the state militia at Trinidad last night arrested “Mother” Jones, William Wardjon of Iowa, Joseph Pagini [Poggiani] and Adolph Bartolli, placed them on an eastbound train, and ordered them never to return to Trinidad or Las Animas county.
“Mother” Jones has been in Trinidad several months encouraging the strikers and counseling the driving out of non-union workers. Wardjon is an officer of the Iowa United Mine Workers who has been in Las Animas county for some time. He recently addressed a gathering of strikers advising that the non-union miners in the southern district be sent out in coffins. He further said that had such measures been taken here the strike would have been settled long ago. He called the Trinidad miners cowards, and said that if they had not shown cowardice and had done as he advised, the strike would not have lasted three weeks let alone three months.
A stenographic report of the speech was furnished Gov. Peabody before deporting Wardjon and others. Finding it was lawful and had been done in other states under similar circumstances, the government answered Major Hill’s request for authority to deport by placing the matter in the officer’s hands.
Pagini and Bartolli, who were deported with Wardjon and Mother Jones, are editors of the Italian Weekly at Trinidad, which was suppressed yesterday because of its rabid anarchistic editorials. President Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners, arrested yesterday for desecration of the flag, spent last night in jail at Telluride, being unable to secure bail.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
As can be seen from the above article, the kept press is always quick to accuse leaders of the United Mine Workers of America of inciting violence, yet violence committed against those same leaders by deputized private gun thugs draws no such criticism.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, CFI Owns Colorado, re 1903 Strikes UMW WFM,
Ab Chp 13, 1925
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/13/
The Scranton Republican
(Scranton, Pennsylvania)
-Mar 28, 1904
https://www.newspapers.com/image/48099483/
IMAGE
Mother Jones Deported, DP p10, Mar 28, 1904
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-133DED07AFB38858@2416568-133DE58F6C038C30@9
See also:
Mar 27, 1904, The Salt Lake Tribune p1
“Hand of Militia Laid on Strike Chieftains”
-Mother Jones and Other Strike Leaders Deported
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/1904-03-27/ed-1/seq-1/
Mar 28, 1904, The Salt Lake Tribune p1
“Deported Strike Chiefs to Return”
-So Says UMW Pres. John Mitchell
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/1904-03-28/ed-1/seq-1/
Mar 27, 1904, The Denver Post p1
-Mother Jones, Joe Poggiani, William Wardjon and Adolph Bartolli Deported from Trinidad to La Junta
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-133DED06D5D91808@2416567-133DE58B375C8FC8@0-133DE58B375C8FC8
Mar 27, 1904, The Denver Post p4
-Gov Peabody states that Mother Jones has been making incendiary speeches and that he has a stenographic copy of one of them.
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-133DED06D5D91808@2416567-133DE58B3B38D3E0@3
Mar 28, 1904, The Denver Post p2
-Mother Jones travels to Denver by train, speaks with Gov. Peabody’s son, asks him to pray for withdrawal of troops.
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-133DED07AFB38858@2416568-133DE58F64630870@1-133DE58F64630870
Hellraisers Journal – Monday March 28, 1904
-Colorado Governor Peabody Plots Further Deportations from Strike Zones
Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday February 17, 1904
Trinidad, Colorado – Fairly and Mooney Recovering from Violent Attack
Tag: Joe Poggiani
https://weneverforget.org/tag/joe-poggiani/
Tag: Telluride Strike of 1903-1904
https://weneverforget.org/tag/telluride-strike-of-1903-1904/
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1903-1904
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1903-1904/
The Cripple Creek Strike
A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5
Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts
of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism
-by Emma F. Langdon
Great Western Publishing Company, 1905
(search: mother jones deported)-p297
https://books.google.com/books?id=WrF-AAAAMAAJ
A Report on Labor Disturbances in the State of Colorado
1880-1904
United States. Bureau of Labor
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905
(search: mother jones deported)-p350
https://books.google.com/books?id=txQZAAAAYAAJ
Autobiography of Mother Jones
Chapter 13
CH Kerr, 1925
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/13/
One night when I came in from the field where I had been holding meetings, I was just dropping to sleep when a knock-a loud knock-came on my door. I always slept in my clothes for I never knew what might happen. I went to the door, opened it, and faced a military chap.
“The Colonel wants you up at head-quarters.”
I went with him immediately. Three or four others were brought in: War John and Joe Pajammy, organizers. We were all taken down to the Santa Fe station. While standing there, waiting for the train that was to deport us some of the miners ran down to bid me good bye. “Mother, good-bye,” they said, stretching out their hands to take mine.
The colonel struck their hands and yelled at them. “Get away from there. You can’t’ shake hands with that woman!”
The militia took us to La Junta. They handed me a letter from the governor, notifying me that under no circumstances could I return to the State of Colorado. I sat all night in the station. In the morning the Denver train came along. I had no food, no money. I asked the conductor to take me to Denver. He said he would.
“Well,” I said, “I don’t want you to lose your job.” I showed him the letter from the governor. He read it.
“Mother,” he said, “do you want to go to Denver?”
“I do,” said I.
“Then to Hell with the job;” said he, “it’s to Denver you go.”
In Denver I got a room and rested a while I sat down and wrote a letter to the governor the obedient little boy of the coal companies.
Mr. Governor, you notified your dogs of war to put me out of the state. They complied with your instructions. I hold in my hand a letter that was handed to me by one of them, which says ‘under no circumstances return to this state.’ I wish to notify you, governor, that you don’t own the state. When it was admitted to the sisterhood of states, my fathers gave me a share of stock in it; and that is all they gave to you. The civil courts are open. If I break a law of state or nation it is the duty of the civil courts to deal with me. That is why my fore-fathers established those courts to keep dictators and tyrants such as you from interfering with civilians. I am right here in the capital, after being out nine or ten hours, four or five blocks from your office. I want to ask you, governor, what in Hell are you going to do about it?
I called a messenger and sent it up to the governor’s office. He read it and a reporter, who was present in the office at the time told me his face grew red.
“What shall I do?” he said to the reporter. He was used to acting under orders. “Leave her alone,” counseled the reporter. “There is no more patriotic citizen in America.”
[Emphasis added.]
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