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Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 20, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for April 1910, Part II:
-Found in Washington D. C. Berating Author of Dick Military Law
From the Duluth Labor World of April 30, 1910:
MOTHER JONES RAKES OHIO’S
WATCH CHARM SENATOR
OVER COALS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29.— Mother Jones, whose “boys” are working in every coal mine in Pennsylvania and every mineral camp of Colorado, met Senator Dick, of the notorious Dick military law, as that urbane member of the upper house was standing in the senate lobby of the [Capitol].
All smiles and gladness the senator acknowledged the introduction to the white-haired woman and offered his hand, but “Mother” dropped hers significantly to her side:
I’m fighting you, Senator Dick. It was your work that sent two thousand guns out to Colorado in the last big strike, and shot us up.
“You don’t look as if you had been injured, Madam,” flushed the senator.
“No thanks to your law and the guns that killed others while they missed me,” answered the woman whose appearance and participation in almost every miners’ strike during the last thirty years has earned for her the name of “stormy petrel.”
“But, madam,” argued Senator Dick, “don’t we need soldiers in time of revolution?”
[Flashed Mother Jones:]
In the revolution that drove King George back across the sea, yes. But do we need a law that will do for America what the Irish constabulary law did for Ireland? No, no. Senator Dick, I saw the brutal and bloody work of the militia in Colorado, and the truth is that the guns your law would place in the hands of the mine owners and the mill owners are loaded with bullets for the hearts of the workers.
The seventy-six years of the old, white-haired woman dropped from her like magic as she “spoke her mind” for her “boys” to the most powerful Republican senator from the most powerful Republican state in the Union.
“And why are you in Washington, madam?” evasively questioned the senator.
[Answered the relentless agitator:]
To help undo the work of another tyrant that rules with guns—I mean Diaz.
At this moment twelve strokes of the clock brought a longed for relief to the quivering senator, and with a hasty bow he left the gathered group and disappeared into the senate chamber.
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[Photograph added.]
MOTHER JONES in WASHINGTON D. C. – APRIL 1910
From The Washington Times of April 19, 1910:
TO SEND TELEGRAM TO MAYOR SEIDEL
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Central Labor Union Votes to Congratulate Socialists
in Milwaukee on Recent Victory.A telegram is being prepared by Central Labor Union to be sent to Mayor-elect Seidel and Alderman-at-Large Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee, congratulating them on their recent victory at the polls. A resolution providing for this tribute was passed last night at the weekly meeting of the union, but it is intended to honor the Milwaukee officers as trade unionists and not as socialists. The resolution was introduced by Sam De Nedrey, and opposition to it on the ground that such an action would put labor in light of favoring socialism, was led by P. J. Ryan.
Mother Jones, of national fame as the friend of the miners, made a short address. She spoke of labor conditions in Mexico, and asked for the support of Central Labor Union in her fight to gain the freedom of Mexican revolutionists.
P. J. Ryan, chairman of the legislative committee, introduced a resolution indorsing the bill of Representative Wiley, which provides for a college of agriculture and mechanic arts in the District.
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From the Duluth Labor World of April 23, 1910:
SOLON HAS BACKING OF ORGANIZED LABOR
IN UNMASKING DIAZ
———-WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.—Outlining senatorial evidence in his possession, showing that a number of Mexican political refugees have lately been imprisoned in the United States jails for from four to eighteen months and then discharged without trial because of the entire lack of evidence to convict them of breaking United States laws, Representative Nicholls of Pennsylvania appeared before the house committee on judiciary and asked for a favorable report upon his bill demanding investigation of the imprisonment of Magon, Villarreal and Rivera, three victims named.
Nicholls is in receipt of letters from every part of the country asking for this investigation, and witnesses from the border states have signified their willingness to come to Washington and testify before a congressional committee as to the systematic persecution, in this country, of the political enemies of Mexico’s president by the United States officials.
Miners Will Assist Nicholls.
Although the miner representative asserts that he has undertaken this investigation of the cases of the Mexican political refugees solely upon his own initiative, yet it is significant that both the Western Federation of Miners and the United Mine Workers at America have passed strong resolutions denouncing the tyranny in Mexico and the persecution of the Mexican political refugees. President Diaz has suppressed, time and again, the attempts of the Mexican miners to organize, and when the last attempt was made, at Cananea, Sonora, over a hundred Mexican union miners were shot down by the combined force of Green’s cowboys and Diaz’ rurales.
Western Federation Miners are well aware that miners in Mexico would immediately organize and raise their standard of living if it were not for the guns of Diaz’ rurales ready to shoot them down at the slightest pre text.
Mother Jones to the Fore.
Mother Jones, whose influence with the miners is as marvelous as it is great, has arrived in Washington for the avowed purpose of aiding the investigation demanded by Representative Nicholls. This grey-hair€d woman, who has been in the thick of every miners’ struggle for the last thirty years, has lately made a trip along the Mexican border where she received at first hand, proofs of the systematic espionage, persecution and imprisonment which constantly follows Mexican political refugees in this country.
Police spies from the Mexican capitol, in conjunction with American private detectives, follow the political enemies of President Diaz all through the United States. The power of Mexico causes the arrest of these Mexican refugees upon American soil and in many cases they are kept for months in jail without evidence of any guilt and released without trial.
The coming Mexican presidential election, with its ferment of unrest and threatened revolution, has caused Diaz to spend money without stint upon his publicity bureau. Not satisfied with openly subsidizing all the prominent newspapers in his own country he has lately been lavish in providing funds for publicity in the United States.
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Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota
-Apr 30, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1910-04-30/ed-1/seq-1/
-Apr 23, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1910-04-23/ed-1/seq-1/
The Washington Times
(Washington, District of Columbia)
-Apr 19, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1910-04-19/ed-1/seq-7/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Latest Picture, Ft Wayne Dly Ns p9, Apr 9, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/28832110/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Thursday May 19, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for April 1910, Part I:
-Found Fighting for Coal Miners, Brewery Girls, and Mexican Comrades
The Washington Herald of Apr 19, 1910
“Labor vs Socialism”…..”Mother Jones Speaks”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1910-04-19/ed-1/seq-2/
WDC Evening Star of Apr 19, 1910
“Anarchism in Congress”…..”Mother Jones Makes Address”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1910-04-19/ed-1/seq-14/
Mexican Revolutionaries
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mexican-revolutionaries/
Tag: Thomas David Nicholls
https://weneverforget.org/tag/thomas-david-nicholls/
T. D. Nicholls, U. S. House of Representatives 1907-1911
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_David_Nicholls
He was district president of District No. 1 of the United Mine Workers of America, from 1899 to 1909, resigning on account of ill health.
Tag: Cananea Massacre of 1906
https://weneverforget.org/tag/cananea-massacre-of-1906/
Tag: U. S. House Investigation of 1910 of Alleged Persecutions of Mexican Citizens by Government of Mexico
https://weneverforget.org/tag/u-s-house-investigation-of-1910-of-alleged-persecutions-of-mexican-citizens-by-government-of-mexico/
Militia Act of 1903/Dick Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1903
Hellraisers Journal, Thursday August 20, 1908
Note: this could be the border tour mentioned above.
-Mother Jones News Round-Up for July, 1908, Part I
–Closes Out Four Months’ Tour in Texas
re WFM 1903-1905 Metal Miners’ Strike in Colorado, see:
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 Florence Langdon
Great Western Publishing Company, Denver, 1908
Note: this would be the 1908 edition since it includes Part II)
(search: militia) (search: “Mother Jones”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=olgpAAAAYAAJ
re UMW 1903-1904 Coal Miners Strike in Colorado, see:
Killing for Coal
-by Thomas G. Andrews
Harvard University Press, Sep 1, 2010
(search: “coal mine workers throughout colorado”)
(search: mother jones militia 1903)
https://books.google.com/books?id=vaWiBwAAQBAJ
Emil Seidel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Seidel
Victor L. Berger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_L._Berger
From the Duluth Labor World of April 23, 1910:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1910-04-23/ed-1/seq-1/
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The Death of Mother Jones – Gene Autry
Mother Jones-The Most Dangerous Woman in America
-by Jeff Manning
Note: photos do not always match time and place
-otherwise good 10 minute overview of life of Mother Jones.