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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday September 17, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for August 1910, Part I:
-Found in Hazleton Coal District Addressing Miners’ Meetings
From the Pittston Gazette of August 3, 1910:
“Mother Jones.”
“Mother Jones,” the miners’ friend, is spending some time in the Hazleton district, recuperating from a severe illness, and nearly every evening addresses a meeting of mine workers.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Pottsville Republican of August 4, 1910:
Socialists to Observe Labor Day.
At a meeting of the Socialists of Pottsville held last evening in the barber shop of C. F. Foley arrangements were made to hold a big celebration here on Labor Day. Fred Warren, editor of the Appeal to Reason, will be the speaker of the occasion. Mother Jones will also be in attendance. The meeting will be held at Schuettler’s grove at the western end of Pottsville. Dancing will be one of the attractions of the day. Mr. Foley announced that his declination to run for lieutenant governor had been favorably acted. upon.
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From the Shenandoah Evening Herald of August 12, 1910:
Will Go to Dubois Next.
“Mother” Jones the United Mine Workers organizer, who is stopping at Hazleton with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gildea, will go from Hazleton to Dubois. She expects to stay at Hazleton for several weeks yet, part of which time she will spend in the Panther Creek sub-district.
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From the Official Proceedings of the Convention of the
Western Federation of Miners, Held at Denver, July 18 to Aug 2, 1910:
The Financial Report of Secretary-Treasurer Ernest Mills for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1910, includes the Mexican Defense Fund which shows that Mother Jones contributed $150.00 on July 22, 1909, and $200.00 on January 29, 1910.
From the Appeal to Reason of August 13, 1910:
Refugees Released–Their Persecution.
[-by John Kenneth Turner.]
Story of the Release.By Telegraph to Appeal to Reason.
Los Angles, August 5.-Magon, Villarreal and Rivera, the refugee leaders of the Mexican Liberal party, are free at last, free and resting with friends in this city preparatory to reassembling their forces and launching again upon their campaign against the “Perpetual President” Diaz.
In order to meet them as they came out of prison, to be present if they were rearrested, so that through the Appeal to Reason the story of the latest crime against these men might be given to the world, I undertook the journey into that human bake oven, Arizona. I found the sweltering town of Florence, and that walled institution wherein some five hundred unfortunates pant and fight flies throughout the burning summer days and nights, bunked like sardines four or more in a cell. The trip nearly finished me. What long drawn agony it must have been to these persecuted men!
When Wednesday morning the three refugees stepped out through the iron gates into the open air, they looked about them for a man with a star and handcuffs, and could hardly believe their eyes when they saw none.
Arriving down town, they looked again for such a man, and at the station they looked for him again. As the train pulled into Phoenix Magon leaned back, resigning himself as it were, to the inevitable. Villarreal bent toward me and said: “He can’t believe that we are to be free, he cannot believe it. I could not believe it myself.”
But the man with the star and the handcuffs did not appear, nor has he yet appeared. As we disembarked at Los Angeles we heard a cheer, then the three Liberals were surrounded by scores of men and women. Americans and Mexicans, who shook their hands, patted them on-the back, and hugged them…..
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[Newsclip added.]
From the Mount Carmel Item of August 15, 1910:
MOTHER JONES TO VISIT PANTHER CREEK VALLEY
——-Mother Jones, the United Mine Workers’ organizer, who it will be remembered led the McAdoo marchers to the Panther Creek Valley in 1900, will visit the Panther Creek Valley during the next week or two to do missionary work for the organization. She has been spending several weeks in Hazleton the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gildea, formerly of Coal Dale, and after her visit to this section will leave for Dubois where she will spend several weeks before leaving for the West.
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From the Wilkes-Barre Evening News of August 22, 1910:
MOTHER JONES COMING
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Will Attend C. L. U. Picnic at Sans Souci on Labor Day.
——-Mother Jones of Hazleton, who has won fame by the interest she takes in working men, especially miners, has consented to deliver an address at the Labor Day picnic of the Central Labor Union in Sans Souci Park. Mother Jones will be one of several good speakers who will attend the picnic.
Prizes to be awarded in different events at the picnic have been arranged for by the committee. One of the prizes has been offered by John D. Shea, proprietor of Hotel Hart. It is a loving cup and will be awarded the winner of the rock drilling contest. There will be boys’ and girls’ races, baseball contests and other events.The picnic committee will meet again next Sunday at 10:30 a. m. to make final arrangements for the picnic.
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Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, Brutal Ruling Class, Cnc Pst p7, May 31, 1910
https://www.genealogybank.com/
Pittston Gazette
(Pittston, Pennsylvania)
-Aug 3, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/52097595/
Pottsville Republican
(Pottsville, Pennsylvania)
-Aug 4, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/449131279/
Evening Herald
(Shenandoah, Pennsylvania)
-Aug 12, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/448062045/
Western Federation of Miners
Conventions of 1909, 1910, 1911
https://books.google.com/books?id=5M9JAQAAMAA
Official Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Convention
Western Federation of Miners Held at Denver, Colorado
July 18 to Aug 2, 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5M9JAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA1
Financial Report of Secretary-Treasurer Ernest Mills
of Western Federation of Miners for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5M9JAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA34
Mexican Defense Fund
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5M9JAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA115
Note also:
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5M9JAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA121
[From Expenditures for July 1909:]
July 19, “Mother” Jones in payment of loan made W. F. M. during the Cripple Creek strike…..500.00
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Aug 13, 1910
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/100813-appealtoreason-w767.pdf
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66982834/
Mount Carmel Item
(Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania)
-Aug 15, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/76701957/
The Evening News
(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
-Aug 22, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/174970942/
IMAGES
Mother Jones, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910
https://www.genealogybank.com/
Mex Rev Tribute to Mother Jones, AtR p4, July 23, 1910
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/100723-appealtoreason-w764.pdf
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Saturday August 13, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1910, Part I:
-Found with Miners of Hazleton and Coleraine, Pennsylvania
Hellraisers Journal – Sunday August 14, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1910, Part II:
-Found Praised for Her Work on Behalf of Mexican Comrades
Hellraisers Journal – Monday August 15, 1910
Mexican Political Refugees Released from Prison; Villarreal, Magón & Rivera Arrive in Los Angeles
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Union Miner – Tom Breiding