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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 19, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for January 1911, Part I:
–Found in Pennsylvania and at Columbus, Ohio, for Miners’ Convention
From the Uniontown Morning Herald of January 9, 1911:
Mother Jones Speaks in Brownsville, Pennsylvania
BROWNSVIILE, Jan. 8.-Mother Jones, the noted labor advocate, lectured in the Grand opera house, Sunday afternoon, to an audience of about 300. She advanced a strong plea in behalf of the striking miners of Westmoreland county. Her description of the starving miners, encamped upon the mountain sides, brought substantial results in a financial way, at the close of her address Mother Jones states that the coke regions of Fayette county will be the next field for organization.
[Photograph added.]
From Pennsylvania’s Latrobe Bulletin of January 13, 1911:
“Mother Jones” Lambasted Everybody
Nearly 2,000 persons crowded the Greensburg rink, last evening, to hear “Mother Jones,” the 77-year-old woman who has been devoting her life for years past, to the mothering of “strikes.” With her whitened hair and her age-lined countenance she made an impressive appearance. She lambasted everything right heartily, from the judges to the state constabulary. She said that she had a contract with God to live for 77 more years so as to keep on fighting. Other speakers at the meeting were Congressman-elect Curtis H. Gregg, Rev. D. L. Shultz, Van Bitner and others.
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From the Columbus Evening Dispatch of January 21, 1911:
IDOL OF MINE WORKERS.
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Mother Jones Comes to Address “Her Boys”
On Labor Questions.
—–Mother Jones, the idol of all the Mine Workers of America, now in session in Columbus, arrived Friday afternoon, and is stopping at the Neil House. Mother Jones is as much a factor in the conventions of the miners as in the president himself. She never misses a meeting, and always is received with cheers and honor. Her voice is always raised in protest against oppression of the workingmen, and wherever they are in trouble, she will be found.
She went to Memorial hall, Saturday morning, and while waiting to speak to the miners, gave a message to The Dispatch. When asked where her home was, she said:
MOTHER JONES’HOME.
My home is wherever the workingmen are fighting the capitalist robbers. Congressman Dalzell asked me that question, and that was my answer. Champ Clark looked astonished, and Dalzell was silenced.
I do not need a home except where workingmen and women are oppressed. Capital and labor are getting farther apart every year, and a crisis is rapidly approaching. Machinery is taking the place of labor, and we must face that crisis.
What will be the result of this, Mother Jones did not say except in a general way, but it is her opinion that capital is trying to oppress labor into practical slavery.
NO PICTURES FOR PAPERS.
Mother Jones objects to having her picture in the papers. she said:
I never give a picture to a paper. I hate it. When club women and others who want notoriety play for publicity, they have their pictures put in the papers. That is not my plan. I want to do my work quietly, and wherever working people need me.
MOTHER JONES’ TALK DELAYED.
It was the intention of the Mine Workers to have an address from Mother Jones at 9 o’clock Saturday morning, but as she was too late for that hour, business proceeded, and the argument relative to the seating of delegates from central Pennsylvania, and making a test of the power of President Lewis in the matter.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, Hell, Greensburg PA Jan 14, AtR p2, Jan 28, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/110128-appealtoreason-w791.pdf
The Morning Herald
(Uniontown, Pennsylvania)
-Jan 9, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/87122172/
Latrobe Bulletin
(Latrobe,Pennsylvania)
-January 13, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/450677742
Columbus Evening Dispatch
(Columbus, Ohio)
-Jan 21, 1911, page 2
https://www.genealogybank.com/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, ed Cameron Co PA Prs p1, Apr 7, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83032040/1910-04-07/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Sunday January 15, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for December 1910
Praised by Max Hayes and Eugene Debs for Work with Striking Miners and Their Families in Pennsylvania
Tag: Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910–11
https://weneverforget.org/tag/westmoreland-county-coal-strike-of-1910-11/
Hellraisers Journal – Friday December 23, 1910
Greensburg, Pennsylvania – Strikers’ Families Face Winter in Frozen Tent Colony
From The Labor Argus of December 15, 1910:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059855/1910-12-15/ed-1/seq-1/
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Westmoreland Miner’s Strike
Lyrics by James Coles
Note: tune was not given for Coles’ Song/Poem
–Auld Lang Syne seems to work: