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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 27, 1921
Mother Jones News Round-Up for January 1921, Part I:
–Found Traveling from West Virginia to Mexico City with Fred Mooney
From The Sacramento Bee of January 4, 1921:
LEAVES FOR MEXICO.
CHARLESTON (W. Va.), January 4.-Fred Mooney, Secretary of District No. 17, United Mine workers of America, left to-day for Mexico City to attend the Pan-American Labor Conference next week. Mooney was accompanied by “Mother Jones.”
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[Photograph added.]
From the Hazleton Plain Speaker of January 7, 1921:
“Mother” Jones Going to Mexico.
“Mother” Jones, the well known organizer of the United Mine Workers who took a prominent part in the strikes of 1900 and 1902 in the Hazleton district, has left Charleston, West Va., to attend the Pan-American labor congress opening in Mexico City, Mexico, next week.
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From the Hazleton Plain Speaker of January 8, 1921:
‘MOTHER’ JONES IS 87 YEARS OF AGE
———-Mother Jones that “stormy petrel” of the labor world who spent many months here during the big anthracite strikes of the early nineteen hundreds, is now 87 years old but is active still.
She has been in jail nearly as many times as a Russian Revolutionist,under the Czar. The powers that be have now stopped putting her in jail. In fact, she seems now to have a sort of charmed life.
She goes and comes when and where she will, when others would be arrested or shot down.
She has the entry in all government offices. She can see the Secretary of War or the Attorney General when others cool their heels in the waiting room. And when she sees these high officials they hear something from her which is pretty nearly undiluted fact. It is undiluted at least by any complimentary phrases or flattering introduction.
She tells officials what she thinks of them and she tells them what the conditions are where the labor war is bitterest.
There is reason to believe that she has saved the lives of some of the higher-ups. She knows the extremists in this bitter warfare and has their confidence. When she tells them that a bomb under the chair of some high government person will do their cause more harm than good they bury the bomb in the back yard.
Before she gets real old Mother Jones says she intends to write her reminiscences. If she does it will be a good story. She has seen real life and had real adventure. This seems to have kept her young, as the 87 years have left no more trace than are usual at 60 years.
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From The Pittsburg Press of January 9, 1921:
“MOTHER” JONES WILL BE
OBREGON’S GUEST.
—–Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 8.-Treasuring an invitation to be the guest of President Alvaro Obregon, of Mexico, during her stay in Mexico City, “Mother” Jones left here accompanied by Fred Mooney, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of this district, to attend the Pan-American labor conference. She has been in West Virginia working among the miners for some time.
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Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, IN DlyT Ipls p1, July 15, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047611/1920-07-15/ed-1/seq-1/
The Sacramento Bee
(Sacramento, California)
-Jan 4, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/616769218/
The Plain Speaker
(Hazleton, Pennsylvania)
-Jan 7, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/500362270/
-Jan 8, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/500362339/
The Pittsburg Press
(Pittsburg, Pennsylvania)
-Jan 9, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/145650930/
IMAGES
Mother Jones, ed WDC Tx p2, Aug 29, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1920-08-29/ed-1/seq-2/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Saturday February 26, 1921
Mother Jones News Round-Up for December 1920:
–Found in Washington, D. C., Pleading for Release of Debs
Scroll down to “see also” section:
Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday January 11, 1921
Mother Jones Travels to Mexico with Fred Mooney, Will Attend Pan-American Labor Conference
Tag: Pan-American Federation of Labor Congress of 1921
https://weneverforget.org/tag/pan-american-federation-of-labor-congress-of-1921/
Coal Strike of 1902 (also touches on strikes of 1899 and 1900)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_strike_of_1902
Álvaro Obregón
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Obreg%C3%B3n
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