Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for July 1909, Part I: Found in New Castle, Pennsylvania

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Quote Mother Jones, Old Devil, UMWC Jan 27, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday August 8, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1909, Part I:
-Found Speaking to Tin Workers in New Castle, Pennsylvania

From the Pittsburg National Labor Tribune of July 1, 1909:

Mother Jones, Muncie IN Eve Prs p3, July 17, 1909

VOTE AT NEW CASTLE.
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[…]

Pride of New Castle lodge, composed of members of the Amalgamated [Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers] employed at the Greer tin mills, decided at a meeting Saturday night to strike against the “open shop” policy the vote was 153 for and 104 against….

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Mother Jones Speaks Out.

Many of the tin workers who had voted to strike went to hear Mother Jones speak at the Airdome Sunday night but were not as well pleased with her remarks as they thought they would be as she held out no hope for them winning their strike. Mrs. Jones stated that the men had no hope at all unless they were solidly organized and that they could accomplish nothing in the condition that they were. She did suggest that they all get into the Socialist party and by all uniting under that banner that they would win in the end. That was the gist of her remarks pertaining to the New Castle situation.-News

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[Photograph added from The Muncie Evening Press of July 17, 1909.]

From St. Louis Labor of July 3, 1909:

Pittsburg, Pa.,
June 27, 1909

Editor [Gottlieb Hoehn]
St. Louis Labor
Dear Comrade:

Have been quite busy of late. This is the first opportunity I have to write you a few lines. Am here in Pittsburg now and must take next train to New Castle. I went down to Baltimore where I met your mother and sister. Your mother looks as if she were only forty years old; is a fine and strong woman. Came down from Washington and spent afternoon with her. I guess you received my last week’s Washington letter?

Yours truly,
Mother Jones.

From the Appeal to Reason of July 3, 1909:

SW Edition, Texas, WJ Bell Sec Tyler, AtR p3, July 3, 1909—–

LONE STAR NOTES.

[…..]

The following named speakers are definitely arranged for encampment work: Geo. D. Brewer, Lena Morrow Lewis…..Cowboy Charley, Mother Jones and Dick Maple…..An effort was made to get Comrade Debs but he is not available…..

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Quote Mother Jones, Old Devil, UMWC Jan 27, 1909
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=dyhRAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA381

The National Labor Tribune
(Pittsburg, Pennsylvania)
-July 1, 1909, page 4
https://www.genealogybank.com/

St. Louis Labor
(St Louis, Missouri)
-July 3, 1909
From page 70:
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAA
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435

Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-July 3, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66981981/

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Mother Jones, Muncie IN Eve Prs p3, July 17, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/249331393/

See also:

Hellraisers Journal – Monday July 12, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for June 1909, Part I:
-Meets with President Taft on Behalf of Mexican Refugees

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday July 13, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for June 1909, Part II:
-Hard at Work for Release of the Mexican Political Refugees

Tag: Socialist Encampments
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