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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
From Oakland Tribune of June 24, 1909:
From the Washington, D. C., Evening Star of June 16, 1909:
“Mother” Jones Presented to President.
“Mother” Jones, who became a prominent figure during the anthracite coal strike in Pennsylvania, when she supported the union miners in their fight, was introduced to the President today by T. V. Powderly of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Mother Jones is in the city in the interest of the pardon of a man named Silva, who is confined in the federal prison at Leavenworth under sentence for a violation of the neutrality laws. An application for Silva’s pardon has been pending for some time. The man is in very bad health.
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MOTHER JONES NEWS ROUND-UP FOR JUNE 1909,
PART I
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From Appeal to Reason of June 12, 1909:
MOTHER JONES AND DEBS BOTH FOR GETTING
THE WOMEN INTERESTED.
The absence of Mother Jones and Comrade Debs was regretted by all present at the conference [Conference of Socialist Woman of Kansas, Girard, June 4th]. The names of both of the much loved comrades had appeared on the program, but both were called away from Girard just a few days before the conference convened. Comrade Debs to the bedside of a dying sister and Mother Jones to work in connection with the Political Refugee league. Just before leaving, Mother said to a group of Girard women:
We must get the women. We can never have Socialism without their help. The mothers of the land are what we most need in our work.
No one can be more serious than Mother in the matter of this need of women in the Socialist movement. No one, unless it is Comrade Debs; he, too, recognizes and ever speaks of the need of arousing the womanhood of the country to this great work.
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[Photograph added.]
From Pennsylvania’s York Gazette of June 17, 1909:
MOTHER JONES MEETS PRESIDENT TAFT.
—–WASHINGTON, June 16.-“Mother” Jones, who became famous during the anthracite coal strike in Pennsylvania as a worker for the unions [for the United Mine Workers of America], was introduced to President Taft today by T. V. Powderly, of the Department of Commerce and Labor. She is in the city to ask for the pardon of a man named Silva, who is in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, under sentence for a violation of the neutrality laws. An application for his pardon has been pending for some time. The man is in very bad health. “Mother” Jones has seen considerable prison work of late and Silva enlisted her sympathy.
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From Indiana’s Muncie Sunday Star of June 20, 1909:
From the Kansas Linn County Democrat of June 24, 1909:
WOMAN’S CONFERENCE.
The first conference of the Socialist Woman’s Committee of Kansas convened at Girard, June 4, holding four sessions of two days. Seventy five woman delegates were present, holding paid up membership cards from their respective locals. They were met at the trains and taken to visit through the “Appeal,” “Temple of the Revolution” Comrade Miss Carrie Lowe, state organizer was elected chairman for Friday and comrade Mrs. E. J. Puckett for Saturday. Comrade Mrs. Lovejoy was elected secretary for the two days. Comrade Lowe gave the address of welcome instead of Comrade Kenike [Kaneko], editor of Progressive Woman, who was ill…..
Friday night, in place of Comrade Debs, who was called away, Comrade F. D. Warren, gave an able address on “What will the attitude of the church be toward Socialism?” Mother Jones, was called to Washington, D. C., Comrade Lowe took her place and gave an earnest appeal to the women to break prejudice and unite in behalf of all humanity…..
Seven comrade women delegates with three visiting men comrades held up the honor (Socialist honor) of Linn County Socialism at this grand conference, the beginning of the coming of the “Cooperative Commonwealth, The Brotherhood of Man.”
MRS. E. J. PUCKETT
R.F.D. No. 2 Box 43.
Kincaid, Kansas.———-
From Pennsylvania’s New Castle Herald of June 24, 1909:
VISIT CAUSING INTEREST.
The announcement that “Mother” Jones is to speak on the “open shop” question Sunday evening [June 27th] at the Airdome is causing much interest among mill workers, with whom the “open shop” question is a vital question. “Mother” Jones has a world-wide reputation, and no doubt a large audience will greet her. All workers are invited to attend.
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[Emphasis added throughout.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Oakland Tribune
(Oakland, California)
-June 24, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/72433665/
The Evening Star
(Washington, District of Columbia)
-June 16, 1909
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1909-06-16/ed-1/seq-1/
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
June 12, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66981944/
The Gazette
(York, Pennsylvania)
-June 17, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/552146258/
The Muncie Sunday Star
(Muncie, Indiana)
-June 20, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/251419971/
Linn County Democrat
“And Torch of Liberty”
(Mound City, Kansas)
-June 24, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/422348314/
New Castle Herald
(New Castle, Pennsylvania)
-June 24, 1909
https://www.newspapers.com/image/140359960/
IMAGE
Conference of Socialist Women of KS, Girard June, Prg Wmn p9, July 1909
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA25
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 13, 1909
Mother Jones News Round-Up for May 1909:
-Found in Peoria, Illinois & Arriving in Girard, Kansas, at End of May
Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_strike_of_1902
Terence V. Powderly
http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/powderly.cfm
In 1906, President Roosevelt reinstated Powderly:
as Special Immigration Inspector. This position made Powderly a special representative of the Department of Commerce and Labor with the charge to study the causes of emigration from Europe to America.
Tag: Mexican Revolutionaries
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mexican-revolutionaries/
The Progressive Woman
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 1909-to May 1911
https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ
July 1909-Vol. III, No. XXVI
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA17
“Conference of Socialist Women in Girard”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA25
Aug 1909-Vol. III, No. XXVII
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA33
Letter from Mrs. E. J. Puckett:
Alone with my husband this Sun day afternoon, I have been reading aloud to him the instructive and interesting articles in the July number of the P. W. The picture and report of the convention at Girard are fine. Your article, “Woman Suffrage and Socialism,” is good. We had no idea women had tried so hard for economic liberty at so early a date. Too bad they let a few seeming concessions lull them to rest. I hope Socialism will never lull until it gets all.—Mrs. E. J. Puckett, Kansas.
Tag: Political Refugee Defense League
https://weneverforget.org/tag/political-refugee-defense-league/
Re Editor Kaneko:
The Progressive Woman-July 1909
Managing Editor-Kiichi Kaneko
Editor-Josephine C. Kaneko
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA24
Josephine Conger Kaneko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Conger-Kaneko
The Kaneko editor too ill to attend the Girard Conference was most likely Kiichi Kaneko. He died in Oct 1909 in Japan, “where he had gone to search for health…”
“Kiichi Kaneko, Citizen of the World”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA117
“Trial and Conviction of Fred D. Warren”
-by Eugene V. Debs
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1909/0522-debs-warrensummary.pdf
Caroline Lowe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Lowe
For more on the Open Shop, see:
The Open Shop
-by Clarence S. Darrow
Chicago, CH Kerr, 1909
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002917181
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Bread and Roses-Bronwen Lewis