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Hellraisers Journal – Friday December 15, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for November 1911, Part I
Found Involved in Conflict Between Madero and Magón
From the Appeal to Reason of November 4, 1911:
Mexico.-The history of the Mexican revolution is too well known to need discussion here. Following the successful overthrow of Diaz there have appeared two tendencies of the working class movement in our sister republic. One of these, lead by [Ricardo Flores] Magon, is semi-anarchistic, while the other is socialistic. The Socialists have established a labor paper at the city of Mexico and both the Western Federation of Miners and the United Mine Workers have gone into the republic to organize the miners. Mother Jones is now there for that purpose, as is also Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners. Madero has promised his protection. It is too early to make predictions as to the result.
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[Photograph and emphasis added.]
From Regeneración of November 4, 1911
-Page 4, English Section:
…..Our readers must pardon us for piling up, week after week, the evidence of Madero’s complete subjection to the money power, and we ourselves feel that every mind open to conviction must have become persuaded long ago of the truthfulness of the charges we have been making for the last eight months. Unfortunately such women as “Mother Jones” apparently can be still won over by a handshake from Wall Street’s president-elect, and communications from men who are intriguing day and night for Madero are still played up in Socialist publications. For the most part, however, the Socialist press has dropped the Mexican revolution like a hot potato, it will have to take it up again, and, it is to be hoped, from an amended standpoint…..
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[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones Save Our Mexican Comrades, AtR p3, Feb 20, 1909
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/090220-appealtoreason-w690.pdf
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66981674
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Nov 4, 1911, page 4
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/111104-appealtoreason-w831.pdf
Regeneración
(Los Angeles, California)
-Nov 4, 1911, page 4
http://archivomagon.net/wp-content/uploads/e4n62.pdf
IMAGE
Mother Jones crpd ed, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1910-06-18/ed-1/seq-5/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for October 1911
Part I: Found in L. A. at McNamara Trial
Part II: Found Writing to Appeal to Reason from Mexico City, Gains Right to Organize
Tag: Mexican Revolutionaries
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mexican-revolutionaries/
Tag: Francisco Madero
https://weneverforget.org/tag/francisco-madero/
Tag: Ricardo Flores Magón
https://weneverforget.org/tag/ricardo-flores-magon/
Tag: Regeneracion
https://weneverforget.org/tag/regeneracion/
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAAJ
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435
-pages 100 (150 of 416):
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435/viewer#page/150/mode/2up
From Mother Jones to Ricardo Flores Magón:
Denver, Colo. ,
Nov. 4, 1911.Mr. Flores Magon,
914 Boston St.,
Los Angeles, Calif.Dear Sir:
In looking over the last two issues of your paper [Regeneración] I find some misstatements as to my visit to you and colleagues. I cannot conceive how you could so misrepresent the object of my visit. First you state “Not for sale”, I believe that was the heading. I had nothing to buy you with or for. You stated, I had just come from President-Elect Madero with a proposition to you which you would not accept. It was not true. Mr. Madero never mentioned your name to me or any one else who was with me, whether he did not consider it worth mentioning or not I am not prepared to state. The Vice-President of the United Mine Workers, Mr. Frank Hays, Mr. Joe Cannon, representing the Metal Miners [WFM], accompanied me on my visit to President Madero. We found President Madero a gentleman in every sense of the word, a man with the most remarkable grasp of the economic struggle and the underlying causes. We discussed the matter after we left Mr. Madero and said to each other how remark- ably well posted he was. It is not often that we find a man in his position with so deep and clear a conception of the wrongs of the people and the causes that that produce them. The only person who mentioned your name while I was in Mexico was your own brother [Jesús Flores Magón], a gentleman in every sense of the world. He expressed his deep appreciation for the work done for you and your associates during the closing years of ex-President Diaz resign. He said “I will remember you through all the years of my life for saving the lives of my brothers.
You say I knew nothing but what Villarreal told me, again your statement is false. I did not have the pleasure of meeting Villarreal while I was in Mexico, which I much regretted. You say “that I knew nothing of Mexico.” I must have known something of the conditions in Mexico under which the people suffered or I could not go before the President of the United States nor could I have brought the matter up before Congress. You should have told me all this before I went to Washington with your case and not placed me in such an embarrassing position before the President of the Nation and Congress.
Then again you attack the American Federation of Labor. You should have refused the $4,000 that they donated if they are what you represent them to be. You should have notified me not to accept a dollar from them or their colleagues to defend you. Many of those braves after voting me a hundred dollars, would say to me: “We have left our treasury in debt Mother, but go and save the lives of those poor fellows.” The immigration commissioner is a member of the American Federation of Labor. When your colleagues were arrested under the immigration laws and held for extradition, I went to San Antonio and held five meetings for your people there. I investigated the matter and immediately wrote to the Immigration Commissioner at Washington, and stated the cases to him. The United States Marshall was present at all the meetings. The victims were released.
I hope Mr. Magon, that this explanation will be satisfactory to you and convince you that the American Federation of Labor after paying all the bills, are not such a criminal combination as you might suppose them to be. I hope this convinces you that my mission to Los Angeles was not at all in keeping with the statement in your paper. Neither my colleagues or myself shall ever again insult you by taking any money from the American Federation of Labor to defend you if you should again get into the clutches of the law.
I am, Sir
Most respectfully yours
Mother Jones[Emphasis added.]
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