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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday November 13, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for October 1910, Part II:
–Found in Akron, Ohio, Speaking on Socialism at Central Labor Union Hall
From the Akron Beacon Journal of October 14, 1910:
“MOTHER JONES” A SPEAKER HERE
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Famous Character Addresses
Socialists and Others.
“Mother Jones,” well known among the laboring people as a speaker of ability and a woman who understands the conditions of the laboring man, spoke at the Central Labor Union hall in the Walsh block for an hour and a half Thursday evening, although she had declared she was here for a rest. Her talk was mostly devoted to socialism, and she told of reforms along the line that she considered would benefit the condition of the masses. “Mother” Jones has been called the “Stormy Petrel of the Industrial Revolution.”
She has also been called the “Angel of the Coal Miners,” and has had many interesting experiences during her life of 76 years, and the fire of her eloquence seems to burn as brightly as ever. At one time she addressed a crowd of striking miners in West Virginia in defiance of the police force and state militia.
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[Photograph added.]
From Canton’s Sunday Repository of October 16, 1910:
‘MOTHER’ JONES TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY
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Will Address Socialist Gatherings in
Afternoon and Evening.“Mother” Jones, called the “Stormy Petrel of the Industrial Revolution,” the “Angel of the Miners,” and other appellations, who is 76 years old, and who has spoken in behalf of organized labor throughout the country, will arrive here Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and will speak at the meeting of Socialists which will be called at 2:30 o’clock.
Miss Janet Fenimore, of Anderson, Ind., will also address the meeting, as will Frank Prevey, of Akron, who will take as his subject “The Dead Line.”
In the evening all three speakers will be heard again at the Socialist headquarters in Red Men’s hall.
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From West Virginia’s Clarksburg Daily Telegram of October 17, 1910:
Note: The Democrats have chosen, as their candidate for Congress, John W. Davis, who, in 1902, insisted that Judge John J. Jackson should jail Mother Jones.
Will Not Apologize.
Candidate Davis says he has no apology to make in connection with his past attitude toward labor, and hence labor has the right to draw the conclusion that he has no regrets over the fact that he aided in sending Thomas Haggerty [of United Mine Workers of America] and about a score of other laboring men to jail, nor has he any regrets over another fact that he insisted that “Mother” Jones should be put behind prison bars, using these words on that occasion in his reference to the aged woman:
When the devil is sick
The devil a monk would be,
But when the devil is well
A devil of a monk is he.Election day will disclose the fact that even an apology would have done him no good.
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The Democratic nominee for congress has not yet told why he helped to send a number of coal miners to jail and tried is best to get “Mother” Jones behind prison bars. The true test of his attitude toward the laboring man was shown in those acts. He will persuade no one that he has been converted, however many questions propounded to him by labor he may answer in the affirmative.
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John W. Davis pleaded with Judge John J. Jackson to send “Mother” Jones to jail and if it had not been for the judge’s leniency. Davis would have had his wish gratified. “Mother” Jones represented organized labor, and now Davis is being represented as a friend of labor. His acts and the claims advanced in his behalf now can not be reconciled.
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From the Akron Beacon Journal of October 21, 1910:
MEETING ENDS IN CONFUSION
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Socialist Talk by Mother Jones
Starts Things at Labor Hall.
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Organizer Flood Charged an Attempt
to Break Up Meeting.
———A clash between the socialistic element and the strictly union labor advocates came near breaking up the labor mass meeting in Central Labor Union hall Thursday night on account of a speech by Mother Jones, famous Socialist and organizer among coal miners.
National Organizer E. T. Flood, who addressed the meeting for the American Federation of Labor, took exceptions to Mother Jones’ speech in which she introduced Socialism and politics in a very plain and direct manner. Flood charged that there had been an organized and premeditated movement by the Socialists to break up the meeting, which, was denied by the Socialists themselves.
While Mother Jones upheld unionism and organization, she did not agree with the spirit of the meeting as the organizers had discussed the questions, and Flood following her, took issue with her. Mrs. F. N. Prevey, another Socialist, attempted to speak also, but was denied the right by the president of the meeting, who ruled that Flood had the floor. Just as soon as Flood finished his talk, the meeting was adjourned.
Immediately after the meeting Webb made his charge in the face of a number of Socialists that they had planned the night before to break up Thursday night’s meeting, which they denied. Much confusion prevailed before and after adjournment. Dr. W. H. Miller was one of the Socialist, charged by Flood with trying to defeat the ends of the meeting, which he denied.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, The Cincinnati Post-p9, Sept 26, 1910
https://www.genealogybank.com/
Akron Beacon Journal
(Akron, Ohio)
-Oct 14, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/227966966/
-Oct 21, 1910
https://www.newspapers.com/image/227968382
The Sunday Repository
(Canton, Ohio)
-Oct 16, 1910, page 23
https://www.genealogybank.com/
The Daily Telegram
(Clarksburg, West Virginia)
-Oct 17, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059715/1910-10-17/ed-1/seq-4/
IMAGE
Mother Jones crpd, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1910-06-18/ed-1/seq-5/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Saturday November 12, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for October 1910, Part I:
-Found in Cleveland, Stopping at Home of Editor Max Hayes
-re Mother’s Speech in Canton on Sunday October 16, 1910, see:
Appeal to Reason, p2 Nov 12, 1910
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/101112-appealtoreason-w780.pdf
-for more on John W. Davis v Mother Jones in 1902, see:
Clarksburg, WV, Daily Telegram
-of Oct 11, 1910, page 4
“Davis’s Labor Record”
Note: lists names of those sent to jail with Mother Jones in 1902.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059715/1910-10-11/ed-1/seq-4/
The Nation of Oct 1, 1924
“Who Is John W. Davis”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WeWuhCpFGQEC&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA327
John W. Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Davis
Hellraisers Journal, Friday October 11, 1907
Old Injunction Judge, John J. Jackson, Passed Away on Labor Day
Remembering Judge John Jay Jackson Who Famously Tangled with Mother Jones in 1902
-re “Mrs. F. N. Prevey”
= Marguerite Prevey, Akron Socialist, wife of Frank Prevey, see:
American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941
-by Daniel Nelson
Princeton University Press, Jul 14, 2014
(search: “she and her husband frank”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=LAMABAAAQBAJ
for more on Frank N. Prevey, see
-search of Akron Beacon Journal:
(“frank n prevey” socialist)
https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22frank+n+prevey%22+socialist&t=4267&sort=facet_year_month_day+asc%2C+score+desc
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