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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday November 18, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for September 1911
Telegram from Shamokin, Pennsylania, Requests Her Assistance
From the Altoona Morning Tribune of September 11, 1911:
Coaldale reports a great Labor Day Celebration. “Mother Jones,” the famous advocate of union labor, was chief speaker. There was a parade from Coaldale to Defiance and countermarch to the grove.
From the Charleston Labor Argus of September 21, 1911:
Congressman John W. Davis, of the first district, is a great friend of those who toil. He never spends any time in securing legislation for their benefit, but he loves them just the same. Where John does them priceless service is at the Board of Trade banquets. One might think that his tongue efforts at these gatherings would be strictly in the interest of his sleek and well-fed hearers. But not so. All who are familiar with his record in the “mother” Jones case, and know how he hates (?) trusts, are well aware that it would have been folly for the working class to have voted for any other candidate. He should by all means be elected as a Congressman-at-large. His noble and self sacrificing efforts in the interest of the exploited should not be limited to the narrow confines of one district.
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Note: The following article should make clear to our readers the reason for the sarcastic tone of The Labor Argus as regards the “noble and self sacrificing efforts” of John W. Davis.
From West Virginia’s Clarksburg Daily Telegram of October 17, 1910:
Note: In 1910 Democrats chose, as their candidate for Congress, John W. Davis, who, in 1902, had insisted that Judge John J. Jackson must 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 his 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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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, The Cincinnati Post-p9, Sept 26, 1910
https://www.genealogybank.com/
Catholic University of America, Digital Collections
-Mary Harris “Mother” Jones Collection
Telegram from Shamokin PA to Mother Jones in care of United Mine Workers,
-Sent Sept 1, 1911
https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/achc-mother-jones%3A289
Morning Tribune
(Altoona, Pennsylvania)
-Sept 11, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/56214335/
The Labor Argus
(Charleston, West Virginia)
-Sept 21, 1911
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059855/1911-09-21/ed-1/seq-4/
The Daily Telegram
(Clarksburg, West Virginia)
-Oct 17, 1910
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059715/1910-10-17/ed-1/seq-4/
See also:
-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
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for August 1911, Part I:
Found Defended at Convention of Western Federation of Miners
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for August 1911, Part II:
Found Visiting Colorado Miners Jailed by Injunction Judge Whitford
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Am A Union Woman – Deborah Holland
Lyrics by Aunt Molly Jackson