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Hellraisers Journal – Friday August 9, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1901, Part I
Found at Scranton and Hazleton, Pennsylvania
FromThe Scranton Times of July 1, 1901:
“MOTHER” JONES IN TOWN.
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Mother Mary Jones, one of the national organizers of the United Mine Workers of America, is again in the city. She arrived this morning from St. Louis. She intends to remain here only a few days.
This is the first visit of “Mother” Jones to this city since the settlement of the silk mill strike, which was brought about through her untiring efforts. She appears to be in the very best of health.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Hazleton Plain Speaker of July 3, 1901:
Celebration at Nuremburg.
One of the biggest Fourth of July celebrations in the region will be held at Nuremburg, where the United Mine Workers, who are at the head of the affair, have left nothing undone to make it an occasion long to be remembered by the citizens of the town. National Secretary Wilson, of the United Mine Workers, and “Mother” Jones, the lady organizer who is known to every miner in the anthracite coal fields, will be the speakers. Large delegations of Mine Workers from this city and the surrounding towns will attend.
“Mother” Jones in Town.
“Mother” Jones, who will be among the speakers at the Nuremburg demonstration tomorrow arrived in town today.
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The Hazleton Plain Speaker of July 6, 1901:
“Mother” Jones, at all times ready to address a body of organized labor, visited the Yorktown Local last night and delivered an interesting address. She was enthusiastically received.
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“Mother” Jones Leaves.
“Mother” Jones left town today for Philadelphia, where she will remain a few days previous to her departure for West Virginia.
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From The Philadelphia Inquirer of July 7, 1901:
Mother Jones passed through Philadelphia yesterday en route for the scene of the coal strike at Thatcher, W. Va. Early in June she left the anthracite region for St. Louis to deliver an address at the anniversary of the street car strike, and thence proceeded to Indianapolis. On the Fourth of July she took President Mitchell’s place in addressing the miners at Nuremburg, in the Hazleton district. During her stay in St. Louis she organized the clay workers. She will remain in West Virginia until fall.
Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, Contented Slave, St Louis Pst Dsp p3, June 17, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/138851726/
The Scranton Times
(Scranton, Pennsylvania)
-July 1, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/534466619/
The Plain Speaker
(Hazleton, Pennsylvania)
-July 3, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/501634562/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/501634589/
-July 6, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/96623952/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/501634654/
The Philadelphia Inquirer
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
-July 7, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/168409503/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for June 1901,
Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Tag: Pennsylvania Silk Mill Workers Strikes of 1901
https://weneverforget.org/tag/pennsylvania-silk-mill-workers-strikes-of-1901/
William B. Wilson
– Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America
https://blossburg.org/town-info/william-b-wilson-history/william-b-wilson-secretary-treasurer-of-the-united-mine-workers-of-america/
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The Spirit of Mother Jones – Andy Irvine