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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday August 10, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1901, Part II
Reportedly Visited Chicago as Friend of Servant Girls
From the Washington Evening Star of July 6, 1901:
SERVANT GIRLS TO FORM A UNION.
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“Mother” Jones of Miners’ Strike Fame
the Organizer.
CHICAGO, July 6.-The Record-Herald says:
“Mother” Jones, who did so much to encourage the coal miners in their strike in Pennsylvania a year ago, holding meetings and addressing them wherever a few could be got together, and who since has assisted the striking silk workers in New Jersey and the carpet weavers in Philadelphia to stand out for their demands, has been in Chicago the past few weeks assisting the committee of the Women’s Trade Union Label League to organize the servant girls. As a result of the work done by the committee with the aid of “Mother” Jones, several hundred servant girls have signified their intention of becoming charter members of the first servant girls’ union of Chicago, which will be formed on Thursday night.
[Photograph added.]
From The Chicago Daily News of July 11, 1901:
COMES TO HELP DOMESTICS
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“Mother” Jones Will Lend a Hand
in Forming a Union.Promoters of the Chicago Domestics’ union are surrounding their actions with an air of secrecy. “Mother” Jones, a union worker with a national reputation, who arrived in Chicago a short time ago, it is said, has rendered valuable assistance to the local organizers, and a meeting has been scheduled for tonight at the Masonic temple.
The promoters of the union, however, refuse to say just where the meeting will be held, and it is rumored it will not be at the temple, but at some secluded spot on the west side.
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Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
Quote re Mother Jones, Ipl Jr p3, Jan 21, 1901
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1901-01-21/ed-1/seq-3/
The Evening Star
(Washington, District of Columbia)
July 6, 1901
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1901-07-06/ed-1/seq-1/
The Chicago Daily News
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 11, 1901, page 2
https://www.genealogybank.com/
IMAGE
“Mother Jones in Chicago”
Argus and Patriot
(Montpelier, Vermont)
-July 10, 1901, page 4
https://www.genealogybank.com/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for July 1901,
Part I
Note re articles from Washington Evening Star of July 6, 1901
& Chicago Daily News of July 11, 1901:
-the same, or similar, articles were published in papers across the nation. However, it is doubtful that Mother took much part in the attempt to organize the “Servant Girls” of Chicago. Perhaps she stopped off in Chicago after she left St Louis about June 23rd and before she arrived in Scranton on July 1st. The photograph which states “Mother Jones in Chicago,” I first found published in June 1901 and attributed to Mother organizing “Servant Girls” in New York City. Seems the thought of Mother Jones teeming up with the servants of upper class households struck a nerve with the nation’s kept press.
Excellent articles re attempts to organize domestic workers in Chicago during July 1901, can be found here (sadly behind paywall, worth the price).
The Chicago Daily News
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 12, 1901, page 2
-July 19, 1901, page 3
-July 27, 1901, page 3
https://www.genealogybank.com/
Daily Illinois State Register
(Springfield, Illinois)
-July 30, 1901, page 4
https://www.genealogybank.com/
A servant girl’s union has at last been organized in Chicago, officers elected and a constitution, rules and regulations adopted. The name selected for the organization is “Working Women of America.” There are about three hundred members now, but the organizers promise to make it 1,000 by the time the exclusive set of Chicago returns from the summer trips to the lakes and seashore.
[Emphasis added.]
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Children of Mother Jones – Pete Duffy