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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday August 22, 1918
Mother Jones News for July 1918, Part I: Found in West Virginia
From the Fairmont West Virginian of July 5, 1918:
MINERS PROVE PATRIOTISM BY WORKING TODAY
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Not a Mine in the Region Out of Operation
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The car supply for the mines along the Monongahela railroad tomorrow will be one hundred per cent.
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As a proof that the patriotism of the miners in the Fairmont district is of the 100 per cent. quality every mining property so far as in known is in operation today with full forces in most instances…
This is a remarkable showing for the day following the Independent day holiday. In former years the men used to make a several days’ affair out of the Fourth of July but this year the Fuel administration made a direct to them to go right back to work so that the much needed coal would keep coming in a steady stream and the way they have responded will be gratifying to all interested in keeping p the production records.
Miners’ Picnics.
Fully fifteen hundred people, mostly miners and their families, gathered at Traction park yesterday afternoon for the big all day picnic held there.
The program began shortly after 10 o’clock in the morning with addresses by William M. Rogers, president of the State Federation of Labor, and James Dianna, the latter of Bomer, W. Va. and one of the most prominent labor organizers in the state. He addressed the miners assembled at the park yesterday morning in the Italian language. In the afternoon an address as delivered by Frank Keeney, who is in charge of the United Mine Workers for the seventeenth district.
A feature of the morning program was the monster parade held at Monongah, the largest in the history of the town. Led by the Polish band, upwards of a thousand miners from the various locals in the county, participated.
The turn out of Harrison county miners at Norwood park was also large. Mother Jones spoke there…
[Photograph added.]
From The Scranton Republican of July 8, 1918:
Fowler Makes Trip-Accompanied by Mother Jones, Hon. David Fowler, a national organizer of the United Mines Workers, has just returned from a successful trip through the West Virginia coal fields. They have succeeded in organizing 100 locals and eliminating the gunmen. Next week Mr. Fowler will go into Maryland where he will work in the M. & K. field.
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From the Fairmont West Virginian of July 9, 1918:
TWO UNION MINERS’ MEETINGS TONIGHT
—–Practically all of the miners of thick vein of coal in this region have been organized, and now the representatives of the United Mine Workers in this section are holding meetings for the purpose of giving further assistance to the various organizations.
Last night a meeting of miners was held at Worthington. Mother Jones and B. A. Scott, the latter a mine worker official, were the principal speakers.
Tonight meeting will be held at Mt. Clair and Watson. At Watson the speakers will be Mother Jones and Mr. Ballentyne. Joe Angelo and B. A. Scott will journey to Mt. Clair to attend the meeting of the miners in that section. There are now organizations at both Watson and Mt. Claire.
No meetings have been arranged as yet for tomorrow night.
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From West Virginia’s Shepherdstown Register of July 11, 1918:
PAYS WATSON TRIBUTE.
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Mother Jones Says Fairmont Man Has
Done Fine Thing for the People.
—–Clarksburg, W. Va., July 6.-In the course of a patriotic fourth of July meeting in this city Mother Jones, the labor leader, paid high tribute to Colonel C. W. Watson, candidate for the U. S. Senate. In discussing the recent unionization of the Fairmont mining region, Mother Jones said that the credit for this is due to Colonel Watson.
In the past Mother Jones has been a severe critic of Colonel Watson, and for that reason her tribute to him was all the more interesting.
Mother Jones has been making her home at Fairmont since the recent union activity began.
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From the Fairmont West Virginian of July 11, 1918:
“Mother” Jones left Fairmont Wednesday night for Washington.
Dave Fowler has returned to Fairmont after a breif stay at his home in Scranton, Pa. He is one of the U. M. W. organizers now in northern West Virginia.
From the United Mine Workers Journal of July 4, 1918:
MOTHER JONES ENDS STRIKE
Morgantown, W. Va.—Mother Jones has reversed her role. Reports from the Serepta coal mines said that she ended a strike there by urging the men to return to work and help the government.
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Note: Emphasis added to all articles: Mother Jones.
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SOURCES
The West Virginian
(Fairmont, West Virginia)
-July 5, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1918-07-05/ed-1/seq-1/
-July 9, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1918-07-09/ed-1/seq-1/
-July 11, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1918-07-11/ed-1/seq-4/
The Scranton Republican
(Scranton, Pennsylvania)
-July 8, 1918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/49323019/
The Shepherdstown Register
(Shepherdstown, West Virginia)
-July 11, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026824/1918-07-11/ed-1/seq-2/
The United Mine Workers Journal, Volume 29
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-May 9 to Dec 15, 1918
Executive Board of the United Mine Workers of America,
https://books.google.com/books?id=iwxOAAAAYAAJ
UMWJ – Vol. XXIX No. 9
-July 4, 1918
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=iwxOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PT264
Page 16: “Mother Jones Ends Strike”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=iwxOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PT279
IMAGE
Quote Mother Jones, Flag Organize, Evle IN Prs, Mar 29, 1918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/137894411/
Mother Jones, Ft Wy Jr Gz p3, Dec 17, 1917
https://www.newspapers.com/image/29086040/
See also:
Mother Jones
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
-by Elliott J. Gorn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jun 2, 2015
(search altogether: “mother jones” “west virginia” 1917 1918)
https://books.google.com/books?id=9gRpCAAAQBAJ
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Another verse:
She’ll be wearing red pajamas when she comes
She’ll be wearing red pajamas when she comes
She’ll be wearing red pajamas
Wearing red pajamas
She’ll be wearing red pajamas when she comes