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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday July 9, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for June 1901, Part I
Found Describing Victory of Scranton Silk Mill Strikers
From the International Socialist Review of June 1901:
The silk weavers’ strike at Scranton, Pa., which was directed by Mother Jones, and which has been pending for many months, was won by the workers, while the strike at Paterson, N. J., was lost, owing largely to the fact that the courts issued an injunction against the women and children, and the police assaulted them for attempting to persuade scabs to refuse to work. “Mother,” besides organizing for the unions, is now putting in some spare time in forming unions of domestic servants.
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We have just received the following letter from “Mother Jones,” which we must again offer in place of the promised article. We feel sure that our readers will appreciate the reason for the delay:
Dear Comrades:
I owe you an apology for not writing to you before. You know I had a strike of 4,000 children on my hands for three months and could not spare a moment. If that strike was lost it meant untold oppression for these little helpless things. They came out victorious and gave their masters a good hammering. I could not write a thing for June, but will for July.
I have had a very hard winter’s work, but have done just as much for socialism as if I were writing articles. One very cheering feature is that the cause is growing everywhere. I have been landing plenty of literature In the hands of the boys.
[Drawing of Mother Jones added.]
From The Scranton Republican of June 8, 1901:
THE SUNDAY REPUBLICAN
———-DELIVERED TO YOUR RESIDENCE AT TEN CENTS PER MONTH.
———-A local Sunday paper that gives all the news that is fit to print and also furnishes you enough bright and entertaining special features to keep you busy reading it all day on Sunday is worth buying…Such a paper will be the Sunday Republican of June 9.
[…..]
LOCAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Sunday Republican will also present somewhat of a novelty in this field in the shape of half-tone illustrations characters…[which will include] a double column half-tone cut of “Mother” Jones, as well as an interesting story in connection with this remarkable woman…..
From The Philadelphia Inquirer of June 8, 1901:
Mother Jones passed through Philadelphia yesterday on her way to Tower City, Pa., where she is scheduled to speak at a big mass meeting of miners.
From The Pittsburg Press of June 9, 1901:
The national organizers of the United Mine Workers held a mass meeting at Fairmont, W. Va., last week and President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, President D. A. Hayes, of the Green Bottle Blowers’ Association; “Mother Jones” and National Organizer William Warner, were present to address the meeting…..
From the Philadelphia Times of June 9, 1901:
“Mother” Jones, the miners’ organizer, reports that the miners in West Virginia are rapidly becoming unionized. She says that Thursday night last a labor union parade was held in Fairmont, W. V., the first of the kind ever seen in that city. A number of new locals have recently been formed in the Fairmont district.
From the Pottsville Republican of June 10, 1901:
Organizer Dilcher and Mother Jones, of the U. M. W. A., were guests at the Hotel Woll, yesterday.
Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, St L Lbr, Apr 13, 1901
The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988
-Page268 (290 of 361)
“The Strike in Scranton”
-from St. Louis Labor of Apr 13, 1901
https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735035254105/viewer#page/290/mode/2up
The International Socialist Review, Volume 1
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 1900-June 1901
Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1901
https://books.google.com/books?id=KJ_VAAAAMAAJ
ISR – June 1901, pages 816 & 823
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v01n12-jun-1901-ISR-gog-Wisc.pdf
The Scranton Republican
(Scranton, Pennsylvania)
-June 8, 1901
Note: sadly unable to find Sunday Republican online.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/48205176/
The Philadelphia Inquirer
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
-June 8, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/168167985/
The Pittsburg Press
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
-June 9, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/141359692/
The Times
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
-June 9, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/52842327/
Pottsville Republican
(Pottsville, Pennsylvania)
-June 10, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/449120207/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Drawing, SDH p4, Mar 9, 1901
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/social-democratic-herald-us/010309-socdemherald-v03n38w140.pdf
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 15, 1901
International Socialist Review: Mother Jones and the Silk Mill Strike at Scranton, Pennsylvania
Tag: UMW West Virginia Organizing Campaign of 1900-1902
https://weneverforget.org/tag/umw-west-virginia-organizing-campaign-of-1900-1902/
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for May 1901, Part I: Found Standing with Silk Mill Strikers and Servant Girls of Pennsylvania
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for May 1901, Part II: Found Organizing Servant Girls of Pennsylvania and Miners of West Virginia
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Union Maid – Billy Bragg
-Mike & Ruthy Merenda, Dar Williams, New York City Labor Chorus
Lyrics Woody Guthrie