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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday May 8, 1920
-Mother Jones News for March 1920, Part II
Found in Denver Conferring with Local Labor Leaders
From The Denver Post of March 27, 1920:
3 MINES EXTEND CONTRACTS
UNTIL AGREEMENT COMES
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“Mother” Jones on Way to Denver
to Speak to Laboring Men.
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A temporary extension of the contract with the United Mine Workers of America until contracts have been signed in the central competitive district has been announced by officers of the International Fuel company operating the Evans mine at Evans; the Natural, near Louisville; and the National mine in Routt county.
These three mines employ about 300 men. Final action on the renewal of the contract will not be taken until conditions have been agreed upon in the central competitive field.
President John McLennan of District 15, United Mine Workers of America, has returned from Utah. Retiring President John Nigro, who has been in Denver for several days, and Vice President “Mike” Livoda returned to Pueblo Saturday. No decision has been reached yet whether a suspension of work will follow the refusal of many of the operators to renew or extend union contracts April 1.
“Mother” Jones, now en route from San Francisco to the east, will arrive in Denver at 8:20 o’clock Saturday night via the Denver & Rio Grande according to a telegram received by Secretary Edward Anderson of the State Federation of Labor. Arrangements probably will be made for a meeting at which she will be principal speaker. Labor leaders are without information as to the probable length of her visit in Denver.
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From The Rocky Mountain News of March 29, 1920:
‘MOTHER’ JONES IS HERE TO CONFER WITH MINERS
—–“Mother” Jones, militant strike, leader, who was imprisoned at Trinidad by military authorities during the Colorado Fuel and Iron company strike, arrived in Denver yesterday morning from California, where she has been recuperating from an attack of rheumatism contracted, she said, during the steel strike at Gary, Ind.
The aged organizer said that she had stopped in Denver to talk with officials of the United Mine Workers and the Colorado State Federation of Labor.
She declared that the remedy for the present abnormal conditions thruout the world is co-operative effort of churches and other organizations toward restoring permanent peace and harmony in the industrial world.
[She further stated:]
We should educate along the lines of force of law, rather than the law of force,” said Mrs. Jones. “Congress is wasting time fooling with the league of nations when more important matters are pending.
We have social welfare workers, community workers, Red Cross and similar organizations, and yet there is suffering in working centers thruout the country that is beyond compare.
Mrs. Jones is staying here at the Oxford hotel.
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, NYT p1, Oct 6, 1916
-re Raising Hell
The Denver Post
(Denver, Colorado)
-Mar 27, 1920, page 4
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The Rocky Mountain News
(Denver, Colorado)
-Mar 29, 1920, page 3
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IMAGE
Mother Jones, Chg Tb p120, Oct 26, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/355273232/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Friday May 7, 1920
-Mother Jones News for March 1920, Part I
Found Supporting Shipyard Strikers of San Francisco and Vicinity
The Rocky Mountain News of Mar 27, 1920, page 4
& The Denver Post of Mar 28, 1920, page 9
https://www.genealogybank.com/
League of Nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations
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The Spirit Of Mother Jones – Andy Irvine