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Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 17, 1900
Mother Jones News Round-Up for November 1900, Part I
Found Celebrating Victory with Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Miners
From Pennsylvania’s Allentown Morning Call of November 1, 1900:
HAZLETON, Oct. 31.-All the collieries in the Hazleton district, with the exception of those of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, Milnesville and Derringer, are in operation to-day. The Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Company is ready to resume at once but as to-morrow is a Catholic holiday which is observed generally by Catholics, it is not likely that resumption will begin until Friday. All hands are satisfied and practically a full force of men will report for duty. Derringer is idle because of the inauguration of another strike on account of minor grievances, but it is expected that the colliery will be in operation as usual tomorrow…..
BIG MEETING AT M’ADOO.
The mine workers of the entire South Side held a parade and a big mass meeting at McAdoo to-night. Several visiting mine workers’ locals participated. Addresses were delivered by President Mitchell, George Purcell, John Fahey, “Mother” Jones and others. This was the greatest jollification meeting ever conducted on the south Side. President Mitchell was the first speaker. He concluded in time to make the 9.05 train leaving Hazleton for Mauch Chunk and points west.
MEETING AT LEADER’S GRAVE.
A monster mass meeting of miners will be held at the grave of John Siney, the great labor leader, at St. Clair on Saturday. President Mitchell and members of the national board will speak……
[Photograph added.]
From The Boston Sunday Globe of November 4, 1900:
“MOTHER” MARY JONES.
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Principal Speaker at a Socialist Rally
In Faneuil Hall-She Predicts
Large Vote for Debs.“Mother” Mary Jones was the principal feature of the rally of the democratic social party last night in Faneuil hall. She had come fresh from the triumphs of the recent strike in the Pennsylvania coal mines, prophesied that the miners would give a big vote for the socialists next Tuesday.
There was no crowding in the hall, although the floor space was fairly filled, and a dozen or more were in the gallery.
John Weaver Sherman was speaking when Mrs. Jones came into the hall. She was cheered and clapped, but walked up on the stage platform without paying any attention to that, and took off her hat and wrap, and found a seat for herself in the front row of chairs.
Mr Sherman shortened his speech and retired to give place to Mrs Jones, but David Goldstein seized the opportunity to get the floor, and read a resolution denouncing the socialists who had asked candidate Debs to retire in favor of Bryan.
Mother Jones was then introduced. Her address was principally on the troubles in the mines and the treatment of the miners and their families, interlarded with stories of what she had seen in the miners’ homes and in the south when she worked in the mill to learn the treatment of the hands.
Incidentally she said that the only way of bettering the condition of things as they now are is to vote for the candidates of the democratic social party.
Mrs Jones was followed by Mayor John C. Chase of Haverhill, J. Mahlon Barnes, David Jones, Thomas P. Abbott, Squire E. Putney and others.
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From The Indianapolis News of November 6, 1900:
INCIDENTS OF THE STRIKE
—–INTERESTING AND AMUSING FEATURES.
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President Mitchell’s Secretary Talks of Her
Experiences Among the Anthracite Miners.Miss Elizabeth Morris, secretary to John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, brought back from Hazleton, Pa., a fund of stories based on scenes during the anthracite coal miners’ strike. She accompanied Mitchell all the time he was away, and rode in carriages in the big street demonstrations.
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[Miss Morris Describes Mother Jones.]
“Mother Jones” was the heroine everywhere, in the marches and the street demonstrations. Often I was taken for her while riding in a carriage. In the Scranton parade, miners would get up and yell, as our carriage passed by, “Hurrah for President Mitchell and Mother Jones.” I do not look like “Mother Jones,” but that made no difference. Women would march ten or fifteen miles after night to urge the miners to quit work.
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From the Hazleton Plain Speaker of November 12, 1900:
“Mother” Jones Here Again.
“Mother” Jones is again in this region and will address the miners of the Hazleton district at regular intervals and strengthen the organization.
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ON THE NORTH SIDE
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Mechanics Organizing.
The mechanics employed in and around the mines were organized yesterday afternoon in the Grand Opera House by “Mother” Jones. The new organization will be one of the affiliated trades attached to the America Federation of Labor…..
A Labor Rally.
“Mother” Jones will address a public meeting of the workers at the Grand Opera House this evening. The meeting is the first of a series to be held here with the object of inducing all the workers who have not yet joined the union to do so. “Mother” Jones always draws a good house and this evening will be no exception to the rule.
Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, If war Shamokin Sep 8, Phl Iq p2, Sept 9, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/167217933/
The Allentown Morning Call
(Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Nov 1, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/274671947/
The Boston Sunday Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts)
-Nov 4, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/430744958/
The Indianapolis News
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-Nov 6, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/40041417/
The Plain Speaker
(Hazleton, Pennsylvania)
-November 12, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/501623085/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/501623077/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Scranton Tx p1, Oct 13, 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/image/534727906/
See also
Tag: Great Anthracite Strike of 1900
https://weneverforget.org/tag/great-anthracite-strike-of-1900/
John Siney
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAsiney.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92527614/john-siney
Tribute to John Siney
https://wynninghistory.com/2019/02/22/siney-tribute/
Visiting John Siney’s Grave in St. Clair
https://wynninghistory.com/2019/06/02/siney-grave/
John Siney, The Miners’ Martyr
-by Edward Pinkowski
Philadelphia, 1963
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010111872
Tag: Social Democratic Party of America
https://weneverforget.org/tag/social-democratic-party-of-america/
Tag: Debs Campaign of 1900
https://weneverforget.org/tag/debs-campaign-of-1900/
Mother Jones News Round-Up for October 1900
Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for October 1900
Part I: Found in Pennsylvania Supporting the Great Anthracite Strike
Part II: Found Leading Army of Women; Lattimer Now Close Down Tight
Part III: Found Marching from McAdoo to Beaver Meadows and Hazleton
Part IV: Found Marching to Panther Creek with Army of Strong Mining Women
Part V: Found Declaring Victory at Panther Creek; Grand March Closed Mines
Part VI: Found Celebrating Great Victory for United Mine Workers in Pennsylvania
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They’ll Never Keep Us Down – Hazel Dickens