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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday August 11, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1901, Part III
Found Organizing Coal Miners in West Virginia
From the Baltimore Sun of July 24, 1901:
APPEALING TO MINERS
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“Mother” Jones Arrives In The West Virginia Field.(Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.)
Morgantown, W. Va., July 23.-The organization known as the United Mine Workers of America will make a desperate effort this summer to bring all the West Virginia miners now outside of their organization into it.
Thomas Burker [Burke], Edward Cahill, John H. Walker and Mary Jones, known as “Mother” Jones, arrived from Indianapolis yesterday and will begin their work here……
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[Photograph added.]
From West Virginia’s Shepherdstown Register of July 25, 1901:
John Jay Jackson Jr., Injunction Judge
At Charleston Tuesday Judge Jackson made perpetual a temporary injunction that he had granted restraining the striking coal miners in the Flat Top region [Pocahontas Coalfield] from interfering with the operation of the mines, and he held for the action of the grand jury certain miners who are said to have fired on United States officers. The Judge severely denounced the miners.
The United Mine Workers will get “Mother Jones” to come to West Virginia to help the cause of the strikers.
It will soon be demonstrated, however, that Judge Jackson is a bigger man than “Mother Jones.”
From The Indianapolis Journal of July 30, 1901:
Mother Jones and Eugene Debs Send Greetings
to Socialist Unity Convention
Numerous telegrams were received from sympathizers of the party throughout the country, among them being one from Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the Socialists [those Socialists associated with the Social Democratic Party of America], and “Mother” Jones, the stanch supported of organized labor.
Note: Emphasis added throughout.
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SOURCES
The Sun
(Baltimore, Maryland)
-July 24, 1901
https://www.newspapers.com/image/365309312/
The Shepherdstown Register
(Shepherdstown, West Virginia)
-July 25, 1901
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026824/1901-07-25/ed-1/seq-2/
The Indianapolis Journal
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-July 30, 1901
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1901-07-30/ed-1/seq-4/
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:
(opens in a new ta-re Mother Jones in West Virginia:
Hellraisers Journal – Friday July 26, 1901
Morgantown, West Virginia – Mother Jones Arrives with U. M. W. Organizers
Hellraisers Journal – Saturday July 27, 1901
Charleston, West Virginia – Is Judge Jackson a bigger man than Mother Jones?
–re Founding Convention of the Socialist Party of America
(scroll down to Conventions of Socialist Party of America)
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/spa/socialistparty.html
Conventions of the Socialist Party of America
1. “Socialist Unity Convention”—Indianapolis, IN— July 29 – Aug. XX, 1901.
The “Socialist Unity Convention” of 1901 brought together the anti-unionist faction of the Social Democratic Party headed by Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger and the New York-based “Kangaroo” faction of the SLP and their unionist SDP allies, a group which included Morris Hillquit, Job Harriman, and Algernon Lee.Party headquarters were established in St. Louis, MO, which was selected over Chicago by a vote of 3,517 to 3,096 at the Indianapolis Convention. Day to day operations were conducted by a “Local Quorum” of five party members living in the St. Louis area.
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAAJ
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435
-pages 10-11 (60 of 415):
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735057897435/viewer#page/60/mode/2up
Sewell W. Virginia
July the 31st 1901My dear Comrade Mitchell
For some reason which I cannot account for I have neglected writing you you asked why I did not get to Lassalle one reason I found when I got to St Louis I could not make connections and return to Bellville. They had made their time long in May I did feel that it would be dealing fair with them not to keep my word Then the Clay Miners at the Brick yards were on a strike. They came in to St Louis and begged me to go out and help them. They had music and flags and a big parade of men women and children they [?] in a few days after that and I knew that you would rather see those poor wretches turn out than have me at Lassalle I regretted not having seen you when at Indianapolis but I presume Mr. Wilson told you the object of my visit.
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We were up the mountain at S Caperton last night and came down the goat path after 12 o’clock I had to slide down most of it. My bones are all sore today Boscowell [Samuel Boskill, International Organizer] is sick after his trip and Ed Cahill [International Organizer] says if they never come into the union I wont go up there again. One Gen Manager did not go with us he went to Charleston. The Ill [Illinois] boys are good hard workers but they are beginning to realize this is not the smoothest field in the country to work in I hope your little is better take good care of your own health
Believe me always faithfully fraternally yours
Mother[Emphasis added.]
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She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain -Ken Carson and the Choraliers