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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday January 17, 1914
Trinidad, Colorado – Chase: Mother Jones is “an Inciter of Violence and a Disturber”
From the Trinidad Chronicle News of January 15, 1914
-200 Women Invade Hotel, Demand Gen. Chase Release Mother Jones:
From The Day Book of January 16, 1914
-Mother Jones on Mexican “Bandits” and Colorado Soldiers:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Chase No Own State, RMN p3, Jan 12, 1914
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-1478F5FED1489F20@2420145-14776648A6574308@2-14776648A6574308
The Chronicle News
(Trinidad, Colorado)
-Jan 15, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1914-01-15/ed-1/seq-1/
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jan 16, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-16/ed-1/seq-15/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday January 13, 1914
Trinidad, Colorado – Mother Jones Seized by State Militia, Held at San Rafael Hospital
Jan 16, 1914, The Denver Post
-“200 Women Lay Siege to Chase in Hotel Lobby
Strikers’ Wives Demand Reason for Mother Jones’ Arrest”
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C7581AC4BD0728@GB3NEWS-136C6009B0F73F70@2420149-136C5B2D3A0D09C8@11-136C5B2D3A0D09C8
Jan 16, 1914, The Rocky Mountain News
-“Mother Jones’ Released Denied
Demands of 200 Trinidad Women on Militia Head Are Ignored”
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-1478F6014A22D940@2420149-14776648D21E5228@3-14776648D21E5228
Jan 17, 1914, Denver United Labor Bulletin
“Mother Jones Made Prisoner, Being Held Incommunicado
Chase’s Latest Outrage Heaps Disgrace Upon State”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-01-17/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-01-17/ed-1/seq-5/
-editorial: “Ammons and Chase Press the Limit”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-01-17/ed-1/seq-4/
Tag: Military Despotism Colorado 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/military-despotism-colorado-1914/
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/
From The New York Times of January 17, 1914:
TO RESCUE MOTHER JONES.
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900 Miners Threaten Force if
She is Not Set Free at Once.Special to The New York Times.
DENVER, Col., Jan. 16.-Nine hundred union miners in Fremont County announced to-night that unless the military authorities at Trinidad liberated Mother Jones in twenty-four hours they would set her free by force of arms. This ultimatum came to Gov. Ammons and Gen. Chase from a meeting of strikers at Rockvale to-day. Nine hundred men attended the meeting and adopted resolutions demanding freedom for the aged woman labor leader.
“The imprisonment of Mother Jones is unlawful. The God-given rights of American Citizens are being trampled under foot.” said the resolutions. David Robb, leader of the strike forces in Fremont County, presided at the meeting.
[Emphasis added.]
SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Jan 17, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20573251/
In her Autobiography Mother Jones describes her arrest in Trinidad:
I was in Trinidad three hours before they knew I was there. They telephoned the governor. They telephoned General Chase in charge of the militia. “Mother Jones is in Trinidad!” they said.
“Impossible!” said the Governor. “Impossible!” said the general.
“Nevertheless, she is here!”
My arrest was ordered.
A delegation of miners came to me. “Boys,” I said, “they are going to arrest me but don’t make any trouble. Just let them do it.”
“Mother,” said they , “we aren’t going to let them arrest you!”
“Yes, you will. Let them carry on their game.”
While we were sitting there talking, I heard footsteps tramping up the stairs.
“Here they come,” said I and we sat quietly waiting.
The door opened. It was a company of militia.
“Did you come after me, boys?” said I. They looked embarrassed.
“Pack your valise and come,” said the captain.
They marched me down stairs and put me in an automobile that was waiting at the door.
The miners had followed. One of them had tears rolling down his cheeks.
“Mother,” he cried, “I wish I could go for you!”
We drove to the prison first, passing cavalry and infantry and gunmen, sent by the state to subdue the miners. Orders were given to drive me to the Sisters’ Hospital, a portion of which had been turned into a military prison. They put me in a small room with white plastered walls, with a cot, a chair and a table, and for nine weeks I stayed in that one room, seeing no human beings but the silent military. One stood on either side of the cell door, two stood across the hall, one at the entrance to the hall, two at the elevator entrance on my floor, two on the ground floor elevator entrance.
Outside my window a guard walked up and down, up and down day and night, day and night, his bayonet flashing in the sun.
“Lads,” said I to the two silent chaps at the door, “the great Standard Oil is certainly afraid of an old woman!”
They grinned.
My meals were sent to me by the sisters.
They were not, of course, luxurious. In all those nine weeks I saw no one, received not a letter, a paper, a postal card. I saw only landscape and the bayonet flashing in the sun.
SOURCE
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
-ed by Mary Field Parton
Charles H Kerr Pub, 1925
Chapter 21, In Rockefeller’s Prisons
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/21/
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