Hellraisers Journal: Sunday November 5, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: The Eight-Hour Day
“Lest We Forget” by Robert Minor
Hellraisers Journal, Monday October 30, 1916
Washington, D. C. – The Brotherhoods and Adamson Act
The October edition of the International Socialist Review published two articles regarding the Railroad Brotherhoods and the Adamson Act, which we have re-published in today’s Hellraisers, see below. President Wilson signed the Adamson Act into law early in September just in time to prevent a national railroad strike set to begin on Labor Day.
From the cover of the Review, October 1916:
The miners need no angel.
They are living in hell
and they want to raise hell.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday September 6, 1916
Evansville, Indiana – Labor Day Speech of Mother Jones
From the Evansville Courier of September 5, 1916:
WILSON AND KERN LABOR’S FRIENDS
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Mother Jones Tells 10,000, Gathered for Labor Day,
Their Duty to Re-elect Them
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HAVE PROVED THEIR WORTH
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“Educate and Agitate” Is Her Remedy to Bring About
Further Social Reforms
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Tells of Her Work in West Virginia and Colorado
in Behalf of Miners
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When there’s a fight on, I go.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday September 5, 1916
Evansville, Indiana – Two Interviews with Mother Jones
The people of Evansville were fortunate enough to enjoy the presence of Mother Jones at their Labor Day celebration yesterday. While in Evansville, Mother was interviewed by two of the town’s newspapers-which interviews we are pleased to offer in full.
From the Evansville Press of September 4, 1916:
MOTHER JONES DEMANDS 6-HOUR DAY;
WANTS WILSON
—–Eight-hour day! Huh!
Mother Jones, in Evansville Monday to speak at the Labor day picnic, thinks that six hours a day is enough.
(White-haired, she has, at 86, a complexion 16 might envy-rose and snow she is!)
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