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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for September 1920, Part I: “Famous Woman Leader of Miners” Found in Missouri and Illinois

Janet RayeBattle of Blair Mountain of 1921
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Quote Mother Jones, Doomed, Wmsn WV, June 20, 1920, Speeches Steel, p213———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday October 23, 1920
Mother Jones News for September 1920, Part I
“Famous Woman Leader of Miners” Found in Missouri and Illinois

From the United Mine Workers Journal of September 1, 1920:

Mother Jones IN Dly Tx p1 crpd, July 15, 1920

Labor Day Speakers

Notice of the following assignments of speakers for celebrations of the United Mine Workers of America on Labor Day have been received at the office of the Journal:

Philip Murray, International Vice President, New Kensington, Pa .
William Green, International Secretary Treasurer, Cambridge, Ohio.
Ellis Searles, Editor of the United Mine Workers Journal, Ernest, Pa.
Samuel Pascoe, President of District 30, Novinger, Mo.
Andrew Steele, International Board Member from District 25, South Fork, Pa.
William Turnblazer, International Organizer, Spadra, Ark.
Mother Jones, Kirksville, Mo.
William Feeney, International Organizer, Midland, Ark

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for August 1920, Part II: Found Opining on Women, the Ballot, and “the Stormy Course of Labor”

Janet RayeHellraisers Journal
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Quote Mother Jones, Suffrage, Ballot, Labor, WDC Tx p2, Aug 29, 1920———-

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday September 26, 1920
-Mother Jones News for August 1920, Part II
Found in Washington, D. C., Opining on Women, the Ballot, and Labor Struggles

From The Washington Times of August 29, 1920:

BNR HdLn Women n Ballot per Mother Jones, WDC Tx p2, Aug 29, 1920

SEES CURE IN RIGHT VOTING
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Victory Futile, Says 90-Year-Old Leader,
If “Ownership of Bread” is Lost.
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“No nation can ever grow greater or more human than its womanhood and I am not expecting the millennium as a result of woman’s privilege to vote,” said Mother Jones, noted woman leader, here today.

Mother Jones re Women n Ballot, WDC Tx p2, Aug 29, 1920

I am anxious to see women stand aide by side with men in developing the human family, but all of the ballots in the world will not change conditions for the people’s welfare unless attention is focused upon the disease causing the trouble.

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