Hellraisers Journal: Clara Zetkin Describes Second International Conference of Socialist Women

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Quote May Wood Simons, SPA Convention Chicago, May 10, 1908———-

Hellraisers Journal – Friday September 2, 1910
Copenhagen – Second International Conference of Socialist Women

From The Progressive Woman of August 1910:

Second International Conference of Socialist Women.

Clara Zetkin, Zurich 1897, wiki

The representatives of the organized Socialist Women of different countries, having given their assent, the undersigned convokes by their order,

The Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen on the 26th and 27th of August next. The sittings will be held in the Arbejdernes Forsamlingsbygning, Jagtxej 69 and be opened Friday, August 26th at 9 o’clock in the morning.

The provisional agenda of the conference is:

  1. Opening
  2. Measures for securing more regular relations between the organized, Socialist women of all countries.
  3. Practical work in favor of universal woman suffrage, viz. adult suffrage.
  4. Social protection and provision for motherhood and infants.

All the organized Socialist women-without difference of the group or party they belong to-as well as all the societies and unions of women workers, recognizing the fact of class war, are earnestly asked to send their delegates-women or men-to this conference.

The organizations of each country are autonomous to decide the rules of sending delegates to the conference. The number of delegates is not restricted for any organization.

The Socialist women in the various countries are kindly asked to forward proposals

All the organized Socialist women-without difference of the group or party they belong to -as well as all the societies and unions of women workers, recognizing the fact of class war, are earnestly asked to send their dele gates-women or men-to this conference. The organizations of each country are autonomous to decide the rules of sending dele gates to the conference. The number of dele gates is not restricted for any organization. The Socialist women in the various countries are kindly asked to forward proposals to the undersigned in order that those proposals can be translated and communicated to the national correspondents in time. The names of the delegates and the reports on the state and work of organizations Socialist women are concerned in, must be sent not later than the 1st of August. The reports are to be published in the three languages of the conference—German, English and French. If received in time, they will be distributed before the opening of the conference.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for September 1908, Found in Kansas and Alabama

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EVD Quote re Mother Jones, AtR, Nov 23, 1907

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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday October 11, 1908
-Mother Jones News Round-Up for September 1908
In Alabama: “Old Mother Jones..claims every miner as her son…”

Mother Jones, Dnv Pst p2, July 19, 1908

At the beginning of the month of September, we found Mother Jones attending a picnic in Girard, Kansas. By the 20th of September, we found the “Miners’ Angel” in Birmingham, Alabama. She went to Alabama in answer to the call of the miners on strike there, cutting short her visit in Girard, as promised in August.

From the Pittsburg Daily Headlight of
August 19, 1908:

WILL GO TO ALABAMA.
Mother Jones to Assist in the Alabama Strike.
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…[Mother Jones] arrived in Girard only a few days ago from a trip through Oklahoma and Texas, where she has been delivering lectures. She expected to remain for some time, but circumstances have come up which compel her to leave for Alabama, where a strike is on among the miners of the coal fields of that state. Strikes are one of her specialties and she has followed strikes in all parts of the United States for years and has spoke in every state in the union except two and her motherly attitude towards the miners makes her a favorite among them….

From The Biloxi Daily Herald of September 23, 1908:

S. W. ROSE ON HIS TRAVELS

Cullman, Ala. Sept. 20, 1908

To The Biloxi Daily Herald.

[…..]

I came this morning from Birmingham to “this side,” and am now domiciled at Cullman…

Birmingham will not let socialists speak on the streets. They hurt the feelings of the mighty city chiefs and the great governor, who is interested in working children in his cotton mill.

However, the socialists held a hall meeting that was filled to the doors. Old Mother Jones, who claims every miner as her son, was there, and the fire of her tongue is enough to terrify Birmingham city and Alabama’s state government, and yet her kind old mother heart will bring the mist to men’s eyes as she tells the woes of childhood as she has seen them in the miner’s and cotton-worker’s families. Mother Jones has been to jail again and again for her fiery words, but jails have no terrors for this modern “Joan of Arc,” and she is loved by all who known her…..

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