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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday August 23, 1919
Homestead, Pennsylvania -Mother Jones and Steel Organizers Arrested
From the Lebanon Daily News of August 21, 1919:
MOTHER JONES LABOR AGITATOR
WAS ARRESTED
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Charged With Attempting To Hold Street Meeting
In Homestead, Pa., Without Permit-Trouble Threatened When “Mother”
Was Taken to Lockup.(Special to News by United Press).
Homestead, Pa., Aug. 21.-Mother Jones, labor agitator, and three organizers for the American Federation of Labor, were to appear in police court here today on charges of attempting to hold a street meeting without a permit. They were arrested last night [August 20th] while addressing a gathering of iron and steel workers.
A crowd of several thousand foreigners threatened trouble when the police took Mother Jones to the station house. She had mounted the rear seat of the automobile which carried her and addressed the crowd, advising them to “go home and be good boys.” The crowd gave three cheers for the United States and dispersed.
Mother Jones and the three of organizers-J. G. Brown, of Seattle Wash., J. L. Boghan, of Chicago, and R. W. Riley, of Homestead-were released on positing $15 forfeits.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
