Hellraisers Journal: Thousands Attend Funeral at Trinidad for Martyred Coal Miners Shot Down at Battle of Segundo

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Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday December 12, 1903
Trinidad, Colorado – Funeral Held for De Santos and Vilano, Mother Jones Attends

From The Denver Post of December 11, 1903:

Funeral for De Santos and Vilano, DP p6, Dec 11, 1903

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Hellraisers Journal: John Mitchell Expects Peace in Southern Colorado, States Mother Jones and Best Organizers Are on the Spot

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Quote Mother Jones re North n South Coal Miners Separate Settle, Ab p99, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Friday December 11, 1903
Chicago, Illinois – John Mitchell Expects Peace in Southern Colorado

From the Chicago Inter Ocean of December 9, 1903:

John Mitchel Pres UMWA, fr Organized Labor p6, 1903

Speculation that John Mitchell would fire Mother Jones for her part in delaying the separate settlement of the northern coal miners has not yet been realized. The following is an interview published in the Inter Ocean:

John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, is at McCoy’s hotel. He came directly from Colorado.

“I regard the situation there as hopeful,” he said. “I believe a settlement will be reached, and I do not expect to have to return there. ‘Mother’ Jones and some of our best organizers are on the spot.

“The public mind, I believe, is somewhat confused concerning the troubles in the silver mines in Colorado. Many think that the United Mine Workers are concerned with them. Our men are coal miners only, and have had nothing to do with bringing about martial law. We have secured satisfactory settlements in the northern part of the state, and expect solid peace soon in the southern.”

[Emphasis added.]

Mitchell’s lack of concern for the metal miners is stunning. This lack of concern by Mitchell for these striking metal miners, now oppressed under military despotism, is another bone of contention between Mother Jones and her boss. Mother has shown all the Solidarity possible with the metal miners; she advocates unceasingly for unity between the United Mine Workers of America and the Western Federation of Miners.

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Hellraisers Journal: Colorado’s Northern Miners Vote to Resume Work; Mitchell Scores Victory Over Mother Jones

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Quote Mother Jones re North n South Coal Miners Separate Settle, Ab p99, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday November 30, 1903
Louisville, Colorado – Striking Coal Miners of Northern Colorado Vote to End Strike

From The Denver Post of November 29, 1903:

Mitchell Wins Over Northern Miners HdLn, Dnv Pst p1, Nov 29, 1903William Howells, CO Northern Miners Settlement Terms, Dnv Pst p1, Nov 29, 1903CO Northern Miners Settle, Mitchell Victory Over Mother Jones, Dnv Pst p1, Nov 29, 1903

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Arrives in Trinidad Unannounced, Will Investigate Conditions and Visit Homes of Miners

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Quote Mother Jones WV Miners Conditions, ISR p179 , Sept 1901—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday October 21, 1903
Trinidad, Colorado – Mother Jones Arrives, Meets with District 15 Officials

From The Denver Post of October 20, 1903:

Mother Jones to Trinidad Unannounced, Dnv Pst p5, Oct 20, 1903Mother Jones to Trinidad Unannounced 2, Dnv Pst p5, Oct 20, 1903

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Stops Over in Cincinnati, States Optimistically: “The laboring man is advancing every day.”

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Quote Mother Jones, Live f Justice n Love, Carbondale Dly Ns p2, Nov 24, 1900—————

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday October 20, 1903
Mother Jones Stands with Working Men and Women

Saturday October 17, 1903
Cincinnati, Ohio – Mother Jones, “The laboring man is advancing every day.”

Mother Jones was in Cincinnati for a few hours yesterday on her way to Chicago. This famous old labor agitator travels alone. While in Cincinnati she made this statement:

Mother Jones on Workingman, Cnc Eq p16, Oct 17, 1903
The Cincinnati Enquirer
October 17, 1903

To advance the cause of labor and laboring people is my only object. I have for years studied carefully the labor question, and in all my speeches to the miners and others I advocated peace and efficient work as the sure road to success. My idea is that every laborer, man or woman, should be worthy of their hire. They should, out of each week or month’s salary, save a few pennies, dimes or dollars. I am in hearty sympathy with the workingman, and in times of strikes or lockouts I make it my duty to go to the scene of trouble and lend my aid to the laborer and his family. They are my personal charges.

I think the day will come when capital will learn to respect laborers enough to pay them in proportion to the services they render. I am at all times an advocate of peace when disagreements arise between employer and employees, for that is the laborer’s stronghold. If he can only hold out and remain peaceable the victory is won. It is a rare occurrence that anything is accomplished by the working men who cause strife and bloodshed. They lose the respect sympathy of those who would otherwise be with them in time of need.

I think the laboring man is advancing every day, and it will be my life work to aid in this advancement.

From The Denver Post of October 18, 1903
-Mother Jones, Joan of Arc, Expected Soon in Denver:

Mother Jones Joan of Arc, Dnv Pst p25, Oct 18, 1903

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