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

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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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Hellraisers Journal: From The Masses: Maurice Becker on “When Strike Is Treason”

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There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday July 27, 1916
From The Masses: “A strike will be treason!”

The Capitalist’s Best Dream from this month’s edition of The Masses:

Masses, When Strike Is Treason, M Becker, July 1916

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