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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for November 1910, Part II: “Trinity of Sleek Parasites,” Roosevelt, Mitchell, Bishop of Scranton

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Quote Mother Jones, Capitalists Money Grabbing Parasites, AtR p2, Nov 5, Mnrs Mag p11, Nov 17, 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday December 29, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for November 1910, Part II:
–Roosevelt, Mitchell and Bishop of Scranton: “Trinity of Sleek Parasites”

From The New York Call of November 14, 1910:

MOTHER JONES’ LATEST VISIT
TO THE ANTHRACITE FIELDS

Mother Jones, the friend of the miners, the Socialist apostle, is now seventy-seven years old, but her activities in behalf of the oppressed are as vigorous as ever. Only lately she paid a visit to the anthracite fields. Her account of her visit, written for The Call, is as follows:

What I Saw in the Anthracite Fields.

Mother Jones, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910

My work in connection with the Mexican cases being completed at Washington, and feeling assured that the victims of this “bloodocracy” would not be rearrested on their liberation from prison, I decided to visit the boys in the anthracite regions, investigate conditions, and see what progress, if any, had been made in the way of organization and education since the last general strike. My visit to the anthracite regions which border on the inferno followed that of Roosevelt and his ex-labor leader, John Mitchell [ex-President of United Mine Workers of America], who had visited the coal fields, so it is said, for the purpose of making some observations and investigations as to the condition of the slaves whose lifeblood is coined into profits that the few may riot in luxury.

When Roosevelt and his bodyguard arrived at Scranton they were received by the Bishop of Scranton, who wined and dined them and who remarked during the meal that it was the first time in his life he had had the honor of sitting between two Presidents. On the right of the bishop sat Mr. Roosevelt, friend of the workingman. It was he who, in order to show his friendship, sent 2,000 guns to Colorado to shoot the miners into subjection and, if they did not obey, blow their brains out, and who, while president of the United States, sent hundreds of messages to Congress, but never one in the interest of the working class. Not even when the explosion in the Monongah mine sent 700 souls, the souls of wage slaves, into the shadows and shocked the civilized world, did he find it in his sterile conscience to send a message to Congress demanding protection for the men whose labor feeds the mammoth maw of industry and warms the fireside of the world. Roosevelt’s real interest in the working class is only aroused when he seeks their votes. On the left of the bishop sat the $6,000 Civic Federation beauty [Mitchell], pet of the mine owners, decorated with diamonds, gifts from the coal barons.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for November 1910, Part I: Holds Roosevelt Responsible for Ruin of Mine Workers in Anthracite

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Quote Mother Jones, Oligarchy, Sops, Rise Up, Giants, Clv Oct 12, Lbr Arg p1, Oct 13, 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday December 28, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for November 1910, Part I:
–Blames Roosevelt for State of Miners Union in Anthracite Field

From the Muskegon News Chronicle of November 4, 1910:

Workers of the World Peter Power, Muskegon MI Chc p5, Nov 4, 1910

[Mother Jones] Holds T. R. Responsible
for Ruin of Coal Union.

Mother Jones, Tacoma Tx p7, Oct 24, 1910

That man Roosevelt is responsible for the wrecking of the once powerful union of anthracite miners; he turned John Mitchell’s head by flattery and did what Geo. F. Baer and the combined hard coal barons couldn’t do. I repeat, the overrated Roosevelt wrecked the anthracite miners union.

These startling words were uttered by Mother Jones in conversation with the writer a few days ago, while en route to the Irwin-Greensburg coal field to assist the 20,000 striking miners who have been locked out since last spring [Westmoreland County Coal Strike].

Mother Jones is unquestionably the most influential figure among the American miners today, and has been for a decade. If she were a man she would be the life president of the United Mine Workers of North America. It was Mother Jones more than any other human being who rallied the hard coal miners in their helpless slavery 10 years ago and cheered them on a fight their way out.

[Said Mother:]

Now, after ten years of open shoppery, the boys are back in the old rut, back on the treadmill, not daring to call their souls their own, thanks to the scheming and hypocrisy of Roosevelt. And then that bluffer had the audacity to go down into the Scranton district recently, accompanied by photographers and press agents, and gloat and grin at the poor miners and announce ostentatiously, “I am ex-President Roosevelt.”

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Hellraisers Journal: From Newark Evening Star: “Find Bodies in Factory Ruins; Twenty-Three Dead in City Morgues”

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Rose Schneiderman Quote, Life So Cheap, NY Met Opera Hse, Apr 2, Survey p84, Apr 8, 1911 ———–

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday November 27, 1910
Newark, New Jersey – Many Perish in Factory Fire, Scores Missing

From the Newark Evening Star of November 26, 1910:

Newark NJ Factory Fire Banner HdLn, detail, Newark Eve Str p1, Nov 26, 1910———-

Newark NJ Factory Fire Banner HdLn, Newark Eve Str p1, Nov 26, 1910

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: “Fresno Free Speech Fight Is Re-opened-On To Fresno”

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Quote Frank Little, Fresno Jails Dungeons, FMR p6, Sept 2, 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday November 26, 1910
Fresno, California – I. W. W. Declares Free Speech Fight Re-opened

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of November 24, 1910:

IWW Fresno FSF Re Opened, IW p1, Nov 24, 1910

From The Fresno Morning Republican of November 23, 1910:

COUNTY INSTITUTIONS TO HAVE THANKSGIVING
TURKEY FEASTS
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School Children of Fowler Send 1-2 Ton 

Fruit to County Orphanage.
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Jail Prisoners Only Ones Who Will 

Not Taste Turkey and Pie
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Thanksgiving cheer will gladden the hearts of the inmates of the various county institutions tomorrow, all excepting tho prisoners in the county jail. Visions of the voluntary incarceration of the I. W. W. “martyrs” still afflict the officers in charge of “La Maison Fresno” and they strenuously deny any attempt to make jail life attractive with the garnishings of the American holiday. So if any prisoners partake of turkey it will be through the instrumentality of “Kangaroo Court,” the co-operative fund established by the prisoners, or through the assistance of friends…..

[Emphasis added.]

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Hellraisers Journal: “Girls of Four Work at Night” -Report from Lewis Hines Stirs New Hampshire Legislature

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Mother Jones Quote, Child Labor Man of Six Snuff Sniffer———-

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 23, 1910
Manchester, New Hampshire – Lewis Hine Exposes “Unspeakable” Conditions

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat of November 22, 1910:

GIRLS OF FOUR WORK AT NIGHT
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Unspeakable Moral Conditions Declared
to Exist in New Hampshire Cotton Mills
-Child Labor Law Is Being Urged.
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Special to The Times-Democrat

Child Labor Lewis Hine Little Girl, detail, Manchester NH, May 25, 1909, LOC

New York. Nov. 21.-A Special from Concord. N. H., says: Because of what are termed the “unspeakable” conditions existing in the immense cotton mills at Manchester, N. H., the New Hampshire Legislature will this winter be asked to pass a law forbidding the employment of young girls in the cotton mills of the State at night. The mills employ 15,000 persons.

A report made by Lewis Hine, a special agent of the National Child Labor Commission, after an investigation of the mills, refers to the “unspeakable moral conditions under which girls are employed at night.”

Mr. Hine was loaned to the superintendent of public instruction, Mr. Morrison, to make the investigation, and it is understood on his findings that Mr. Morrison will ask for a law prohibiting the employment of children between the hours of 6 at night and 6 in the morning. Mr. Hine’s report will be incorporated in that which Mr. Morrison will place before Gov. Bass and his council. It will show that girls of four and upward are employed in the mills throughout the night and that this is not forbidden by law. Mr. Morrison is averse to publishing the facts that have come to his knowledge, if the Legislature will pass the bill without such publicity. He makes no threats about publication, but he says:

“We want that law.”

He also urges that the age limit for child labor be abolished, and that the qualification be one of education, except that no children be permitted to work nights.

“There are big hulking boys under the age limit.” said Mr. Morrison to-day, “who are only in the way at school, and who might just as well be at work.

“On the other hand, there are undersized and underfed little children of sixteen and over, mere skin and bones, who ought to be pulled out of the mills and shops in the name of humanity.”

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[Emphasis added.]
[Note: photograph added is by Lewis Hine, taken at Manchester, N. H., on May 25, 1909.]

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Spokane Industrial Worker: Lucy Parsons Recalls Terrible Day Her Husband Was Hanged

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Quote Albert Parsons, Chicago, Nov 11, Alarm p1, Nov 19, 1887———-

Hellraisers Journal – Friday November 18, 1910
Lucy Parsons Recalls Terrible Day in 1887 When Chicago Martyrs Were Murdered

From the Spokane Industrial Worker of November 17, 1910:

A LOYAL WIFE AND LOVING MOTHER
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(Extract from “Liberator.”)

Lucy Parsons, Life of AP, pub Chg 1889

 

So the fatal day at last arrived. It was a sad, quiet, chilly November morning. I had not seen my husband for three days. We had two children then. I felt that I must take them to see their father, to look into his noble face once more, and to receive his blessing. I took them by the hands and led them to the jail. When I arrived there I found the accursed place where the slaughter of the innocent was to take place. all roped in for one whole block around, and police with rifles marching up and down all around. I entreated them to let me see him just once more! I was gruffly ordered away. I then begged them, the brutes , to take the innocent children to see their father; certainly they had done no wrong to deserve punishment; but the reply was a patrol wagon was called and I and the children were tumbled in and carried off to the station house and locked in a cell while the murder was being committed.

About noon the matron came to my cell and said in a cold-hearted manner: “Mrs. Parsons, it is all over; your husband has been hanged.” I remembered nothing more until I realized that my little girl was patting me on the cheek and saying. “Mamma, are you asleep?”

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Opines on Meeting between Bishop of Scranton and Ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Mitchell

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Quote Mother Jones, Last Great Battle, UMWC p420, Jan 26, 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday November 15, 1910
“What I Saw in the Anthracite Fields” by Mother Jones

From The New York Call of November 14, 1910:

MOTHER JONES’ LATEST VISIT
TO THE ANTHRACITE FIELDS

Mother Jones, the friend of the miners, the Socialist apostle, is now seventy-seven years old, but her activities in behalf of the oppressed are as vigorous as ever. Only lately she paid a visit to the anthracite fields. Her account of her visit, written for The Call, is as follows:

What I Saw in the Anthracite Fields.

Mother Jones, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910

My work in connection with the Mexican cases being completed at Washington, and feeling assured that the victims of this “bloodocracy” would not be rearrested on their liberation from prison, I decided to visit the boys in the anthracite regions, investigate conditions, and see what progress, if any, had been made in the way of organization and education since the last general strike. My visit to the anthracite regions which border on the inferno followed that of Roosevelt and his ex-labor leader, John Mitchell [ex-President of United Mine Workers of America], who had visited the coal fields, so it is said, for the purpose of making some observations and investigations as to the condition of the slaves whose lifeblood is coined into profits that the few may riot in luxury.

When Roosevelt and his bodyguard arrived at Scranton they were received by the Bishop of Scranton, who wined and dined them and who remarked during the meal that it was the first time in his life he had had the honor of sitting between two Presidents. On the right of the bishop sat Mr. Roosevelt, friend of the workingman. It was he who, in order to show his friendship, sent 2,000 guns to Colorado to shoot the miners into subjection and, if they did not obey, blow their brains out, and who, while president of the United States, sent hundreds of messages to Congress, but never one in the interest of the working class. Not even when the explosion in the Monongah mine sent 700 souls, the souls of wage slaves, into the shadows and shocked the civilized world, did he find it in his sterile conscience to send a message to Congress demanding protection for the men whose labor feeds the mammoth maw of industry and warms the fireside of the world. Roosevelt’s real interest in the working class is only aroused when he seeks their votes. On the left of the bishop sat the $6,000 Civic Federation beauty [Mitchell], pet of the mine owners, decorated with diamonds, gifts from the coal barons.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for October 1910, Part II: Found in Akron, Ohio, Speaking on Socialism at Central Labor Union Hall

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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday November 13, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for October 1910, Part II:
–Found in Akron, Ohio, Speaking on Socialism at Central Labor Union Hall

From the Akron Beacon Journal of October 14, 1910:

“MOTHER JONES” A SPEAKER HERE
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Famous Character Addresses
Socialists and Others.

Mother Jones crpd, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910

“Mother Jones,” well known among the laboring people as a speaker of ability and a woman who understands the conditions of the laboring man, spoke at the Central Labor Union hall in the Walsh block for an hour and a half Thursday evening, although she had declared she was here for a rest. Her talk was mostly devoted to socialism, and she told of reforms along the line that she considered would benefit the condition of the masses. “Mother” Jones has been called the “Stormy Petrel of the Industrial Revolution.”

She has also been called the “Angel of the Coal Miners,” and has had many interesting experiences during her life of 76 years, and the fire of her eloquence seems to burn as brightly as ever. At one time she addressed a crowd of striking miners in West Virginia in defiance of the police force and state militia.

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[Photograph added.]

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