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Hellraisers Journal – Friday March 14, 1919
Mother Jones News for February 1919
-Found in Speaking to the Miners of District 17 in West Virginia
From The West Virginian of February 4, 1919:
MOTHER JONES COMING BACK
TO THIS COAL FIELD
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Will Address a Mass Meeting
at Phillippi Sunday.
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“Mother” Jones, the miners’ friend, will soon be back in the Fairmont region according to the information received today by C. F. Keeney, president of District 17, United Mine Workers, who is now at the local office in Fairmont. “Mother” Jones will arrive in Charleston on Friday from California, where she interceded for Mooney before Governor Stephens, in the case that has attracted wide attention in labor circles. “Mother” Jones was sent to the Coast by the Illinois Federation of Labor.
While in the Fairmont region she will address three or four meetings in the interest of the miners in the Belington section, including a meeting at Junior mine. She will address a mass meeting of miners at Philippi on Sunday.
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Three Mass Meetings.
Three mass meetings are scheduled by the United Mine Workers for Sunday. In the afternoon “Mother” Jones will speak at Philippi.
At 1 o’clock in the afternoon President C. F. Keeney will address a mass meeting at Roaring Creek Junction.
A mass meeting at Junior mine will be addressed by Sam Ballantyne, an international organizer……
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