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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday January 7, 1902
Mother Jones News Round-Up for December 1901, Part I
Found in Old Virginia Organizing Miners for U. M. W. of A.
From the Wilkes-Barre Daily News of December 2, 1901:
NONE WILL GO.
One of the agents who has been endeavoring to secure miners to go to Stonege [Stonega, near Norton] , Va., told a reporter Saturday that his mission was unsuccessful. Not one miner of ability consented to go.
Mother Jones is now at Stonege organizing the miners. She is not meeting with much success, but the fiery little woman never knew defeat.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Reynoldsville [Pennsylvania] Star of December 4, 1901:
Mother” Jones Friday Night.
“Mother” Jones, of Chicago, organizer for the U. M. W. of A., will deliver an address in Centennial hall Friday evening of this week, December fifth, in the interests of the Trades Unions of Reynoldsvllle. Everybody is invited to attend this meeting, as it will be a public meeting.
From The Richmond Dispatch [Virginia] of December 4, 1901:
MINERS’ STRIKE AT NORTON.
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The Situation in Wise County…WISE, VA. , December 2.-(Special.)-The strike at the mines of the Norton Coal, Company, Norton, Va., still continues. One hundred and fifty men are out.
The strike is said to have been caused by the action of the superintendent in discharging several employees who had joined the recently-organized union at that/mine.
A general strike in this section of the coal-fields is thought to be imminent. It is almost the sole topic of conversation around the mining towns. It is said that the operators at the other mines will dispute the right of the miners to organize, as the Norton Coal Company has done.
On the other hand, the general meeting of the union at Huntington, W. Va., ratified the Norton strike, thus showing their determination to organize in these fields.
In view of these facts, it. is hardly probable that a strike can be avoided…
From the Reynoldsville [Pennsylvania] Star of December 11, 1901:
“Mother” Jones, the labor organizer, who was to have delivered an address in Centennial hall last Friday evening, was called to Old Virginia on account of labor troubles there and could not come to this place. Thomas Haggerty said to representative of THE STAR that he expected to arrange to have “Mother” Jones come to Reynoldsvllle the latter part of this month.
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