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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday August 11, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1901, Part III
Found Organizing Coal Miners in West Virginia
From the Baltimore Sun of July 24, 1901:
APPEALING TO MINERS
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“Mother” Jones Arrives In The West Virginia Field.(Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.)
Morgantown, W. Va., July 23.-The organization known as the United Mine Workers of America will make a desperate effort this summer to bring all the West Virginia miners now outside of their organization into it.
Thomas Burker [Burke], Edward Cahill, John H. Walker and Mary Jones, known as “Mother” Jones, arrived from Indianapolis yesterday and will begin their work here……
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From West Virginia’s Shepherdstown Register of July 25, 1901:
John Jay Jackson Jr., Injunction Judge
At Charleston Tuesday Judge Jackson made perpetual a temporary injunction that he had granted restraining the striking coal miners in the Flat Top region [Pocahontas Coalfield] from interfering with the operation of the mines, and he held for the action of the grand jury certain miners who are said to have fired on United States officers. The Judge severely denounced the miners.
The United Mine Workers will get “Mother Jones” to come to West Virginia to help the cause of the strikers.
It will soon be demonstrated, however, that Judge Jackson is a bigger man than “Mother Jones.”
From The Indianapolis Journal of July 30, 1901:
Mother Jones and Eugene Debs Send Greetings
to Socialist Unity Convention
Numerous telegrams were received from sympathizers of the party throughout the country, among them being one from Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the Socialists [those Socialists associated with the Social Democratic Party of America], and “Mother” Jones, the stanch supported of organized labor.
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At the opening of the afternoon session [January 25th, United Mine Workers Convention], Henry J. Skifington [Skeffington], of the Boot and Shoe Makers’ Union, addressed the convention and urged the delegates to buy none but union made shoes. Following his address, “Mother” Jones spoke. The work of Mrs. Jones among the miners is known to every miner in the country and her appearance was the signal for loud and prolonged applause. She addressed the delegates as “fellow-toilers.” She said the miners had wisely chosen the month of January for holding their convention, as it is the intermediate month between the closing of the year and the opening of spring. It was appropriate, she said, to use this opportunity to look behind and to the front.
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