Hellraisers Journal: From the United Mine Workers Journal: Miners’ Strike Non-Union Coke Region at Connellsville, Pennsylvania

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Quote Mother Jones, Un-Christ-Like Greed, IN DlyT Ipls p1, July 15, 1920—————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday July 16, 1922
The Miners’ Strike in the Non-Union Coke Regions of Connellsville, Pennsylvania

From the United Mine Workers Journal of July 15, 1922:

Connellsville Coal Strike, UMWJ Cv, Tent Home, July 15, 1922

Tent home of an evicted miner at Tower Hill, No. 2,
in the Connellsville Coke Region, Pennsylvania

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Miners’ Union Has Brought the Light of Freedom
to the Non-Union Coke Region around Connellsville

By VAN A. BITTNER, Personal Representative of President John L. Lewis
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July finds the 40,000 miners in the coke region of Pennsylvania more determined than ever to win the great industrial struggle in which they are engaged against the might coke corporations headed by Frick and Rainey. It is, indeed, the most stupendous struggle that has ever taken place in any non-union coal field in this country and is only over-shadowed by the gigantic national strike of the coal miners of America. After thirty years of industrial slavery, without a single attempt being made to free themselves from the yoke of bondage, these miners and their families have awakened to a realization of their hopes and dreams of engaging with the organized miners of America in their battle for industrial freedom. They have implicit faith in the United Mine Workers of America and are in this fight to do or die.

The real spirit of unionism is found here. These men and their families are not asking for any relief. They realize the fact that the men who made the United Mine workers of America did so by sacrificing their very lives for the principles upon which our great union stands, and these men are willing to and are going forward, realizing it is the opportunity of a lifetime and they are making the best of it…..

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for January 1911: Found in Western Pennsylvania and at Columbus, Ohio, for Miners’ Convention

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Quote Mother Jones, Hell, Greensburg PA Jan 14, AtR p2, Jan 28, 1911———-

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 19, 1911
Mother Jones News Round-Up for January 1911, Part I:
–Found in Pennsylvania and at Columbus, Ohio, for Miners’ Convention

From the Uniontown Morning Herald of January 9, 1911:

Mother Jones Speaks in Brownsville, Pennsylvania

Mother Jones, ed Cameron Co PA Prs p1, Apr 7, 1910

BROWNSVIILE, Jan. 8.-Mother Jones, the noted labor advocate, lectured in the Grand opera house, Sunday afternoon, to an audience of about 300. She advanced a strong plea in behalf of the striking miners of Westmoreland county. Her description of the starving miners, encamped upon the mountain sides, brought substantial results in a financial way, at the close of her address Mother Jones states that the coke regions of Fayette county will be the next field for organization.

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