Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for January 1903, Part III: Speaks at Meeting of Indianapolis Central Labor Union Against Stag Banquets

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Quote Mother Jones, God s Cause, Scranton Tb p1, Aug 7, 1902—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday February 16, 1903
Mother Jones News Round-Up for January 1903, Part III
-Speaks at Meeting of Indianapolis Central Labor Union

From The Los Angeles Record of January 27, 1903:

“MOTHER JONES” TO THE MINERS

Mother Jones, Socialist Spirit p19, Aug 1902

Mother Jones, the woman champion of the United Mine Workers, stirred their convention in Indianapolis by a speech denouncing the use of the pistol in labor disputes. She said:

You old gray beards are going to see a new epoch. You have been crying that we are in a country without liberty, but you have not gone out and fought to get it. That you are going to do and you won’t use pistol to get it either. We will shoot such men as Judge Jackson off the bench, and it won’t be with a gun.

Good for “Mother Jones.”

She is talking Americanism straight from the shoulder. No one can charge this white-haired old woman with incendiarism when she sticks to the ballot box.

The pistol is a relic of barbarism-a barbarism from which the Anglo-Saxon has not yet emerged.

Capital is shrewd. Sometimes it employes “private detectives,” not so much to guard property, as to provoke violence. The strikers oppose pistol to pistol. They lose public sympathy and the strike.

“Mother Jones” knows this and the miners are coming to know it, as is attested by their applause at the utterance.

Two so-called gospels have distinguished the last decade or so, each diametrically opposed to the other:

Nietache’s gospel is the gospel of brute force.
Tolstoi’s gospel is comprehended in “Resist not evil.”

So long as men and women are as they are either of these doctrines run to its legitimate extreme is absurd.

We must resist evil, not by brute force, but by education, agitation and finally, and forcefully, at the ballot box.

That is civilization.

That is the evolution of society.

[Photograph added.]

From The Indianapolis Journal of January 27, 1903:

CENTRAL LABOR UNION
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RESOLUTION FAVORING SUNDAY
BASEBALL ADOPTED.
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Women Object to Being Excluded
from the Banquet to Miners
To-Morrow Night.
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The Central Labor Union at a meeting held last night, adopted a resolution favoring the passage of the bill now before the Legislature legalizing Sunday baseball. The resolution was introduced by John L. Feltman, who spoke briefly in explanation of it.

President George A. Custer was absent last night and the chair was occupied by Vice President Edgar A. Perkins.

[…..]

The report of the committee, which arranged the miners’ banquet to be given Thursday night, by William F. Ewald precipitated a storm. The report described the programme of entertainment and furnished the names of the men who will serve on the committees to entertain the miners and operators. It concluded with the statement that the banquet was to be for the men delegates only, and the women delegates to the body, as well as the women in the Label League, would be entertained subsequently in a little affair to be planned for them. Delegates immediately objected to this and declared that women ought to be admitted and they could see no reason for their exclusion. After a long discussion of the merits and demerits of the last banquet and the possibility of a recurrence of several unpleasant features, “Mother” Jones, who was a guest of the evening, made a talk which smoothed over the obstacles to peace, and the report of the committee was concurred in. The women were still unsatisfied, however, and several of them voiced their disapproval by saying that they thought it was a shame that they could not go to the banquet.

“Mother” Jones was given a chance to speak during the meeting, and quickly drifted into socialism……

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for December 1911, Part I: Found in Berkeley, California, Receiving News of McNamaras’ Confession

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Hellraisers Journal – Monday January 15, 1912
Mother Jones News Round-Up for December 1911, Part I
Found in Berkeley, California; Learns of Confession of McNamara Brothers

From the Richmond (California) Daily Independent of December 1, 1911:

MOTHER JONES TO SPEAK.
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Mother Jones, Small, LA Rec p4, Dec 21, 1911

Mother Jones, the mother of the working men, will speak at the Building Trades Temple on Fourth and Macdonald avenue, Friday evening at 8:15. Her subject will be “McNamara Defense.” The public is cordially invited to attend.

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From the Richmond Daily Independent of December 2,1911:

MCNAMARA CONFESSION
CREATES COMMOTION
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At First Held Ridiculous Here. But Mother Jones
Meeting at Trades Hall Is Postponed–Many
See Political Move in Los Angeles Election.

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The blood-red extra of the Oakland Tribune last evening set the Richmond world ablaze. Its headlines, in letters inches long, read “J. B. McNamara Pleads Guilty,” “Admits Slaying Haggerty,” and “Brother Admit Dynamiting.” The Trib had little else save that it claimed that J. B. McNamara would be given life imprisonment and that his brother, J. J. McNamara under agreement with state, would receive fifteen years.

[…..]

The union labor forces of Richmond and the sympathizers with the McNamaras found themselves in queer position with the appearance of the evening papers. Mother Jones was announced to address the Richmond people at the Building Trades Council hall on Fourth street on the matter of aiding in the defense of the accused men.

Quite a body of people assembled to listen to the famous woman, but after a short wait, it was announced by the officials of the council that Mother Jones would not be present, as she was waiting in Berkeley for later and more reliable information from the southern city. There was nothing else to be done but postpone the meeting, and it was done. At a later date, should tho conditions at Los Angeles be different than reported last night, Mother Jones may appear here…..

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones for July 1901, Part II: Reportedly Visited Chicago as Freind of Servant Girls; Organizing Efforts Ongoing

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Quote re Mother Jones, None too low or high, Ipl Jr p3, Jan 21, 1901—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday August 10, 1901
Mother Jones News Round-Up for July 1901, Part II
Reportedly Visited Chicago as Friend of Servant Girls

From the Washington Evening Star of July 6, 1901:

SERVANT GIRLS TO FORM A UNION.
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“Mother” Jones of Miners’ Strike Fame
the Organizer.

MJ in Chg, Montpelier Vt Argus Patriot p4, July 10, 1901

CHICAGO, July 6.-The Record-Herald says:

“Mother” Jones, who did so much to encourage the coal miners in their strike in Pennsylvania a year ago, holding meetings and addressing them wherever a few could be got together, and who since has assisted the striking silk workers in New Jersey and the carpet weavers in Philadelphia to stand out for their demands, has been in Chicago the past few weeks assisting the committee of the Women’s Trade Union Label League to organize the servant girls. As a result of the work done by the committee with the aid of “Mother” Jones, several hundred servant girls have signified their intention of becoming charter members of the first servant girls’ union of Chicago, which will be formed on Thursday night.

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From The Chicago Daily News of July 11, 1901:

COMES TO HELP DOMESTICS
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“Mother” Jones Will Lend a Hand
in Forming a Union.

Promoters of the Chicago Domestics’ union are surrounding their actions with an air of secrecy. “Mother” Jones, a union worker with a national reputation, who arrived in Chicago a short time ago, it is said, has rendered valuable assistance to the local organizers, and a meeting has been scheduled for tonight at the Masonic temple.

The promoters of the union, however, refuse to say just where the meeting will be held, and it is rumored it will not be at the temple, but at some secluded spot on the west side.

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Hellraisers Journal: Whereabouts and Doings of Mother Jones for September 1910, Part II: Found Speaking in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio

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Quote Mother Jones, Corporations Wreck n Maim, Cnc Pst p9, Sept 26, 1910———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday October 15, 1910
Mother Jones News Round-Up for September 1910, Part II:
-Found in Ohio Speaking in Cincinnati and Columbus

Mother Jones, WDC Tx p5, June 18, 1910From the Wilkes-Barre Evening News
of September 23, 1900:

“Mother” Jones after recuperating her health in Hazleton, returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, today.

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From The Cincinnati Post
of September 23, 1910:

‘MOTHER JONES’ TO BE SPEAKER
AT OUTING

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Mother Jones,” known as the “Angel of the Miners,” will address the Woman’s Union Label League at an outing at Chester Park Sunday. Mrs. May Wood Simons, one of the editors of the Chicago Daily Socialist; E. L. Hitchens, Wm. Tateman and Mrs. Etta Knatt Behrman also will speak.

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