Hellraisers Journal: “Educate and Agitate!” Mother Jones Speaks at Labor Day Picnic in Evansville, Indiana

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The miners need no angel.
They are living in hell
and they want to raise hell.
-Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday September 6, 1916
Evansville, Indiana – Labor Day Speech of Mother Jones

From the Evansville Courier of September 5, 1916:

WILSON AND KERN LABOR’S FRIENDS
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Mother Jones Tells 10,000, Gathered for Labor Day,
Their Duty to Re-elect Them
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HAVE PROVED THEIR WORTH
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“Educate and Agitate” Is Her Remedy to Bring About
Further Social Reforms
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Tells of Her Work in West Virginia and Colorado
in Behalf of Miners
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