Wednesday June 6, 1906
Mother Jones Tours Illinois for Socialist Party of America

Today Hellraisers pauses to catch up with Mother Jones and to document her whereabouts and doings for the month of May 1906. We find Mother, at the end of May, on tour as a National Organizer for the Socialist Party of America. The photograph at right was taken by Bertha Howell, who is now married to William Mailly, former National Secretary of Socialist Party.

Wednesday May 31, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: The Villa Expedition

Monday May 28, 1906
Report from Boise: Conclusion of Five Part Series by Jacob Waldeck

Thursday May 11, 1916
Chicago, Illinois - America Union Workers Plead for Life of Irish Rebel

In a meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor this past Sunday, a resolution was passed that a message should be sent to London making a plea for the life of the Irish Rebel, James Connolly. Connolly is well known and much respected by the trade unionists and Socialists of Chicago, having once been a resident of the city where he was active in both movements on behalf of the working class.

Thursday May 10, 1906
From the International Socialist Review: A. M. Simons on Justice for W. F. of M.

Striking union miners being deported from Cripple Creek..

Tuesday May 2, 1916
From The New York Times: Thousands March Singing Marseillaise

Monday May 1, 1916
New York City - Locked Out Garment Workers to March up Fifth Avenue

Garment Workers of New York City
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Thursday April 19, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Idaho Frame-Up, Part II

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Wednesday March 14, 1906
New York, New York - Socialists and Trade Unionists Rally to Defense of Moyer and Haywood

Two thousand Socialists and trade unionists, watched over by one thousand bluecoats, gathered in the city of New York last night to protest the arrests and attempted judicial murder of Charles Moyer and Bill Haywood, officers of the Western Federation of Miners. One of the speakers was Mother Jones who stated:

We stand in the dawn of the world's greatest war...It will be the war between the robbed and the robbers, and the robbers will go down. When they talk of hanging Moyer and Haywood, now why didn't they talk of hanging the men who shot down innocent working men in Virginia? Why don't they talk of hanging the commercial pirates who are murdering the little children in the mills of the South?.....

If they force us to shoot they will find that they never struck such a band of fighters as the American workingmen.

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Tuesday March 13, 1906
From The New York Times: Socialists Rally Behind Moyer and Haywood

From the Times of March 12th:

SAYS SOCIALISTS MUST ARM.
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Ex-Mayor of Haverhill Wants Them to
Fight to Save Moyer and Haywood.

A appeal was made at yesterday's meeting of the Central Federated Union By John C. Chase, Former Socialist Mayor of Haverhill, Mass., for co-operation with the Socialists in protesting against the punishment of President Moyer, Secretary Haywood, and other officers of the Western Federation of Miners, who were arrested in connection with a number of murders, including the assassination of ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho. These men are now in jail in Boise City. Capitalists and corporations were denounced impartially by Chase. He said that the unions at a meeting last Thursday decided on a perpetual agitation on behalf of the imprisoned men and asked to attend the first conference to push along the agitation which will begin in the Grand Central Palace to-morrow. Referring to Moyer and Haywood, he said:

If these two men are hanged, and if any man in this body, or any other body of the kind, is not then willing to shoulder a gun and fight for his class, he is a coward.