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Tuesday January 25, 1916
From the Chicago Day Book: Report on an Interview with Mother Jones

Mother Jones was recently in the city of Chicago and was interviewed by a reporter on various topics. Monday's Day Book gave the following account of what Mother had to say:

"MOTHER" JONES CALLS FOR HAPPY HOMES
IN AMERICA
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There will be no strike in the soft coal fields if the present demand for soft coal keeps up, Mother Jones told a Day Book reporter Sunday. She says operators are expected to give in to the demands of the unions this spring. "Mother" left Chicago Sunday for Indianapolis, where last week she brought the two warring factions of United Mine Workers of America together.

[She says:]

The outlook is not so promising in anthracite fields...Operators are not expected to give in to demands of miners. Strike is likely.

Thousands of tons of coal have been stored away by railroads. Some industries have contracted for delivery for months in advance, fearing an industrial struggle.

Mother Jones is hopeful in general. She sees better wages and better working conditions for American workingman. She thinks the "little revolt" in Youngstown taught money kings a lesson. She expects more voluntary increases like 10 per cent raise in steel industry.

Mother Jones laughed at the European peace emissaries.

[She said:]

The absurd philosophy of it...Think of going to Europe to stop the war, while back here our "kings" are yelling for preparedness. That bunch of welfare workers should have stopped in Boston and called on the society there is an effort to stop child labor. They would have done more good and spent less money.

As for preparedness, why the articles being printed by some of the papers are infamous. Did Lincoln shout preparedness? Let this country prepare happy homes before they talk of defending them.

The industrial relations commission is the best thing Wilson ever started and I think he knew just what was going to happen when he created it. Frank P. Walsh, Basil Manly and George West are the real authors of the report which has shocked the United States.

"Mother" highly praised Walsh.

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[Photograph added.]

SOURCE
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jan 24, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/77800837/

IMAGE
Mother Jones, Wilmington (OH) Daily News, Jan 24, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/62076105/

See also:

United Mine Workers Journal
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-Jan 20, 1916
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=NQpQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcove...
Note: This issue of the UMWJ contains the reports made to the delegates of the 1916 Convention (in progress in Indianapolis) by President White, Vice-President Hayes, and Secretary-Treasurer Green.

From the Sept 1916 issue of the American Federationists:
Report by Green on the contracts that were finally negotiated
in the anthracite and bituminous coal fields:
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=ZaZHAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcove...

Soft coal/bituminous coal and hard coal/anthracite coal explained:
http://geology.com/rocks/coal.shtml

"Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Storms Stage at United Mine
Workers Convention, Ends Bitter Debate" by JayRaye
http://caucus99percent.com/content/hellraisers-journal-mother-jones-stor...

C99 Tag: Youngstown Steel Strike of 1915-16
http://caucus99percent.com/tags/youngstown-steel-strike-1915-16

Women Peace Activists During World War I
https://wwionline.org/articles/women-peace-activists-during-world-war-i/

Preparedness Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_Movement

Child labor in Massachusetts: annual report of
the Massachusetts Child Labor Committee.
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100563556

Commission on Industrial Relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Industrial_Relations

The Manly Report
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=WdseAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcove...

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