Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones: We stand in the dawn of war between the robbed and robbers.
that they never struck such a band of fighters
as the American workingmen.
-Mother Jones
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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.
From today's New York Times:
W. R. HEARST DENOUNCED
AT SOCIALIST MEETING
-----All Because His Newspapers
Didn't Advertise It.
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"MOTHER" JONES STIRRED UP
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All Hands Protest Against the "Murder"
(Meaning Trial for Murder)
of Idaho Miners.
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Police Inspector Walsh, Police Captain Lantry, of the East Fifty-first Street Station, and 1000 patrolmen were on hand last night when 2,000 men gathered in the Grand Central Palace, as "representatives of the trades' unions and the Socialist Party," to protest against the arrest of Moyer, Haywood, and other officers of the Western Federation of Miners and their deportation from Colorado to Idaho on the charge of conspiracy to murder ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho.
John C. Chase, the Socialist Mayor of Haverhill, Mass.; "Abe" Cahan, editor of Forward; "Mother" Jones, Solomon Fieldman, Benjamin Hanford, and other Socialists were on the stage with a band which poured out "La Marseillaise" with vigor.
There was no physical violence of consequence at the meeting, but there was plenty of violent language. Some of it was emitted when Mr. Fieldman, who was acting as Chairman, started a demonstration against W. R. Hearst.
Mr. Fieldman had started to raise funds to pay the expenses of the meeting, and remarked that the Hearst papers had not advertised it.
"We did not expect much from the other papers," declared Mr. Fieldman, "but we got much compared to what we got from Mr. Hearst"
"He's afraid!" cried a man well down in front.
"He's a traitor!" yelled another, amid a volume of hisses and hoots.
"Yes, he's worse than a traitor," cried back the Chairman, "for a man has first to be classed as a friend in order to be afterward classed as a traitor." Above more jeers and hoots another voice cried out:
"He's a stool pigeon!"
"He's not a stool pigeon," replied the Chairman. "He is a capitalist, but is not serving the capitalists. He is serving himself."
"Walk home if necessary," continued Mr. Fieldman, "but put something in the basket to help the campaign against the conspiracy of silence."
The Hearst condemnation was silenced only by the band.
Mr. Fieldman also took a rap at Mr. Mitchell [President of U. M. W. of A]. He warned his audience to beware of leaders who banqueted with the capitalistic class [at meetings of the National Civic Federation].
"The things the capitalistic class are for are the things the working people must stand against," he declared. "Those who are praised by the capitalists are the ones to be warned against. Moyer and Haywood are in danger of being hanged, murdered, and they are not praiseed by the capitalistic class. It is safe to suggest that detectives murdered the ex-Governor of Idaho to bring hurt to organized labor and labor class."
Morris Hillquitt [Hillquit] reviewed the murder of the Governor, the confession of Orchard, which brought about the arrest of the officers of the Western Federation of Miners, and the deportation of the prisoners to Idaho.
[He declared:]
These officials had to be deposed in a way to fasten infamy on the cause of labor...Moyer and Haywood are well known as being opposed to unlawful acts. It was through their efforts that the natural rage of the workingman was kept down. Cowardly murder is not the weapon of organized labor but rather of its enemies. The arrests of these men make a part of a cowardly, dastardly, cold-blooded plot on the part of capital against labor.
The speaker was cheered as he declared that the working class would not allow the "murder" of the Western Miners' officers on perjured testimony. Seven million workingmen, he declared, would know the reason why if these men died as the result of the charges against them.
Alexander Jonas, who was introduced as the grand old man of Socialism in this country, spoke in German.
[He said, waving his arm to the cordon of bluecoats:]
Police up stairs, police down stairs, police everywhere...and that is the stupidity of the Government. Are they here to protect us? Not lawyers, not money; only the protests of American workingmen will save the men in prison. Protest until the end of this drama. How it will end I know not.
"Mother" Jones wore an old-fashioned shirtwaist, a black skirt, and heavy shoes.
[She declared:]
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? The daughters of the capitalists are dancing on the hearts of the murdered children in the mills.
When your leaders come here and banquet with Belmont and the Civic Federation-
"Well, how about Gompers?" inquired a man in the audience.
[She replied:]
Gompers has a right to go and fill his stomach...if you want him to do so.
If you go to the ballot box bravely and combined you will find Roosevelt, who sent 9,000 guns against you, scratching his head and drawing his union card. If they force us to shoot they will find that they never struck such a band of fighters as the American workingmen.
Turning to the galleries, where most of the policemen were on duty, she called to the officers:
Take off your badges and buttons; don't bother about your jobs. Come with us.
Then the police ejected a man who had been circulating pamphlets roasting the Socialists for not letting United Workers in on the ground floor.
[Photographs added.]
SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Mar 14, 1906
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E5D91531E733A25757C1A...
IMAGES
Mother Jones, Miners Angel
http://www.biography.com/people/mother-jones-9357488
John C Chase, 1870-1937
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Chase
Morris Hillquit, 1869-1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Hillquit
Mother Jones, Appeal to Reason, Mar 11, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/image/66992169/
See also:
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma Florence Langdon
Denver, 1904-05
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon00.html
Appendix, April 1908
(Coverage of Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case)
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon29.html#dedication
The Darrow Collection, Haywood Trial
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/trials.php?tid=3
"Hellraisers Journal: NY Socialists Plan Mass Meeting for Moyer & Haywood;
Mother Jones to Speak" -by JayRaye
(For more on participants named above, scroll to bottom.)
http://caucus99percent.com/content/hellraisers-journal-ny-socialists-pla...
"Hellraisers Journal: John Mitchell Under Attack at UMW Convention,
Defends National Civic Federation" -by JayRaye
http://www.caucus99percent.com/content/hellraisers-journal-john-mitchell...
"Feb 23, 1903 Mother Jones and the Massacre of the Raleigh County Miners"
-by JayRaye
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/11/17/1256099/-Anti-Capitalist-Meet...
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Comments
Nowadays Cops seem to try to dehumanize themselves...
As much as possible. Presence is often hidden behind armor, masks, etc.
What's rather interesting in that is that it serves the purpose of making the cops anonymous, and thus free to pretend they don't actually have any agency in following their orders...
But Ironically, makes people MORE likely be willing to pull the trigger against them violence wise. (A faceless enemy is the dream of militaries since time immemorial. A inhuman enemy is one that can be killed without remorse. The more our cops hide, the more they end up ENCOURAGING violence against themselves.)
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
I like how Solomon Fieldman warned his audience
Sounds like an early DNC and it turned out to be a good warning. The National Civic Federation started off as a fairly good idea, get dialog between business and labor:
Of course it ended up becoming just another sell out to the corporatists society while waving the flag. (Sound familiar Democratic Party?)
Thanks again for the diary JayRaye
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
I love this too
Mother Jones was quite a woman
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
yep, very Mother Jones, she often reached out to cops & soldiers
I spent some time trying to track down who "united workers" were. My sense is that they were connected with the rival Socialist Labor Party. But who know's, and I didn't spend much time because whatever group it was could have been misnamed by The New York Times. They never took too much care with getting it right when it came to the names of radicals or their organizations.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
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