Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Will Lead Miners to Bullpen or Coal Mine, with Arms or Armless

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 12:54pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

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Sunday January 7, 1906
From The Miners Magazine: Letter to William Johnson, Mine Superintendent

The following letter was published in the January 4th edition of The Miners Magazine, official organ of the Western Federation of Miners.

New York
December 15, 1905

William Johnson,
Supt. Vivian Coal and Mining Co.,
Jacksonville, Ind.
Dear Sir:

I have a letter from you under date of December 15th, asking for terms for furnishing men to coal mines. Allow me to say that the terms depend entirely upon how many men you want and what you want them for. We have a great number of able bodied men here who are more than willing to go anywhere and men who are not afraid of the police, militia, court injunctions, or government interference in any form. In fact each and every one of them can and will be vouched for by "Mother Jones" whose guarantee should satisfy any coal company in Indiana or elsewhere. If you will state how many you want and just when you want them, also whether they are destined for the bull pens or coal mines, we will be pleased to give your needs our prompt attention. In fact we will be willing to work overtime.

Truly yours,
Secretary Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Superintendents.

P. S. Fortunately, "Mother Jones" has just come into the office and she gives me her personal word that if you want her to head the procession she will gladly come. She would like to know whether the men are to come with arms or armless.

[Photograph added.]

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SOURCE
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M. Steel
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAAJ

IMAGE
Mother Mary Harris Jones, Miners Angel
http://www.biography.com/people/mother-jones-9357488

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Mother Jones & The Miners Magazine

Mother Jones was much beloved by the Western Federation of Miners and her name often appeared in the pages of The Miners Magazine. Sadly, I could not find online copies of Miners Magazine for the years 1904-1908, but I will continue the search. Access to this source will be much missed in the coming months as we cover the Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case.

The closest I could come to 1906 can be found at the two links below, with an example of a cover from each link. Use the links and search each source with "Mother Jones" for further study:

Miners Magazine Cover, WFM, August 1903
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=dzotAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcove...