Coal Miners

WE NEVER FORGET: Don MacGregor, Miners' Hero Who Lost His Life In Freedom’s Cause

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 12:54pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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WE NEVER FORGET
Don MacGregor-28
Who lost his life in freedom's cause at
Miñaca, Chihuahua, México,
March 28, 1916
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Hellraisers Journal: Illustrations & Report from the Anthracite Hills of Pennsylvania by Robert Minor

Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 04/12/2016 - 12:58pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday April 12, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Robert Minor: "In the Anthracite Hills"

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Travels West Virginia with Her Old Black Bag

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 03/20/2016 - 12:55pm

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

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Tuesday March 20, 1906
New York, New York - A Reporter Tells of Travels with Mother Jones in West Virginia

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From New York City, a reporter describes, for the Pittsburgh Evening Leader of Kansas, a journey with Mother Jones throughout West Virginia. The reporter describes a similar journey with Mother in 1901, back before Mother's break with John Mitchell, while she was still employed as an organizer for the United Mine Workers. Who sponsored this trip, the reporter does not say, nor is the identity of the reporter revealed, but what is made obvious is the love of the coal miners and their wives for Mother Jones, the Miners' Angel.