Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Storms Stage at United Mine Workers Convention, Ends Bitter Debate
Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 01/21/2016 - 12:56pmWe must be together; our masters are joined together
and we must do the same thing.
- Mother Jones
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Friday January 21, 1916
Indianapolis, Indiana - Mother Jones Puts an End to Bitter Debate at Miners' Convention
Newspapers across the nation are describing the dramatic confrontation at the United Mine Workers Convention when Mother Jones arrived to find the delegates embroiled in a bitter debate and hurling bricks at one another. The Tacoma Times declared:
OLD MOTHER JONES STORMS CONVENTION
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 20,-Mother Jones stampeded the convention of the United Mine workers today with an address of unpolished oratory.
She raised 1,500 delegates to a fury of enthusiasm and forced Duncan McDonald to the platform to shake hands with President White, ending a bitter struggle between the two which threatened to disrupt the organization for years.
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