Mother Mary Harris Jones

Hellraisers Journal: The Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones, Sent on Mission to Arizona, May 1916


My address is like my shoes.
It travels with me.
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday June 7, 1916
Mother Jones Travels From Chicago to Arizona with Stop in Kansas

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Hellraisers Journal: The Whereabouts & Doings of Mother Jones, Socialist Party Organizer, for May 1906


You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday June 6, 1906
Mother Jones Tours Illinois for Socialist Party of America

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Today Hellraisers pauses to catch up with Mother Jones and to document her whereabouts and doings for the month of May 1906. We find Mother, at the end of May, on tour as a National Organizer for the Socialist Party of America. The photograph at right was taken by Bertha Howell, who is now married to William Mailly, former National Secretary of Socialist Party.

Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Found at Home in the Hearts of the American People.

My address is like my shoes.
It travels with me.
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday May 16, 1916
From The Arizona Republican: A Letter Forwarded For Mother Jones

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones: "I try to go, wherever there is a chance for a good fight against high-class burglars."

I try to go, wherever there is a chance for a good fight
against high-class burglars, and I am kept
pretty busy most of the time.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 15, 1916
Chanute, Kansas - Mother Jones Passing Through on Way to Kansas City

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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones on "The Big Stick" and the Western Federation of Miners

Every one of the Western Federation of Miners
ought to be hung,
they are nothing but a gang of criminals.
-President "Big Stick" Roosevelt
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Wednesday May 9, 1906
From Washington, D. C.: News on the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Case

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Hellraisers Journal: John M O'Neill: "We want a civilization where man will no longer be on his knees."


The agitator through all the centuries of time
has blazed the trail for a higher
and grander civilization.
-John M O'Neill
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Saturday April 1, 1916
Indianapolis, Indiana - John M. O'Neill Address Convention of United Mine Workers

Hellraisers Journal: Part II: "Mother Jones & Her Methods -Personality & Power of This Aged Woman"


I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hellraiser!
-Mother Jones

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Thursday March 22, 1906
From The Boston Herald Archives: Report from 1904 on the Early Life of Mother Jones

The correspondent who travelled recently to West Virginia with Mother Jones, and whose report of that trip was featured in Tuesday's edition of Hellraisers, has reminded us of a similar report which was published in the Boston Herald's "Sunday Herald" of September 11, 1904. Hellraisers published part one of that article yesterday, continues with part two today and will republish part three in tomorrow's edition.

From the Sunday Herald of September 11, 1904:

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Hellraisers Journal: "Mother Jones & Her Methods -Personality & Power of This Aged Woman"

I want you to see yourselves as you are, brothers and sisters,
and to think if it is not time you took pity
on yourselves and upon each other.
-Mother Jones

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Wednesday March 21, 1906
From The Boston Herald Archives: Report from 1904 on Mother Jones in West Virginia

The correspondent who travelled recently to West Virginia with Mother Jones, and whose report of that trip was featured in yesterday's edition of Hellraisers, has reminded us of a similar report which was published in the Boston Herald's "Sunday Herald" of September 11, 1904. Hellraisers will republish that entire article over the next few days, beginning today with part one:

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

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.

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