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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: Members of the United Mine Workers of Defend the Western Federation of Miners


There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday May 22, 1906
To The Indianapolis News: Miners of U. M. W. Defend W. F. M.

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A letter written to The Indianapolis News, signed by members of the United Mine Workers of America, defends the Western Federation of Miners which was so viciously attacked recently by The News. The letter was found published in the Socialist section of a newspaper out of Salem, Oregon.

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: Strain, overwork, and poverty sending millions of American workers to early graves.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday April 21, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: Public Health and Poverty

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Weak for want of food, by Lewis Hine.
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Hellraisers Journal: Little Children of the Poor Securing Wealth from Mine and Mill

Little children of the poor,
Pearls for trampling swine,
Cast and mired that they secure
The wealth from mill and mine.
-Ellis B Harris
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Sunday April 16, 1916
From the United Mine Workers Journal: Little Child of the Mines

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WE NEVER FORGET: The "Gallant Boy," Don MacGregor

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

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

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: Evansville Press Reports Villa’s Firing Squad Killed Don MacGregor at Minaca

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for living.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday April 5, 1916
From the Evansville Press: Don MacGregor Died by Firing Squad at Minaca

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