You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Wednesday July 15, 1903
Elizabeth, New Jersey - Mother Jones and the Industrial Army Arriving Soon in Elizabeth
The Army marched the eleven miles from New Brunswick to Rahway yesterday, coming by way of Metuchen. In Rahway they were provided a large room in the Rahway Inn by H. C. Wilson, owner of the inn. Mother Jones arrived by train accompanied by Charles Sweeney, Chief Marshal of the Army, and by John Loprez, First Lieutenant. Three women are also traveling with Mother: Mrs. Sweeney, Mrs. Hanson, and Mrs. Clinton.
The Army now consists of the Industrial Band and about thirty-five Crusaders. They were treated to shaves by local union barbers.
Mother gave a speech before 2000 supporters. She insisted that a public aroused on the issue of child labor would result in:
Blessings not only to the children but to the whole nation.
The Army has been on the road marching since early this morning and are expected to arrive in Elizabeth soon. Mother Jones and the women will arrive by train. While in Elizabeth, the Crusaders will be hosted by the Socialist Party of Elizabeth.
SOURCES
The New York Times
-of July 15, 1903
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The New York Times
-of July 16, 1903
http://select.nytimes.com/...
Boston Daily Globe
-of July 15, 1903
Mother Jones
The Miners' Angel
-by Dale Fetherling
So IL U Press, 1974
The Children's Crusade Summary
Day 8: Tuesday July 14, 1903
From New Brunswick, NJ
To Rahway, NJ
(Use with "get directions" on google maps to follow general route of march.)
Note: accounts vary as to when the Industrial Army departed New Brunswick. Some papers report that they left for Metuchen on Monday, others on Tuesday. It appears that they started out on Monday, then turned back due to the heat, and, therefore left New Brunswick on Tuesday.
Tuesday July 15, 1913
From The New York Times: President Wilson Helps to Avert Railroad Strike
Washington D.C., July 14-President Wilson helped today to avert the threatened strike of nearly 100,000 trainmen and conductors on the Eastern railroad, when, after a conference at the White House, representatives of the railroad companies and brotherhoods agreed with legislative leaders on terms of the Newland bill, amending the Erdman Arbitration act and promised to submit their differences to adjudication under the amended law.
SOURCE
The New York Times
-of July 15, 1913
http://select.nytimes.com/...
Monday July 15, 2013
China, India, Pakistan - Child Labor & American Companies
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
International Labor Rights Forum/Child and Force Labor
http://www.laborrights.org/...
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
NOTE: a few edits have been made since diary was pub'd. Major Computer Crash slowed things down this AM. The old gal (computer) just ain't what she used to be. Saving up for a new one. The names I called her probably didn't help either.
-J