You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Monday August 31, 1903
Terre Haute , Indiana - Eugene Debs Visits with Mother Jones, Declares Populism Dead
Eugene Debs spent a quiet day at his home yesterday with Mother Jones, a very special guest indeed. We are unable to learn the content of their conversation, but regarding the recent Populist Party conference in Denver, Debs made this statement:
The committee on the exhumation of issues and galvanization of corpses reported both in a state of satisfactory preservation. There is no inspiration in a cadaver. Populism is an echo of the past, with gray whiskers on it. The Denver funeral procession and its Populist pallbearers present a sorry picture in contrast with the advancing, enthusiastic, confident, cheering, revolutionary hosts of International Socialism.
SOURCE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
(OH)
-of Sept 1, 1903
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Sunday August 31, 1913
New York City, New York - Secretary Wilson sends Stewart to meet with Rockefeller
In an attempt to head off a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the southern Colorado coalfields, Labor Secretary William B Wilson has sent Ethelbert Stewart to the New York City offices of John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller did not meet with Stewart but his legal representative, Starr J. Murphy, made it known that Mr. Rockefeller was not personally involved with matters in Colorado, and that that "matter was being handled" by the local executive officers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Meanwhile, the request by the UMW District 15 Policy Committee for a meeting to negotiate differences between the miners and the operators has been ignored by all but two small operators in the southern coalfields of Colorado.
SOURCE
Out of the Depths
Barron B. Beshoar
(1st ed 1942)
CO, 1980