You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday January 13, 1904
Denver, Colorado - Colorado F. of L. Convention Requests Senate Investigation
The Special Convention of the C. F. of L., now in progress, has adopted the following resolution which has been forwarded to Senator Patterson:
Whereas, The convention, representing 35,000 members of organized labor in the State of Colorado, has been called to take cognizance of industrial conditions and the course followed by Governor Peabody.
Resolved, That the situation in this state is so grave that the facts should be laid before the nation in an authoritative manner. To that end we urge the immediate passage by the United States Senate of Senator T. M. Patterson's resolution, directing the senate committee on judiciary, or a sub-committee thereof, to come to Colorado and make a searching inquiry into the conditions existing in this state. Organized labor courts an investigation, and we feel sure that we are voicing the sentiments of every labor organization in the state when we promise the senate committee our hearty co-operation
J. C. SULLIVAN, President
The Convention continues today, and a resolution from Charles Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners, will be brought to the floor regarding the Military Despotism now in effect in the strike zones of Telluride and Cripple Creek.
SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
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Tuesday January 13, 1914
From The New York Times: "State Troopers Seize Her on Her Return to Trinidad"
Mother Jones at the Ludlow Tent Colony
The Colorado Militia Wants No More Of This
Newspapers across the country are reporting on the arrest of Mother Jones in Trinidad, yesterday, by the Colorado Militia under command of General Chase and with the full approval of Governor Ammons. We offer this example from
The New York Times:
"MOTHER" JONES ARRESTED
TRINIDAD, Col., Jan. 12-"Mother" Jones, strike leader, who was deported from the Southern Colorado coal fields Jan. 4 by the militia, returned to Trinidad this morning from Denver. As soon as her presence was learned by the military authorities she was arrested and taken to the San Rafael Hospital, where she was held a prisoner and was permitted to see no visitors.
She left the train at the outskirt of Trinidad and later appeared at a local hotel. She was arrested by a detail of State troops, hurried out of the hotel, placed in an automobile, and whirled through the streets with a cavalry escort galloping at full speed in front and behind the machine.
Several hundred coal mine strikers lined the streets and cheered wildly while "Mother" Jones waved her hand in response.
DENVER, Jan. 12-Gov. Ammons tonight issued a statement in which he assumed full responsibility for the arrest of "Mother" Jones by the military and declared that she would be held until such time as she saw fit to give her promise to leave the strike zones of the State.
We expect that Mother will be held for a long time, as we do not expect her to give any such promise to the Governor.
SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-of Jan 13, 1914
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Photo: Mother Jones at Ludlow
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Monday January 13, 2014
More on the arrest of Mother Jones by the Colorado National Guard
I like this description of these events by Atkinson:
On January 12, she set out for Trinidad again. [Having been deported from there earlier in the month.] Avoiding the Denver train station, where detectives were posted, she made her way into the yard where the trains were prepared for the next run. It was closed to the public, and only the railroad workers themselves ever went there. Mary knew they were sympathetic with the miners, and she soon found a brakeman who showed her to the train which was scheduled to depart for Trinidad that afternoon. When it pulled out, she was resting comfortably in a berth, with no one but the conductor aware she was on board.
Early the next morning, during a short stop just north of Trinidad, Mary got off and walked into town, thus avoiding the detectives at the Trinidad station. But by mid-afternoon, the militia knew she was back. This time, General Chase, calling her a "contentious witch," had her arrested and placed under military confinement in the Mt. San Rafael Hospital on the outskirts of the city. The hospital was run by the Sisters of Charity, but outside Mary's room military guards kept a twenty-four-hour watch.
Note: Atkinson places her arrest on the 13th while the
Times gives the 12th as the date of both her arrival and her arrest in Trinidad.
SOURCE
Mother Jones
The Most Dangerous Woman In America
-by Linda Atkinson
NY, 1978
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The Death of Mother Jones-Gene Autry
O'er the hills and through the valley
In ev'ry mining town;
Mother Jones was ready to help them,
She never turned them down.
On front with the striking miners
She always could be found;
And received a hearty welcome
In ev'ry mining town.