You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday July 22, 1904
From the Deseret Evening News: 117 Union Men Arrested in Cripple Creek District
From last evening's
Deseret Evening News of Great Salt Lake City:
PORTLAND MINE CLOSED
Shut Down Consequence of Action of the Military
Victor, Colo. July 21-The Portland mine is closed again in consequence of the action of the military authorities. The mine was giving employment to about 500 men. Squads of soldiers have arrested 117 of these, including the entire mechanical force at the three working shafts. This comprised engineers, firemen, master mechanics and skilled men in other departments. The men thus summarily removed from their labors are accused no crime, the only accusation being that they refused to sacrifice their membership in the Western Federation of Miners and take out Mine Owners association working cards.
After being tried before the military tribunal, if they still refuse to take out working cards they will probably be deported from the district.
The same edition of the
Deseret Evening News further reports:
MAKING MANY ARRESTS
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Military Authorities Are at the Portland Mine
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Victor, Colo. July 21-The military authorities are making many arrests at the Portland mine. Regarding the reason for the arrests Judge McGarry, chairman of the military commission, gave out the following statement:
It has been ascertained that about 100 workmen at the Portland mine are there in the interests of the Western Federation of Miners, and leaders among the men having organized a walkout in a body for the purpose of embarrassing the operations of the mine. The management learned of this in time to secure men to fill their places.
The names of all the men of this conspiracy were obtained by the military authorities and they are making arrests. The places of the men will be filled promptly as the management has been preparing far this for several days. These men obtained employment on the mine by deceit and false representation, and were old employes. Their names were secured by detectives working in the mine.
A detail is patrolling Cripple Creek in order to pick up the men wanted, who may be missed by the authorities at Victor.
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SOURCE
Deseret Evening News
(Great Salt Lake City, Utah)
-of July 21, 1904
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
See also:
Yesterday's Hellraisers:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
IMAGE
The Bull Pen
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
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Tuesday July 22, 2014
Mother Jones, Caro Lloyd, and her brother, Henry Demarest Lloyd
Arrow points to Henry Demarest Lloyd,
Clarence Darrow seated in front of Lloyd
Indianapolis, Ind.,
July 21, 1914.
Miss Caro Lloyd,
Little Compton, R. I.
My Dear Miss Lloyd:
Your beautiful letter reached me in New York, and I immediately complied with your directions. I saw the post master last Saturday in New York. He said to ask you to get the post master at Nuttley, N. J. to issue an order payable to me in Denver Colo. He said there was no danger of any one duplicating that order and said they could do nothing further about it in New York. It must come from Nuttley.
We had a beautiful meeting in New York on Friday night, the 17th. I was wishing that you were there. I will enclose you one of the bills with this letter. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be with you for a day or two in the woods so we could talk things over. I met your dear nephew in Chicago. He urged me to go home with [him] for that evening, but it was utterly impossible, much as I would love to have gone. You know I always feel when I am conversing with a member the family that I am talking with Mr. [Henry Demarest] Lloyd. He died many years to soon.
I shall write you from Denver soon, and hope it will not be long until we meet again.
Mother Jones
Henry Demarest Lloyd:
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Henry Demarest Lloyd was born in New York City on May 1,1847, and died of pneumonia in Chicago on September 28, 1903.
From Spartacus-Educational:
Lloyd became a leading figure in the reform movement and influenced a generation of political activists including John Peter Altgeld, Clarence Darrow, William Dean Howells and John Dewey. When Altgeld was elected governor of Illinois in 1892 he offered Lloyd the post as the state's first chief factory inspector. However, Lloyd declined the offer and suggested his friend Florence Kelley for the post.
Lloyd wrote several books in favour of progressive reform including A Strike of Millionaires Against Miners (1890), Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894), Labor Co-Partnerships (1898) and A Country Without Strikes (1900).
Caro Lloyd's Preface to the Biography of her brother:
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
THE story of this life is offered to the people for two reasons: because of its relation to the great issues of the day, and because it depicts an inspiring personality. The period of my brother's life was co-incident with the industrial revolution whereby competition has given way to the great new basic principle of combination. A pioneer in revealing that the marvellous power of this new principle was being selfishly captured by a few, he endeavoured also to inspire the people to develop a system which should turn it to the good of all. Believing that in the labour movement, the great counter-force to capitalism, lay justice and the principles of the new system, he entered its ranks, and became, on the one hand, the active champion of the workers, and, on the other, the most dangerous, because best-informed, foe of the trusts. Since the troublous struggles of his day seemed to him nothing less than the genesis of a new era, he projected his thought along all its avenues of progress, social, political, industrial, religious.
He was temperamentally a practical idealist; therefore, not from his books alone, but from the picture of his life with its remarkable interplay of thought and action, can we gather his full message to humanity. I have tried to tell the story so that it may go forth with a mission, that it may offer the guidance of a clear and honest thinker on the vital problems pressing each day more urgently for solution, and by noble example may help to spread righteousness among the people.
To the many friends, comrades, strangers, who by generous and efficient help at every point have made of this work a co-operative labour of love, and have alone made the chronicle possible, the author's heartfelt gratitude is hereby tendered.
My special thanks are due to Margaret Morley, Henry W. Goodrich, Beatrix Demarest Lloyd, Edwin D. Mead, Caroline Stallbohm, William Bross Lloyd, and Florence Kelley, who have criticised the entire manuscript.
For criticism of separate chapters, thanks are due to William Dean Howells for the first chapter, to Robert H. Howe for that on the Chicago Anarchists, to Charles B. Matthews for Wealth Against Commonwealth, to Victor Berger, Thomas J. Morgan, and Robert H. Howe for "The People's Party," to George H. Shibley for the chapter on "The Winnetka System," to Albert Kimsey Owen and Theodore Gilman for "The Money of the New Conscience," to Henry Vivian for the chapter on "Labor Copartnership," and to Robert Hunter, Charles Edward Russell, Robert H. Howe, Thomas J. Morgan, Nicholas Kelley, and John Spargo for "Why I Join the Socialists."
CARO LLOYD
NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY
March, 1912
SOURCES
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, A Biography
-by Caro Lloyd
With an Introduction by
Charles Edward Russell
New York and London 1912
https://archive.org/...
https://archive.org/...
See also:
Wealth Against Commonwealth
-by Henry Demarest Lloyd
Harper & Brothers, 1894
http://books.google.com/...
IMAGES
Henry Demarest Lloyd with Clarence Darrow
on Anthracite Coal Strike Commission of 1902
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
Henry Demarest LLoyd
http://spartacus-educational.com/...
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The Commonwealth of Toil-Pete Seeger
When our cause is all triumphant
And we claim our Mother Earth,
And the nightmare of the present fades away,
We shall live with love and laughter,
We who now are little worth,
But we'll not forget the price we had to pay.
-Ralph Chaplin
(with last line changed by JayRaye)
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