You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday January 22, 1915
New York, New York - John D. Jr. Made Uncomfortable by "Stare" of Mother Jones
Newspapers across the nation have been reporting that both Mother Jones and John D. Rockefeller Jr. were present yesterday as Daniel Guggenheim testified before the
Commission on Industrial Relations. Mr. Rockefeller appeared to become uncomfortable as Mother Jones sat down near him and turned her gaze upon him. The headline in
The Topeka Daily Capital of Kansas gave this description of Rockefeller's reaction:
JOHN D. DOESN'T LIKE HER STARE
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Leaves When "Mother" Jones Begins Inspection
From New York's Dunkirk Evening Observer of January 21, 1915:
EVERY WORKER ENTITLED TO JOB
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Declaration of Daniel Guggenheim,
Mining and Smelter King,
Causes Surprise.
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BECOMES A RADICAL OF
PRONOUNCED TYPE
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Tells Federal Industrial Commission
He Believes a Better Day
for Industry Is Dawning
in the United States.
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(By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN)
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
New York, Jan. 21.-"Every worker in the United States is entitled to a job and the government should see that he gets it. As a matter of actual right the worker is entitled in addition to sickness insurance, to old age pensions, and above all, in a share in the profits resulting from his labor."
This was the sentiment expressed today by Daniel Guggenheim, millionaire mining and smelter king, to the federal industrial relations commission. Guggenheim was an amazing witness so radical as a matter of fact in certain of his views as to cause audible wonder from certain parts of the audience. He openly characterized his own views as socialism. He said he believed a better day for industry is dawning in the United States because employers are at last realizing that they must be more fair to their employes. Envy he characterized as the great canker affecting the body politic and he said he sympathized with the worker who was envious. The smelter king declared that he favored trades unionism as a general proposition although he maintained the "open shop" in his own properties.
E. J. Berwind, one of the biggest coal operators in the United States, another witness, declared that he believed the maximum workday in that industry should be of nine hours. He said that while his properties were not unionized they paid the union wages. But he complained that his men would work only about 19 days a month.
"There are holidays, funerals, pay days and the day after pay day," he said, "and the result is that we have never received the maximum return for the capital we have invested."
While Guggenheim was talking, "Mother" Jones and several of the mine workers from Colorado who are here to testify before the commission, entered the room. "Mother" Jones sat down a few feet away from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and began to curiously examine him. A few minutes later Rockefeller quietly slipped out of the room.
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From today's York Daily of Pennsylvania:
The York Daily reported on a speech made by Mother Jones to the strikers of Roosevelt, New Jersey, who were attacked by deputized company gunthugs on Tuesday. Tomorrow's Hellraisers will feature a much longer report on Mother's visit with the wives of the strikers as they prepare for the funerals of the two strikers who have died as a result of that attack.
"MOTHER" JONES WARNS STRIKERS
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TELLS JERSEYMEN TO AVOID VIOLENCE-
12 DEPUTIES IDENTIFIED
AS SHOOTERS
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Roosevelt, N. J., Jan. 21-Twelve of the deputy sheriffs who have been guarding the plants of the American Agricultural Chemical company here since the employes went on strike early this month were identified by strikers tonight as men who used revolvers during the shooting [down?] of sixteen strikers by deputies on Tuesday. One man was killed at that time, and Carman Patty, another wounded striker, died today.
Fifty five deputies, including twenty one who are under bonds on a charge of manslaughter, were lined up and the strikers pointed out the twelve deputies who, they said, participated in the shooting. Several are among the twenty two under arrest. Additional warrants it is expected, will be issued tomorrow. The strike situation earlier in the day was confined to mass meetings. A gathering of strikers was addressed by "Mother" Jones and by labor organizers at a meeting of citizens. A committee of five was named to call upon Governor Fielder to investigate the situation here.
"Mother" Jones in her talk to the strikers discussed strike conditions in Colorado, West Virginia and Ohio, and urged the men not to resort to violence.
Leonard Frisina, an organizer of the American Federation of Labor told the strikers that picket squads would be formed tomorrow. "They will not be allowed to carry any form of arms or weapons," he said. "They will help to enforce order and will try peacefully to persuade would-be strike-breakers from taking the jobs of our men."
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[photograph added]
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SOURCES
The Topeka Daily Capital
(Topeka, Kansas)
-Jan 22, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Dunkirk Evening Observer
(Dunkirk, New York)
-Jan 21, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, Volume 8
-United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
D.C. Gov. Print. Office, 1916
(search: guggenheim, choose p.7559)
https://books.google.com/...
The York Daily
(York, Pennsylvania)
-Jan 22, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Mother Jones, New York, Jan 1915
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
Roosevelt, New Jersey, Jan 19, 1915
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
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Chemical Workers Song - Ron Angel
A process man am I and I'm telling you no lie.
I've worked and breathed among the fumes.
That trail across the sky.
There's thunder all around me and poison in the air.
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell.
And dust all in my hair.
But you go boys go.
They time your every breath.
And every day you're in this place.
You're two days nearer death.
But you go...
-Ron Angel
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