You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Monday November 30, 1903
From Anaconda Standard: W. F. of M. Secures "Writs for Release" for Miners in Bullpen
Denver, Nov. 28.-a special to the Republican from Cripple Creek says that Frank J. Hangs, attorney for the Western Federation of Miners, to-night secured writs of habeas corpus in the case of Sherman Parker, Victor Pool, C. C. Kenison, W. F. Davis. W. B. Fasterly and Patrick Mullaney, miners now in the bullpen supposed to have been arrested on suspicion of complicity in the blowing up of the Vindicator mine, but against whom no charges have been made. The writs are returnable Dec. 3.
SOURCE
The Anaconda Standard
(Anaconda, Montana)
-of Nov 29, 1903
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Sunday November 30, 1913
Denver, Colorado - Letter from Frank Hayes to Mother Jones in Washington
Edward Keating
Mother Jones has been in Washington urging the passage of the Keating Resolution for a Congressional investigation into conditions in the Colorado coalfields. Representative Edward Keating of Colorado introduced his resolution on the 21st of October. Frank Hayes, Vice-President of the United Mine Workers of America, remains in the strike zone doing all he can for the miners on strike there. He recently sent the following letter to Mother Jones thanking her for her work in Washington:
Mother Jones
Washington, D. C.
Dear Comrade:
I am in receipt of your kind favor of recent date, and was indeed pleased to hear from you.
We are still battling away out here, and, considering the obstacles we are up against, we have the situation well in hand.
I appreciate very much the good work you have done in Washington, especially in the halls of congress, and feel sure you have aroused a splendid sentiment in favor of our cause.
I will communicate with E. Knockes of Chicago, requesting him to do everything he can to influence Congressman Mann to withdraw his opposition to the Keating resolution.
We have a serious situation out here at this time, and the operators are doing everything imaginable to break the spirit of the men, and have their agents in all the large cities, for the purpose of importing strike breakers into this field. So far we have been able to prevent the success of their plans in this direction.
We have been doing everything we can to arouse a favorable public sentiment in support of our strike, and have had considerable success along this line.
I just concluded a tour of the principle cities of the state, addressing large meetings in each town visited.
Keating tells me that he is going to make every effort to have his resolution considered by congress. I sincerely hope that he will be successful, and I know that you have done all you possibly could to create sentiment in favor of his resolution. If this situation is investigated by the Federal Government I feel sure it will produce results very favorable to our strike.
With kind personal regards, in which all the boys join, I am, as ever,
Fraternally yours,
Frank J. Hayes
E. Nockles, mentioned in the letter, is Edward Nockles, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Congressman Mann, Republican from Chicago, is the House minority leader.
SOURCE
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
Photo: Edward Keating
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Saturday November 30, 2013
The Keating Resolution was eventually passed and led to this testimony:
Conditions in the coal mines of Colorado: Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on mines and mining, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, second session, pursuant to H. res. 387, a resolution authorizing and directing the Committee on Mines and Mining to make an investigation of conditions in the coal mines of Colorado,
Volume 1
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Volume 2
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