You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Thursday July 9, 1903
Bristol, Pennsylvania- The Industrial Army of Mother Jones Parades Through Bristol
Mother Jones rode into Bristol last evening in a wagon followed by her Industrial Army. The little textile band made up of six fifes, four snare drums, and a bass drum announced their arrival. The men and boys carried American flags and and held aloft banners proclaiming:
We are Textile Workers
We Have Schools and Ought to Use Them
We Only Ask for Justice
More Schools and Less Hospitals
The parade was followed by an open air meeting at the foot of Pond street near the old Dorranco mill. John Sweeney was the marshal of the event. Mother Jones followed Isaac Cowan of the Machinists Union to the platform.
The Bucks County Gazette describes Mother Jones as she spoke to the crowd of supporters 2000 strong:
Attired in a gown of mourning, she removed her black hat, revealing her wealth of white hair. Her manner was entirely pleasing. A pair of kindly blue eyes
looked directly at you. High cheek bones, a short chin and rather florid complexion was enhanced by its crown of silver hair. The voice was rather harsh, probably from much open air speaking, but she had the habits of the trained orator. Her speaking is impressive, her arguments clear, and her manner of deliverance persuasive.
Mother called the conditions in the textile mills of Philadelphia deplorable. She said that she wants to let the people know that the strikers cause is for justice and that she intends to continue to devote her services on their behalf.
The main body of the Army marched out of Bristol early this morning headed to Trenton while several strikers stayed behind with a horse and wagon. They will go about the town soliciting provisions from friendly shopkeepers. Mother reports that farmers have been driving out to meet the Children's Crusade with wagons loaded with fruit and vegetables. The farmers' wives have been bringing the children clothes and money.
Mother admits that heat has taken its toll on the marchers, but insists that the children are happy to be bathing every day in the brooks and rivers, and view the march as a holiday from the mills. Hellraisers finds it odd that so much public concern is voiced regarding the children marching in the summer heat where little concern is shown for the very same children working in hot and dusty mills for twelve hours every day.
The strikers ask only that those long hours be reduced from sixty hours a week to fifty-five.
SOURCES
The Bucks County Gazette
(Bristol, PA)
-of July 9, 1903
The New York Times
-of July 10, 1903
http://select.nytimes.com/...
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
-ed by Mary Field Parton
Charles H Kerr Pub, 1990
Pittston strike Commemorative Edition
Mother Jones
The Miners' Angel
-by Dale Fetherling
So IL U Press, 1974
Children's Crusade Summary
Day 2: Wednesday July 8, 1903
From Torresdale, Philadelphia, PA
To Bristol, PA
(Use with "get directions" on google maps to follow general route of march.)
Wednesday July 9, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey - Patrick Quinlan Taken to State Prison in Trenton
Patrick Quinlan was transported to the state prison in Trenton yesterday where he will begin serving a sentence of two to seven years on a conviction of inciting silk strikers to riot. Quinlan was granted a writ of error but was unable to raise the bail required. Big Bill Haywood and other I.W.W. leaders are facing similar indictments.
SOURCE
The Inter Ocean
Chicago, IL
-of July 9, 1913
Tuesday July 9, 2013
India - The Curse of the Diamond - Battling Child Labor and Corruption
From LisabreenTV
The National Human Rights Commission of India
http://nhrc.nic.in/
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
International Labor Rights Forum/Child and Force Labor
http://www.laborrights.org/...
Fife and Drum: Marching Through Georgia
Some accounts describe the Industrial Band playing this song.