You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday January 12, 1904
Denver, Colorado - C. F. of L. Convention Receives Greetings from Mother Jones
Mother Jones, who is recovering from a serious illness in Trinidad, nevertheless sent her greetings to the Special Convention of the Colorado Federation of Labor now in progress in Denver. At the afternoon session yesterday, H. B. Waters, secretary of the Convention, read the following:
Trinidad, Colo., January 11, 1904
State Federation of Labor, Convention Hall, Denver, Colo.:
To the Delegates of the State Federation of Labor, Greeting-Let your deliberations be tempered with a high sense of justice for all mankind-malice toward none, for you are the bulwark of the nation. The day dawneth when you shall get your own.
Fraternally in the cause of labor,
MOTHER JONES
The chairman and the secretary of the Convention were instructed unanimously to answer Mother Jones:
To Mother Jones, Trinidad:
The greatest labor convention ever held in the state sends you greeting and wishes you health and God-speed.
J. C. SULLIVAN, President
H. B. WATERS, Secretary
SOURCES
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-of Feb 6, 1904
Note: While newspapers across the nation reported for days on the critical illness of Mother Jones, reporting that she had either Typhoid Fever, Pneumonia, or both, I could find none that reported on her recovery. The first hint of a recovery comes from this issue of The Labor World which has her blasting Rockefeller in Hastings, Colorado, on February 5th.
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Monday January 12, 1914
From The Indianapolis Star: Detectives Use Spy Device On W. F. of M. Attorneys
Operatives of Detective Agency Say Dictographs Were Concealed in Offices of Attorneys for Labor Leaders in Calumet.
CHIEFS ARE NOT WORRYING
Mine Managers Said to Have Obtained Evidence and Gone Before Grand Jury With Some of Alleged Revelations.
Houghton, Mich., Jan. 11-Evidence gathered through a telephonic device concealed in the office of attorneys for the Western Federation of Miners may play an important part in future developments of the copper strike situation, it was learned today. Operatives of a detective agency said that one of the instruments was in the Calumet offices of Angus W. Kerr and Edward F. Legendre for five weeks last summer and that, more recently, conversations between Charles H. Moyer, president of the federation, and O. N. Hilton, its chief counsel, were recorded by the same method in the Scott Hotel, Hancock.
None of the men concerned in the conference seemed perturbed by the revelation, "Suppose they did have one of those things in the room; doesn't worry us," was the gist of their comment. They said they had heard that the device was being used by agents for the companies.
Make Records of Conference.
Messrs. Kerr and LeGendre have been legal advisers to the union since the strike started last July. In its early stages many of the most important conferences of the strike leaders were held in the conference room and it was stated that voluminous records were made of statements by the attorneys, by Guy E. Miller, Yanco Terzich and J. J. Lowney of the executive board of the federation, and by C. E. Mahoney and Charles H. Moyer, vice president and president, respectively, of the organization.
It was stated that these records were turned over to the mine managers, and there was a hint also that some of them went before the grand jury which has been investigating all aspects of strike lawlessness. Efforts to confirm this later assertion met with failure. George Nichols, special prosecutor in charge of the grand jury, declining to discuss any phase of his work...
SOURCE
The Indianapolis Star
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-of Jan 12, 1914
Photo: Attorney Orrin N Hilton
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
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Sunday January 12, 2014
More on Judge Orrin N Hilton:
Judge Orrin N Hilton, chief counsel for the Western Federation of Miners, would soon become famous as the attorney who represented Joe Hill in the appeal of his murder conviction. He gave a long speech at the funeral of Joe Hill which so offended the State of Utah that he was later disbarred in that state.
Orrin N Hilton:
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
One notable disbarment in which the bar participated was Judge Orrin N. Hilton, attorney for the famous Joe Hillstrom, who was executed in Utah in 1915. At the funeral of “Joe Hill,” in Chicago, Judge Hilton uttered contemptuous remarks about the Utah Supreme Court. Hilton was sarcastic in his defense and consequently disbarred on July 6, 1916. See "Hilton Disbarment is to be Started in Few Days," Salt Lake Telegram, December 3, 1915, at 9. At the time, however, the Supreme Court did not have a pro hac vice provision, and just admitted to the bar attorneys from outside the jurisdiction based on their own state membership. Further, no provisions existed for reciprocal disbarments in other states, which explains Judge Hilton’s flippant attitude.
Utah State Bar
http://webster.utahbar.org/...
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I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night-Pete Seeger
And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes.
Says Joe "What they can never kill
Went on to organize,
Went on to organize"
-Alfred Hayes (music: Earl Robinson)