You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday April 30, 1904
From Nebraska's Dakota County Herald: Mother Jones Again Escapes "Quarantine"
Today's Herald featured this story on the front page:
"MOTHER" JONES BREAKS OUT
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Leaves Quarantine and Price Accompanied by Gang of Italians.
Mother Jones, who has been in enforced quarantine at Price, Utah after visiting a miner afflicted with smallpox, has again broken out of quarantine and accompanied by fifteen or twenty Italian women and children drove into town. With two sympathizers, striking miners from Helper, she walked through the town to the implement shed where 120 men, arrested Saturday, are being detained.
Before reaching the shed she was arrested and placed in jail. She will be kept there until the period of infection is over. It is believed this last outbreak by Mother Jones has exposed scores to infection and active measures will be taken by the state health officer
And from the front page of today's
Arizona Republican we offer these two reports.
Haywood released from jail in Denver:
Office of Western Federation of Miners Reopened.
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Denver, April 29.-Secretary-Treasurer Wm. D. Haywood of the Western federation of Miners, under arrest on a warrant charging him with desecration of the flag, was allowed to leave jail today in the custody of a deputy sheriff and take charge of the affairs at federation headquarters in this city.
He bears a few marks of his encounter with the militia a few days ago.
Three hundred non-union men stop work in the Southern Coalfield of Colorado:
NON-UNION MEN QUIT
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A Crippling of a Coal Mine in Southern Colorado
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Denver. April 29.-A News special from Trinidad, Colo., says operations at the mines at Berwind and Hastings, two of the largest coal producing sections of southern Colorado, have been seriously crippled by the action of about 300 non-union men in quitting work today. The men were dissatisfied with the amount of their pay checks, particular objection being to deductions made for articles furnished them by the coal companies.
Secretary Simpson of District 15, United Mine Workers of America, has issued a warning to union men to beware of persons reported to be making an effort to have the strike settled "on any conditions." He says only the strikers themselves and the national officers have power to end the strike. He further declares the outlook for the successful termination of the contest is brighter than ever before.
SOURCES
Dakota County Herald
(Dakota City, Nebraska)
-of April 30, 1904
The Arizona Republican
(Phoenix, Arizona)
-of Apr 30, 1904
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Thursday April 30, 1914
From The New York Times: Upton Sinclair Leads Picketers at Rockefeller Headquarters
Upton Sinclair Picketing Rockefeller Headquarters
April 29, 1914
ROCKEFELLER BALKS SINCLAIR MOURNERS
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Crepe-Adorned Pickets Neither See him Enter nor Leave His Broadway Office.
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FIVE OF THEM ARRESTED
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Sinclair Writes at Song in Jail and All Are Paroled
Calls It "Free Silence" Movement.
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In spite of the fact that he was arrested in company with three women associates and a woman who he said was a stranger to him and his movements, Upton Sinclair managed to keep a close watch with a and of picketers in funereal garb upon the offices of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at 26 Broadway, from 10 o'clock yesterday morning until after 5 in the afternoon.
There was, however, no indication that the band of picketers annoyed or disturbed Mr. Rockefeller. At his office on the fourteenth floor of the Standard Oil Building. Mr. Rockefeller's secretary said in answer to questions that the police would be allowed to handle the situation in any way they saw fit without suggestions from Mr. Rockefeller. No one saw Mr. Rockefeller arrive at his office in the morning and none of the picketers saw him go away.
One woman agitator, Mrs. Ella Newman Zilberman, attempted to see Mr. Rockefeller, but the best she could do was to gain a promise that a clerk would take in a message. Her message was that she would like to see the Colorado mines shut down until peace could be restored.
Blames Banner for Arrests.
Mrs. Zilberman carried a banner with a bleeding heart embroidered on it. This banner, as Mrs. Zilberman fell into line behind the pickets with it, attracted a crowd of unwieldy proportions, and Sinclair blamed this fact for the arrest of himself and his pickets. He said he did not know Mrs. Zilberman and had nothing to do with her, her banner or her visit to the Rockefeller offices.
The crowd, which was very attentive to Mrs. Zilberman, her banner, and the women picketers, lost interest entirely after a squad of men replaced them. Throughout the afternoon the picketers drew only casual glances from passers-by.
Sinclair and his four women associate-Elizabeth Freeman, an English militant suffragette, who boasts a record of five arrests; Mrs. Margaret Remington Charter, and Mrs. Donia Leitener, and Mrs. Zilberman-were taken into custody by the police, but when arraigned before Magistrate Simms in the Tombs Court all five were released on their own recognizance and given until 10 o'clock this morning to produce witnesses at their hearing.
Sinclair returned at once to the picket line. His wife meantime had carried on the work with a new group of pickets. It was the intention to keep up the picketing all last night, but a call for a general conference of the picketers at the Rand School of Social Science at 6 P. M. caused this part of the plan to be abandoned.
Pickets on duty again to-day.
As he finally deserted the picket line with his followers, Sinclair sighed out a grievance against the police. It was that they had not arrested Mrs. Sinclair with him in the morning so that they might have made a family affair of the business of going to the Tombs. he said he was very proud of the fact that Mrs. Sinclair had marshaled a fresh force of pickets after he and the four women had been hauled away in a police patrol wagon.
"Mrs. Sinclair and I will be back again on duty at 10 o'clock Thursday morning," he announced and we will remain on duty at the Rockefeller offices every day until the strike is settled-that is, every day that we do not spend in jail, and if we have to go to jail, why, then, we will go on a hunger strike."
The Sinclair pickets wore black bands of crepe on their right arms, and from five to seven of them were on duty at one time. For a time their movement was without a name. There was objection to calling it a Socialist movement, since some I. W. W. men had joined it, and there was objection to calling it an I. W. W. movement since it was said to be strictly a movement of peace and not of war.
Names It Free Silence Movement.
Leonard D. Abbott, head of the Free Speech League, proposed a way out of the difficulty that was accepted. "I have it," he exclaimed. "We have been fighting to establish the right of free speech. Now you give us a new fight. It is the fight to establish the right of Free Silence. I propose we name this the Free Silence Movement and that we declare its purpose to be the carrying of the Social Chill to the heart of Mr. Rockefeller. That's just what we want-to give him the Social Chill."
The poetic souls in the picketing movement heartily accepted the suggestion. Upton Sinclair dashed across the street and hired a hall at 8 Trinity Place, which he solemnly announce was the headquarters of the free Silence Movement. Asserting that he would have to work quickly because he was due back in the Tombs Court at 10 A. M. on Thursday, "and there was no telling what would happen after that," Sinclair ordered cards printed, telephones installed, and literature prepared. He took down the signatures of thirty persons who agreed to keep up the picketing "until arrested and sent to jail."
To all who applied Sinclair announced that he regarded as friends all those who would agree to remain absolutely silent while on picket duty, to carry no banners or insignia of any kind except a band of crepe upon the right arm, and to keep moving rapidly through any crowd that might form, so as not to attract police attention. He urged that all others go their way and start any movement they might care to, as he wanted peaceable methods only to prevail,. The accepted recruits signed for service until the settlement of the strike in Colorado.
Says Miners Are Forced To Fight.
"I do this thing," Sinclair said to his followers, "because Mr. Rockefeller is here at the very headquarters of the invisible government with all his prestige and his power and his control of the press and the police. The newspapers printed his statement in full, but the public does not hear the miners' side. The miners have no high-priced corporation lawyers to help them draw up statements.
"I have studied the situation for a year and a half, and I knew six months ago that the Rockefeller interests were importing gunmen into Colorado and were perpetrating outrages of the same sort that caused the civil wars in West Virginia and Michigan. The public did not know about this, as it read Mr. Rockefeller's statement, but any one possessed of the facts could have fore-told six months ago that the end must be the driving of the miners to the point of fighting desperately to survive.
"Now the fight breaks and the people cannot understand it. The public does not understand that when Mr. Rockefeller says that any miner can demand a check weigher, if he wants one, to see that he gets a fair deal, he merely mean that the miner may do this, but that if he should do so, he would be listed as a trouble maker and discharged and blacklisted, with never a trace on the records to show that asking for the weigher was wrong.
"The public does not understand that after posting promises to pay better wages and to grant shorter hours, the company set about destroying all the leaders of the men and blackmailing them out of their jobs, and even hired gunmen to harass them, until the murder of a union organizer precipitated the present war.
"The public does not understand that the whole history of mining strikes is a history of promises and concessions made that were retracted and withdrawn as soon as the company found it could destroy the leaders of the men, one by one, after the peace agreement instead of meeting them in open conflict in the strike itself
"The public does not understand that the only reason the strikers want a contract with the union is that they have learned by bitter experience that no other kind of a promise is any good.
Writes a New "Marseillaise."
"I have not eaten for 8 hours since deciding that I owed it to my own moral convictions to make a peaceable demonstration here. I was scrupulously careful not to commit an offense against the law. I could not be blamed if a strange woman whom I had never seen before, fell in behind me with a little flag. I did not see that flag until after we were arrested, but I am glad to go to court and maybe to prison, if by that means I can call public attention to the frightful manner in which citizens of Colorado have been robbed of all legal and civil rights."
While he was in the Tombs prison, Sinclair was placed in a cell next to that in which the for women arrested with him were confined. The women, to keep up their courage, sang "The Marseillaise," and this so stirred Sinclair's poetic soul that the wrote these verses:
THE MARSEILLAISE IN THE TOMBS.
First comes the settler with his ax and plow,
He cleans the land and founds the future State;
A Freeman, proud and happy in his toil,
Sure that the nation will be strong and great;
Then comes the tradesman with his cunning wiles;
He takes the land-the freeman is a slave;
And justice sleeps, hatred and murder reign,
Hunger and want pursue men to their graves.
They rear the prison with its iron bars,
And all the solemn majesty of law;
But hark! the sound-the prison walls awake!
The song that roused a people into war.
Rejoice, rejoice! the voice of hope is heard;
There are no bars forged by the powers of wrong.
There stands no prison upon God's fair earth
That can withstand the fury of that song.
The poem was Sinclair's second written in a prison cell, as he indited an ode to his "vermin-haunted hide" when confined in a jail at Wilmington, Del., for playing tennis on Sunday at the Arden Single Tax Colony. Sinclair said that his arrest in Delaware was the only one he had suffered previous to yesterday and that then it was an old-fashioned blue law that he offended.
Alexander Berkman joined the picketers for a few moments at the close of an anarchist meeting at the Franklin Statue. The Rev. Alexander Irvine did a few turns with them with a band of crepe on his arm, as did also Sol Fieldman, a Socialist lecturer.
Sinclair called at the City Hall to ask Mayor Mitchel for an official ruling as to whether it was unlawful for him to appear on the street in front of 26 Broadway with a band of crepe on his arm. Mayor Mitchel was too busy to see him but sent word that he should address his question to the Police Department. Sinclair then called upon City Chamberlain Bruere to whom he outlined his purpose of "peaceable public mourning" in front of the Rockefeller offices. He would not say what was the result of his conference with Mr. Bruere.
SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-of Apr 30, 1914
http://select.nytimes.com/...
Photo: Upton Sinclair at JDR Jr, HQ, Apr 29, 1914
http://www.loc.gov/...
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La Marseillaise
THE MARSEILLAISE IN THE TOMBS.
First comes the settler with his ax and plow,
He cleans the land and founds the future State;
A Freeman, proud and happy in his toil,
Sure that the nation will be strong and great;
Then comes the tradesman with his cunning wiles;
He takes the land-the freeman is a slave;
And justice sleeps, hatred and murder reign,
Hunger and want pursue men to their graves.
They rear the prison with its iron bars,
And all the solemn majesty of law;
But hark! the sound-the prison walls awake!
The song that roused a people into war.
Rejoice, rejoice! the voice of hope is heard;
There are no bars forged by the powers of wrong.
There stands no prison upon God's fair earth
That can withstand the fury of that song.
-Upton Sinclair, April 29, 1914
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