Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-12
is STRIKE HEROINE
"Motr er" Jones Comes to Rock
Island to Spread Social.
istic Doctrine.
TO SPEAK At Y. m. C. A. HALL
Relates Her Experiences in Mining Re-
gions of Colorado During
Labor Troubles.

| Mrs. Mary Jones, who is known
Throughout the United States as Moth
err Jones, is in the city to deliver her
lecture this evening at the Y. NJ. c. A.
on economic questions. She comes I'M
der the auspices of the socialist party.
Mrs. Jones first became known as
| Mother" Jones when working in the
factories. The children began to call
| her by that name. and it soon spread,
until now very few people know her
by any other name than Mother"
Jones. Her home is in Chicago, where
she has resided for 81 years.
A great part of her life has been
spent in working among laboring men,
and she has been a prominent figure
in a number of the biggest strikes in
the country. During the recent labor
troubles in Colorado Mother" Jones
was one of the first to be deported
from the state by the militia. She had
been addressing the miners. near Trim
idad. and was ordered from the state
by Gov. Peabody. With an escort of
militia she was taken to the borders
of the state. She went to Helper,
Utah. There the authorities were eX-
pecting her. and when she made known
her intention to hold meetings and ad-
dress the miners she was told by the
authorities that she could not do so.
for fear of exposing the citizens of the
town to infectious diseases. She then
arranged to hold the meeting two miles
from the city.
Placed Under Quarn tine.
When she returned to her room she
was visited by the sheriff. the town
marshal and the health commissioner
and was informed that she was placed
under quarantine for 16 days. charged
with having been exposed to smallpox.
She was placed under guard, but in the
1G days managed to break away twice
and evade her jailers- She says that
this was a scheme devised To- arrest
were unable to- bring any
other charge against her.
Before being deported she gave the
members of the militia escort n heated
lecture as to- her opinion of them, and
when one of the miners, an old soldier |
who had heard her. asked to shake |
hands with her. he was arrested by the |
captain of the militia.
Mother" Jones was seen by an Ar
gus reporter this morning at the Rock |
Island house, and told a number of |
her experiences in labor strikes. She |
told of her experience in the Paramount |
coal strike. in West Virginia. in 1892, |
when she was arrested and brought |
before the federal court for contempt
An injunction had been issued restrain
ing agitators from addressing the min
ers. Mother" Jones and several 9TH
ers had arranged a meeting, and she
addressed GOO of the men. She was
arrested. as were the men, and was
brought before the court The mar
shall who arrested her offered her ac-
at hotel. but she re-
fused them, preferring TO be taken to
jail. the same as the other prisoners.
Once when travelling in the south
west she stopped at hotel in Pueblo
She had engaged a room. and intend
ed TO remain over night. A young miner
came to her and warned her that that
room was TO be dynamited if she re-
NAMED. She left that evening.
An Enthusiastic Agitstor
Mother Jones'" for one of her age
Is very active. She is a pleasing con-
though she can not for
long refrain from the subject of so
cialism and economics. When she tells
Of her experiences. it is with a certain
pardonable pride. for her career has