United labor bulletin., 1911-07-27
MOTHER" JONES IN
SUITS INVITED GUEST
Takes Advantage of Her Sex to
Outrage Trades Assembly.

A DUTY deNolNeS upon the editor OF this
paper which, if it were not given heed,
would do a great Injustice to the cause
for which this paper is published to
espouse. We trust that adherents to
parties will consider that duty we'll per-
formed when this subject is given the at
tention it deserves.
There was invited to the Denver
Trades and Labor Assembly Sunday, by
the committee on publications and lee
lures, j. Rush Bronson, manager of the
Empress theater representing the Dem
yer Chamber of Commerce He was
asked by that committee to address the
assembly on the get together campaign
that is being made by the Chamber of
Commerce and the representatives of or
ganized labor. Mr. Bronson believes that
capital and labor can get together and
work in harmony, and the subject has
been given deep study and days and
nights have been spent by him in its ad-
vocacy.
Mr.. Bronson spoke to the delegates in
a vein that showed his belief in the fu-
ture well as in human nature. He
said that the future held in store the
hope that labor and capital in Denver
and Colorado would get together and
work in harmony. He informed the dele
gates that the element in control of the
chamber were bending every effort in
that direction and he believed that his
dream of equalizing the forces of capital
and labor to a mutual understanding
whereby each could live better and hap
pier would be realized. His address was
one of the most brilliant heard on the
floor of the central body in years. He
was applauded to the echo when he had
finished
Chairman French of the committee
next introduced Mother" Jones,
woman who is near and dear to the
| hearts n poa1 mir in, ba to1
States She has spent her life in their
cause and her battle for them has caused
her banishment from many camp and
many time has caused her arrest. She
took the floor just as Mr.. Bronson arose
to depart, and meeting him on the floor
| asked him to remain to hear what she
had to say He did So
Mother Jones then began an attack
on the Denver Chamber of Commerce as
well as the chambers of commerce and
business mems organizations in other
parts of the United States She told of
| how she was taken by the militia at
night from the state of Colorado and
| lodged in a federal prison, and then tried
before federal Judge for contempt; she
/ told of how women in the prisons of
Pennsylvania had to sit up night to keep
the rats from devouring the babies that
were sent to prison with the mothers in
order that they might be nursed She
dwelt on the kidnapping of labor leaders
| from Colorado and from Indiana, and on
the class struggle in Los Angeles. Much
of her address was wildly applauded.
But aside from this The Bulletin feels
that a great personal injustice was done
Mr.. Bronson. He was personally at
tackled by Mother" Jones time and
again, and as she Numbered a rebuke at
him for daring to suggest his theory to
laboring men she shook a pointed finger
of scorn.
| Mr.. Bronson was dressed in a neat,
light summer suit of no more than ordi.
nary material, and in the course of her
remarks Mother" Jones said:
The workers have votes. We are go
| ing to take over the government that
you have prostituted; we are going to
do it with votes If We can. but IL we have
TO We are going to do it with bullets,
and" pointing finger at Mr.. Bronson
which shook with rage. make you take
OF that white suit and go to work"
| Granting that all that was said by
Mother" Jones was the truth, and there
is no doubt of it; and realizing that
i there is life and death struggle on be-
tween capital and labor; we must bear
in mind that Mr.. Bronson was an invited
guest and there was due him the courtesy
that should be extended anyone invited
to the hall of a labor organization to ex-
pound theory.
The writer has spoken to many OF the
delegates to the assembly. and without
exception regret has been expressed that
guest should be invited TO remain while
such an attack was made.
Mr.. Bronson is of the common people,
though a member OF the Chamber of
Commerce. He is working for salary
with the amusement company. and his
heart and soul is in the work advocated
in his address to the delegates. He feels
-,
the work retarded Members OF the
Chamber of Commerce who are opposing
his campaign to help the wo=kcrs jeer
at him and flaunt the articles that have
appeared in the daily papers in his face.
I 1t is believed Mother" Jones took snap
judgment of the situation. The thing is
to be regretted