The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-04-20

pledged herself in the name of
her starving babes that she would
give courage to the men and would
urge them to remain true in the
strike. In two more weeks the strike
was settled. The miners Won a COM
plete victory.
the hotel which was owned by the
mining company. When she was
comfortably asleep she was aroused
by the superintendent Of the mining
company and ordered out. She made
her way to a little light on the hill
side. 1t happened to be the shack Of
striking miner. She was taken in
and wrapped in an old blanket. She
spent the night sleeping on the floor.
sharing the lot of a coal miner and
his family.
Tribute to BILLY Wilson.
Mother Jones paid a glowing tri-
butte to Congressman w. B. Wilson,
the coal miner. She told of one trip
she made through the anthracite coal
regions with Mr.. Wilson when he was
working by the day, and they walked
fifty miles with but five cents worth
OF crackers Tor 1000.
She says she knows Of one occasion
when Wilson could have obtained a
large sum Of money from the mine
owners II he would but agree to leave
the district. This is the man some of
the Socialists claim is not q truo
representative of the working classes,
simply because he is Democratic
member of congress. The label may
not be on the bottle, but its contents
are tho most pure and wholesome
that can be found anywhere.
When Mother Jones was in Colo
RADIO she was cast into bull-pen
with the miners who were detained
there. The next day she was placed
aboard a train and sent to Kansas
with but five cents in her pocket. She
waited at the station until the next
westbound train appeared. She told
the conductor her story. He carried
her to Denver, and upon her arrival
at the capitol Of Colorado, she went
forthwith to the office of Governor
Peabody and what she told him is
not in print, but Peabody saw that
she was left unmolested thereafter.
Guaranteed in Utah.
Later she was sent to Utah where
the mine owners had everything their
own way. They controlled the courts
and the police and all the machinery
of government, including the health
officer. A lone case of smallpox had
broken out somewhere on the hills.
Mother Jones had passed within two
miles Of the house, but this was
sufficiently near to warrant the
health officer to quarantine her.
She was kept under guard as a
smallpox suspect for sixteen days.
While thus detained every effort was
made to crush the striking miners.
On another occasion when the coal
miners were on strike an ex-convict
acting as Pinkerton detective, came
to her room one day and pointing a
sun under her nose, demanded that
she tell where the miners kept their
money, and he threatened If she did
not tell at once he would blow her
brains out.
''Shoot, You Coward"
Shoot. you coward. I dare you
fighter He dropped his gun and
,muttering a few words of profanity
left her. Not long after this
man was killed by deputy sheriff.
It's a treat to hear the good
mother tell of her exciting exper-
fences in her struggles for the work.
ing classes. II we had few mon on
the firing, line with the courage, the
grit and the determination Of Mary
Jones, this industrial struggle in
which we are engaged would be more
easily conducted.
Mother Jones left for Two Harbors
Tuesday and returned on Wednesday.
She spoke last night at Crookston,