New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-28
MOTHER JONES' ATTACKS
NURSING WOMEN
Some Warm Words OF Miners
Friend at Carnegie Hall
Apply to Others.
TELLS STORY OF A CHILD
Eighty one Year Old Speaker,
Recently Out of West Vir-
ginia Jail, Says She Has
Won Great Victory.

Il have an unfortunate habit said
Mother Jones last night. at the meeting
held in her honor at Carnegie Hall. IAN
unfortunate habit OF going where am
not wanted" She was describing her trip
to the striking miners 81 West Virginia
and the way it did not please the Gov
ernor and the courts Of that state.
But she went where she was wanted
last night for seldom have the walls Of
Carnegie rocked 10 such applause as
greeted this eighty-one-year-old Jeanne
d Arc of labor Not that she wanted the
applause.
"Ah. we use our hands well" she said,
with her Irish brogue. when the clapplng
finally stilled. IF We used our heads as
well as we use our hands. we'd do bust
ness"
She doesn't mince words, Mother Jones
doesn't
Il don't think YOU grasp the enormlty
OF this" she said. when describing the
attempt to try her. after her arrest. by
military court-martial. 1T was the first
attempt made by the ruling class TO try
the working class by military. And you
sat by. moral towards, and never raised
your voice in protest.
YOU" she cried. shaking her arms at
the audience. could have stopped # II
you had raised your voices like men, and
you didn't dare.
But ! said it would be an insult
, 10 the memory Of those who toiled to give
US the right Of trial by jury If l sub
mitted 10 this court martial, and l won
/ my point"
Again the audience clapped when she
described how. after an encounter be-
| tween the Baldwin guards and some OF
| the miners. A little boy said 10 her
" Mother Jones they beat my mamma
/ and when I'm a man I'll kill twenty of
/ them for what they did to her
Don't encore" Mother" Jones cried
/ for it's a horrible condition when pure
I little child is made a murderer in his
heart.
"Oh. you women you sentimental
women, who think you've done your duty
when you subscribe to a temperance so
ciety-you women who nurse cats and
/ dogs and parrots and let little children
come to the horrors I've told you about
| what do you think OF yourselves
( There was much socialist talk, loudly
applauded. before Mother" Jones was
/ finally introduced The keynote was
/ struck when red flag was let down
| from the ceiling above the stage well
come to Mother" Jones was lettered on
one side and much laughter was caused
| by the fact that Il was dropped wrong
/ side the first time. and the audience
couldn't read it until it was hauled up
and reversed
Max Eastman. editor OF labor mag
azine. presided. He was calm.
Charles Edward Russell followed with
remarks even more heated.
Z IF a time OF barbados. OF dreadful
street fighting. comes upon us. we want
Il clearly understood" he said, that the
responsibility is not ours. but is on those
who have driven us to it. you capitalists,
/ FOR every life You sacrifice. look out.
For every one OF our comrades YOU dare
To HARM you shall make restitution
collection for the West Virginia
miners was taken Up. II totalled 1851.
But Mother Jones refused IL She sug-
/ gested giving it to the Paterson factory
, strikers This will he done.