Semi-weekly herald., 1913-10-23
A CANCER ON THE CAUSE OF
UNION LABOR.

happened to the good people of Pueb-
10 yesterday afternoon. Is Mother"
Jones misnamed? Yes, when we
think of what the word mother stands
for in the American home. No, when
we stop to consider that the domi-
cile over which Mother" Jones would
rule is that of crime, anarchy, de-
fiance of all law and of decent So
ciety. In this sphere Mother" Jones
rules supreme, and woe be to the
mother or father who defies her il
legal authority. Paid in dollars
which could be put to far better
use, the real mother, whose respect
for womanhood and all that true wo-
manhood stands for, must blush with
shame at the spectacle of Mother"
Jones and the unnatural role she
plays before the American people.
What, mother and all of us love to
comprehend what that word has
meant to us through years of fond
and cherished memory, will longer
consider Mother" Jones as true
friend of the American home? What
real mother, whose husband carries
union card in his pocket, and who
together are the law-abiding parents
of family of girls and boys, will
not revolt at the shocking slurs cast
against them just because they do
not and will not espouse the criminal
methods and practices Mother"
Jones demands of them
Remember, Mother Jones is not
engaged in a labor of love. There is
not a union laboring man in the state
of Colorado that draws half as much
salary per month as Mother" Jones
gets for attempting to play upon the
sympathies of the real mothers of
this country, who are the foundation
Of the nations strength and the pill
lars of its purity. Yet she demands
of the mothers and fathers of this
state and nation that they must fol-
low her command in violating every
law on the statute books, in disre-
gardng every civic and civil author
ity and every moral law that protects
society against crime and vice, and
failing to do this, that they are DOOM
ed to go straight to hell and perdi-
ton.
What mother could take into her
little home, presided over by faith
er whose union card is an emblem of
membership in body of law-abiding
and peaceful employees, whose salary
is but fraction of that paid Mary
Jones, and who relies on that little
salary to maintain that home as be-
comes true mother, could receive at
her table woman of the stamp and
caliber of Mother" Jones and break
bread with her? Not one, for the
reason that the principles Mother"
Jones advocates stand for domiciles
of anarchy and everything else but
homes where decency, peace and FAM
lily prosperity have prevailed,
What does Mother" Jones care
how hunger, suffering, distress, pri-
vation' and inconvenience she causes
the families of other union men in
Colorado, so long as HER union pays
HER salary p she draws it in full
with clock-like regularity and lives
at the best hotels in every town she
inflicts, while the families of union
men on strike get So for the man.
81 for the mother and so cents each
per week for their children, if they
have any-$6 per week for family
of six, while Mother Jones is said to
draw over 800.
Do we see this woman going about
the camps throwing dime here, and
a quarter there, to children who are
allowed seven cents day? No record
OF it yet, for Mother" Jones is not
philanthropist herself, nor is she
at all sensitive to the welfare of any
human being who will not undergo
hardships greater than exiles to ST.
beria have ever been forced to ex-
Periehce 10 gam point by methods
she demands must be used in fight
lng employers of labor, and she has
hurt the cause of union labor in every
place she has visited, and the best
part of it is that union labor is not
in sympathy with her revolving prin-
ciples.
AMI now as to Mr.. Hayes
With less animation, ani proceed.
ing in an argumentative manner in
his remarks yesterday afternoon, Nj.
Hayes commanded more respect than
did Mother" Jones, but at no time
during his speech did he get right
down to the justification for calling
this strike, which is the one COM |
plant the people of Colorado have to |
make against Hayes for calling the
men out in the fact of the fact that
the operators in Colorado are in the |
clear on every point on which the |
governor Of West Virginia settled the |