The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-01-08
TROOPS ESCORT MOTHER
JONES FROM TRINIDAD.
Ordered to Return to Train and Is
Sent to Denver by a Detachment
of the State Militia.

Trinidad, Colo.-Acting under orders
from Adit. Gen. John Chase a
detail Of the state militia met Moth
er" Mary Jones on her arrival from
El Paso, ordered her to return from
aboard the train, and accompanied her
as far as Walesburg, the limit of the
military zone.
Mother" Jones in Trinidad pur-
chased a ticket for Denver. She of
fered no remonstrance and no demon
stration occurred. The military au-
thorities had learned that Mother
Jones intended to stop at Trinidad to
exhort the strikers, and deeming her
presence undesirable in the city Gen.
Chase ordered her deported.
viii Be Arrested.
Should she return, said Gen. Chase,
she will be arrested by military au-
thorities and held incommunicado.
The presence of many more citizens
than troopers at the station upon the
arrival of Mother" Jones led to the
report at first that the citizens them
selves had deported the labor agitator
and that the soldiers presence was to
protect her from unnecessary indigni-
ties.
"Where are you going?" Capt, Smith,
in charge of the detail, asked her when
she stepped from the train.
Mother" Jones looked at him and
the soldiers, hesitated few minutes
and replied:
81 am going to Denver"
LET me see your transportation, !"
demanded the officer.
"T have none," she replied, explain
ing that she left the train merely to
buy a ticket at the station and con-
tinue the journey to Denver.
Buys Ticket for Denver.
Accordingly, the officers with sew
eral soldiers, accompanied her into the
depot, where she bought a ticket for
Denver with her own money and was
ushered back to the train.
At Walsemburg a group of strikers
and union officials had met the train
at the depot, but Mother" Jones was
not permitted to show herself to her
followers.
The union men contended them
selves with singing their Battle Cry
during the few minutes the train
stopped at the station
Troops Sent by Governor.
On Jan. 4, Gov. Ammons ordered
"a company of infantry from Trini-
dad into the north section of
the coal fields, where yesterday
much excitement was created through
the deportation of seven strike leaders
by members of the Taxpayers League.
Conditions at Oak Creek and Steam
boat Springs were reported extremely
threatening.
Adit. Gen. Chase will accompany the
troops to Oak Creek and they will
leave Trinidad as quickly as they can
be provisioned and entrained.
Reports to Gov. Ammons Of
the situation in the northern district
of the coal fields were fraught with
intimations of an impending clash be-
tween members Of the Taxpayers
aa Quo and he strikers
"Mother" Jones Defiant.
"The deportation of Mother Jones
is the most disgraceful act ever perpe-
trated by supposed peace officers in
any state of the union," said President
John McLennon, of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor, in discussing the
forcible election of the labor leader
from Trinidad today.
'1'u go back They can't keep me
from my boys" declared Mother"
Jones upon her arrival here tonight
from Trinidad. 81 am not afraid of all
the troops in the state
Governor Ammons said:
81 do not care to express an opinion
regarding the deportation of Mother
Jones because I am not fully aware
of the circumstances, but | would not
hesitate to express an opinion if the
persons concerned were residents Of