The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-12-16
JONES
HELD UNION MEN
IN PART FAULT
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ground. Hers is a martial spirit and il
seemed TO be contagious as she told her
story last night.
| Responsibility for the situation among
the clerks, the speaker laid up against
the clerks themselves and other union
people in Barre, rather than to the mer-
chants. She deplored the circumstances
that permitted on-union employees to
mingle in the circles where none but
organized workers should rightfully be
employed. But the blame, nevertheless,
she went on, must be borne by the union
men who appear unwilling to lend their
support to righteous cause. Mrs. Jones
concerned herself principally with the
case OF the women in the struggles
which, she declared, the clerks are max
Ting for their rights. Ii seemed to her
nconceivable that mercantile men should
ask the girls and women to work for
them at wages of So per week. Rising
to the full flow Of her eloquence she
pictured the grasping "ten-cent store"
magnates, who pay their women EN-
ployes wages of SO and $4 and use the
profits for erecting buildings $50 high"
Mother Jones averred, that the Almighty
cannot see the deyiltry that is going on
below"
GENEROUSLY, Mrs. Jones asked if the
merchants would allow their daughters
to work in what she called slave pens
for So week. She wondered If the mer
chants themselves are willing to enter
their places of business at 6 and o'clock
in the morning and work until o'clock
of Monday evening. Until 10 o'clock
Saturday EVENING"
IL is organized labor in Barre, she
continued, that has made the stores pos
sible. Without the patronage of union
men the merchants would be looking
elsewhere to hang out their signs. Then
it follows. Mrs. Jones declared, that if
the solidarity of the working men and
women in this city were to be asserted,
the chasm between the merchants and
the clerks would be bridged within
few days. In dealing with some OF the
aspects of the present labor difficulty as
they affect the women members of the
clerks union, the speaker paid eloquent |
tribute to the part that women have |
played in a good many working class |
Labor Causes in General.
Much OF her address was concerned |
with her own experiences on the firing |
inc, as she termed her work among the |
striking miners. In an interesting way
he described the evolutionary process
which brought her by definitely marked
tages from the old Greenback party TO
he Populist party, then TO the knights
# Labor and thence into the Western
Federation of Miners. Although Social
site in her tendencies, Mother Jones
aid that the rights OF the laboring men
re not to be gained in politics. She
rged widespread organization as a lev
rage 10 be applied to any political party
hat is in power. She recalled the days
when the Western federation, few in
encountered serious difficulty
n securing hall for its convention.
'owadsys the representatives OF 100000
miners assemble each year, she contin-
ed, and no better body of men is TO be
ound in the world. Moreover, the sig.
ifcanee Of closely knit unit like the
aderation is not underestimated by the
Official parties.
Mrs. Jones was plainly disposed to
iHiuirH ilEhNiN tue Importance WHICH d.
lost people attach to laws and law max
" and conferred parts Of her discussion i,
n the function of the courts and what
Ne was pleased to term the corrupt con-
ition Of the judiciary in the United
tstes. NO one could ever hire me 10
" Your Honor 10 capitalist Judge"
lid Mother Jones, "for / am too pain
lily aware that judiciary hirelings are u
holly without honor The speaker de- u
ored strongly the use of violence in n
Dor troubles, but conceded that violence 7
as sometimes necessary. In this con y
,ction she drew vivid pictures Of her .
vn observations in the mining fields OF .
dorado, Utah. West Virginia and Mich
an. Half humorously, albeit with a
rious vein running through her dis.
urse, she related her own experiences
testifying before congressional com
ittees when the statesmen Of the coun- \,
y thought the time ripe for an investi- /,
ton Of the horrors Of civil warfare. 4,
Toward the close Of her address she y
ok fscetious fling az fivver ships and !,
irope-going peace boats. Mrs. Jones
d her own ideas Of the propriety Of 2
E thing and offered the seemingly sen
Ne suggestion that the money spent on
e project might better be used in inn
owing the conditions OF the working "
N and restoring real peace in the min.
! sections.