El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-17
MOTHER JONES ROASTS MILITIA:
SAYS THEY ARE LITTLE KIDS
Woman Labor Agtator Makes Fiery Speech at Cleveland
Square; Declares Diamonds of Street Car Officials
Wives BLOOD of Little Children Says She
Wants to Die on Firing Line.

babies and their future. The employ
ers have unions. pretty good ones. too
And they stand together like all high
class thieves
Fl Cents An Hour.
You street car men pay so cents
for the privilege of sitting in room
and waiting for the privilege of be-
ing called out to work. No slaves ever
had to do that Would any of you
city officials work for q cents an hour
No. not one of you. Then why do YOU
expect the street car men to work for
such a wage2
While the wives Of you street car
men are wondering where the next
meal is coming from, the wives OF
your masters are struttinE about with
their dresses cut to here C"MOther'
Jones indicated point near her waist
line) and their hands loaded with dia-
monds. These diamonds are the blood
of your little children whom they have
robbed and starved
Belongs On Firing Line.
4 tell you il is the women who must
organize to help the men We want nc
Sunday school people. We want prac-
teal men and women I do not belong
in the church or the parlor or the club
room I belong on the firing line At
the same time, I do not believe in muir
der or violence The day Of brute force
and violence has passed We must get
what we want by other means
THE avenues by which we make our
bread are taken away from US and
then We 90 to China and tell the Chi
nese what fine Christians we are Every
tiary. We have Christianity on one
side and robbery and thievery on the
other.
Guest of state
you fellows fill the jails There
would be no jails but for US. The other
fellows don't know how 10 build them
I have been arrested as many times
as you have. I had the men in uni
forms take care of me- I wasn't like
you. a guest Of the city; 1 was a guest
OF the state.
4 went to the strike in West Vir-
GINA They sent the militia with me.
I am not afraid of the militia; most
OF them are only little kids One OF
the most pathetic sights I have ever
seen in my life was when I trained my
boys up there near the militia camp
I took them over to the church in the
face of the militiaman. The nearer
you get TO Jesus. the safer you are.
The state paid 100000 TO the militia
to crush those miners, but they did not
do il
Sentenced To Penitentiary.
7 was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary there. For five weeks
was the only military prisoner. Their
scheme was to get rid of the best men
by putting them in prison.
4 want to ask why you allowed the
gunner and scabs to come here You
yourselves patronize the 'scabs' You
will have a union card in your pocket
and a scab hat on your head. Why
don't you look to see if the things YOU
buy from your merchants have the
union label?"
Compliments President.
Mother Jones gave a striking pic
ture of the scenes at Ludlow. Colo dur
ing the coal miners strike and described
the shooting down of the men by the
militia She complimented president
wilson but said she hoped senator
Borah, Of Idaho. would be president
some day because Of the stand ne has
taken toward labor