The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
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MOTHER JONES AND THE MINERS.
An Epoch IN Labor History.

Although person. book series Of flash
law and order the carefully cultivated theory that Americans
rights with rifles something alien to American
labor history e that b O rs Of p e
she says G on first page Of eT w nave ays Oee
telling the crowd of miners to their money and buy guns
be- The operators to Violence this old
labor movement half century,
a s1 Final Ss @ s b s'. aav
1.-The mi miners lost because they had only the constitution The other
had not S been for this m t the miners
which Mother Jones of which she her
biography Of miners shot in the back of miners dubbed to DEATH
raped children unconscOusness
merely badges Of the companies
hearts, Mother Jones would been the figure she today
seems she started out to be dressmaker
legal nchings followed the Haymark affair
struggles the United Mine Workers Of America then
Her life he aso @
Children dead Of filth o% living msny hOue and %
s to %. on tine @ . wages she would
to Roaring Branch Pennsylvania might be Hazon
hearcE broken with long struggle ready
wit bolster up the tagging courage and send men back to face
the the black death starvation the bloody brutal
they face nevertheless or suffer slower but even more certain
destruction in the cOmpany's power after lost strike
She tells Of plenty plain murder like the shooting Holly
Grove West Virginia less than the Ludlow affair."
strongly resembling it, showing the coal accs
County, deputies guards arored
train with eating guns through Holly Grove the tent colony Of the
the fired killing and wounng the seepes the
name Of Epstaw and picked couple of children and told them
s 5sP for their lives His feet were shot Off No one was ar
this. Mountain West Virginia.
forgotten covered by the stories of like it that
GAS the miners homes could sobbing
with pushed open mattress wet with blood
lay miner His brains had been blown while he
I'm five other shacks lay dead In Of them baby boy
saw me- he said Mother Jones' bring back want
"The coroner had been muir
dred in their beds while they peacefully slept shot by the
be repeated
here it formally
a y rich syf5 m y E % and making memory
tOrOus and drove from the state ranload
scabhders Herrn only carried tradition old the history of
too She was convicted of
murder once Another time plot made to arrest her trivial
charge and burn her in the coke would
with her back , deed kun who had boosted
but that time there were too many miners around for the
her clashes with the miners union officials too In fact
the slow growth of dsiuon in the union bureaucracy
dent wilson, in Pennsylvania H me D'''fi'' Ffs-
A ons by one he killed his chickens and his hogs Everything he
hardship that the rank and file of the organization
And Organizer Miles Daugherty shamon quit
@ and s Others 5 he p 5 his a Sy o s
the union Organizers did salary those days and
they did heroic unselfsh
Now union officials draw too much salary International President
$4,000
Frank Harrington suddenly left his
covered he drawing Peabody Company
In the preface this book Clarence
President John MtcheMother Jones
poor betrayed strike after strike and died with
dlarsHe not dishonest but he point that was
his love of fattery" All, but that milion
Mother Jones not ready think evil Of labor still
believes in John Fitzpatrick because
the great steel strike There chapter the strike
tells Of their lives constant danger of the
of Fosters office which chairs could
would be raided meeting and bayoheng
Of workers. and workers families
The fact that Foster went from this object to
place the ranks of Communism Fitzpatrick
from step to another--hs is Z
Neither is there word in the book Lewis directly
only by implication and of group class of
bueauerat officials which she depes In the chapter significant
y entitled Progress in Spite of Leaders,
modern leaders labor who have the thorv