New Britain herald., 1930-05-01
LABOR CRUSADER
 AGAINST PARKER
Mother Jones Watches Battle in
 Senate e-1M Today

Washington, May 1 (UP)-From her sick bed in a Maryland farm house, little Irish woman who for S5 years has fought tirelessly for the cause of labor--even defying ma chine guns-is watching the battle in the senate over the nomination of John J. Parker to the supreme court.
 Even the hustle incidental to pre- parations for todays celebration of her tooth birthday anniversary. fails to distract Mother Jones from her consuming interest in the Parker debate.
 For this is labor's fight. as she sees it, and the outcome is just as important to her as that Of any of the historic struggles she partici- pated in during her picturesque ca reer.
 Was Good Man
 "As I remember John Parker. he was a good man." Mother Jones told the United Press today. But these yellow dog contracts, It's things like those that got me start ed fighting for labor when I was only Is years old. I haven't chang ed a whit since.'
 Mother Jones. whose full name is Mrs. Mary Harris Jones, hasn't been able to read newspaper accounts of organized labor's fight against Parker, as her bright blue eyes are failing. However. Mrs. Walter Bur gess, with whom she lives, keeps her well informed on this, as on all other affairs of the day.
 Mother Jones is confident labor will win this fight, all the more. she explains, because her old friend, Senator Borah, is leading the oppo- sition to the North Carolina jurist.
 Lived Hard Life
 i've lived a hard life, but I'd be willing to go through so more years of it to see Senator Borah in the White House" the ged labor cru sader said. She then told how she had first met Borah in Idaho years ago when he was a youthful states attorney.
 Well aware of the aged woman's feelings toward prohibiton-she terms the law d "humbug" and the worst affliction the country has-the interviewer pointed out Senator Eorah was perhaps the most jealous Of the drys in the senate.
 'Oh, we could make him get over that" she retorted with chuckle, settling herself better among her pillows.
 Mother Jones is looking forward to the party with all the eager ex- pectation of child, for she has stated often she would die happy if she could only live to be 100 years olid. Knowing this, Dr. H. H. How lett. who has attended her since her near-fatal illness last December has decided to allow her to celc brate the day by leaving her bed.
 To Receive 100 Guests
 She will receive her guests-mora than a hundred. Many high in of- f.cial life and labor circles, plan to make 2. pilgrimage to the little, out of-the-way home for the occa- sion.
 Mother Jones was vigorous in dis cussng the recent tragedy at the Ohio state prison.
 The damn brutes." she said, then launched into another tirade against prohibition, which she blamed for overcrouding the countrys prisons.
 Served Three Sentences
 Mother Jones knows quite a bit about prisons, having served sen tences in three after being arrested on many occasions. She told today oi spending more than three months in a Colorado prison because T wouldn't go down on my knees to the governor
 T just told him to go to hell" she said, laughing at the recollec, ton.
 AS her birth day falls on May 2, a day famous in labor annals. she was asked what May day stood out most clearly in her mind.
 I'll never forget my May day in the West Virginia mines" she an- swered quickly. It was on that oc- casion that she walked, alone, \over hill in the face of a machine gun and bluffed crew of strike-break |. CTS into thinking she had 500 armed miners nearby.