I am as ready to die with you now
as I have been ready to fight
with you in the past.
-Mother Jones
Mother Jones News for March: Found Traveling in Texas
Mother Jones was found in Texas during the month of March. She traveled throughout the state and gave speeches under the auspices of the state committee of the Socialist Party. Mother spoke on the the subject of Socialism and also voiced support for Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood, and George Pettibone of Western Federation of Miners, now imprisoned in Ada County Jail of Boise through the machinations of the Mine Owners of Colorado and Idaho.
From The Oasis of Nogales, Arizona,
of March 2, 1907:
MOTHER JONES, “the labor union Joan of Arc,” has come to Arizona to bear a hand in the attempted unionization of Bisbee.
From the Appeal to Reason of March 2, 1907:
Mother Jones.
“Mother: Jones will fill the following dates in Texas: San Antonio, February 26th; Center Point, February 27th; Kerrville, February 28th; San Antonio, March 1st; Lytle, March 2d; Corpus Christi, March 4th, 5th, 6th; Hallettsville, March 7th; Columbus, March 9th; El Campo, March 11th; Alvin, March 13th, 14th; Galveston, March 15th; Raywood, March 16th; Sour Lake, March 18th, 19th, 20th; Batson, March 21st, 22d, 23d.
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ARMY COLUMN.
[Appeal Army]
—–[…..]
“You will find enclosed money order for $5 to pay for the enclosed yearly subscriptions. You can tell by the names that we are invading the mighty plutes domain. “Mother” Jones will be here the 4th, 5th, 6th of March and we hope to boost up the local.”-W. S. Pittillo, Corpus Christi, Tex.
[…..]
From The Houston Post of March 2, 1907:
“Mother” Jones to Visit Hallettsville.
(Houston Post Special.)HALLETTSVILLE, Texas, March 1.-The socialist local club will have Mrs. “Mother” Jones to speak here on March 7, at the court house. She will discuss socialism and will refer also to the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone affair.
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From the New York Daily People of March 4, 1907:
Note: The Daily People is the official organ of the Socialist Labor Party, bitter rival of the Socialist Party of America:
CORRESPONDENCE
“REVOLT” ON EXHIBITION IN TEXAS.
To the Daily and Weekly People-The party of fifty-seven varieties, otherwise the Socialist party [Socialist Party of America], held a meeting last night at the corner of Utah and San Antonio streets. “Mother” Jones was the principal speaker. Her talk dealt in generalities, including statistics on wealth production and distribution, child and woman labor and an appeal for the workers to get together. She did not refer to the I. W. W. and but once to the Socialist party, and when she stated that if Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were hung there would be a revolt of the working class. I wondered if the said “revolt” would be conducted by that middle class political expression, the Socialist party and its economic twin, the A. F. of L., and how far the Gompers gang would go when the bosses and the General Managers Association drew their sacred contracts on them?
As a sentimental appeal “Mother” Jones’ speech was a success, as a revolutionary talk it was fine, but for a hard common sense practical application of revolutionary practice it was a failure. If the workers want to invite another Commune butchery let them follow the lead of the Socialist party and the A. F. of L. pure and simplers and they will get it.
At the conclusion of her talk “Mother” Jones had a collection taken up which she stated was to be used as an addition to the Moyer-Haywood defense fund. A few Debs books were sold and the Appeal to Reason distributed. Attendance about two hundred.
A. S. Dowler.
El Paso, Tex.,February 26.———-
From The Dallas Morning News of March 7, 1907:
STATE BREVITIES.
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS.
[…..]
Corpus Christi, Tex, March 6-Several thousand people heard Mother Jones in this city last night. She rehearsed the horrors of strikes and factory life, condemning the dealings of capital with the laborers. The solution of all evil conditions was cited as the Socialistic theories.
[…..]
From the Appeal to Reason, page 2, of March 9, 1907:
THE VOICE OF PROTEST.
—Protest meetings [on behalf of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone] are still being held all over the United States. The Hudson County, N. J., labor unions, Socialists and labor sympathizers held a monster meeting at Jersey City, where over 1,000 labor union representatives were present. The audience was addressed by Franklin H. Wentworth and others.
At Portland, Ore., over 400 representatives of the labor unions and Socialist organizations marched through the streets to the tune of the Marseillaise, to the armory building, where they were addressed by Vincent Harper.
“Mother” Jones spoke to 2,200 people at Globe, Ariz., on the western situation, and, judging from reports, this is one of the most enthusiastic meetings held any place in the United States…..
From the Appeal to Reason, page 3, of March 9, 1907:
Mother Jones in Texas.
Union labor men went wild and threw up their hats at Corpus Christi when it was announced that “Mother” Jones would visit that point.
The following corrections are made in the routing of “Mother” Jones in Texas:
Hallettsville, March 7; Columbus, March 9; Sealy, March 11-12; El Campo, March 13; Alvin, March 15-16; Galveston, March 17; Sour Lake, March 18-19-20; Batson, March 21-22-23; Raywood, March 25; Liberty, March 26; New Caney, March 28; Waller, March 29.
Moyer, Hywood and Pettibone protest meetings have been held at numerous points throughout the state, including Waco, San Antonio, Galveston, El Campo and Ft. Worth.
Comrade J. C. Thompson is doing some “sharp-shooting” in northeast Texas, having spoken at Texarkana, Clarksville and other points.
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From the Texas Liberty Vindicator of March 22, 1907:
Correspondents.
RAYWOOD ITEMS.
—–[…..]
Mother Jones will speak on socialism March 27th, in the church at Raywood.
[…..]
From The Liberty Vindicator of March 29, 1907:
The City In Brief.
[…..]
Mother Jones will lecture tonight (Thursday) at the court house, at 8 o’clock. Subject-Socialism.
[…..]
From The Dallas Morning News of March 31, 1907:
“MOTHER” JONES COMING.
—–Noted Socialist Speaker and Worker
to Appear In Dallas.Mother Jones, a noted woman agitator, whose work in the coal fields of Colorado and Pennsylvania is said to have been strikingly successful, arousing much Socialistic thought, will speak in Dallas very shortly, it is stated by George Clifton Edwards, who, with other Socialists, will try to perfect arrangements for a lecture in this city. To arrange for Mother Jones’ coming a full meeting of Dallas Socialists is desired this afternoon at 2;30 o’clock in the hall opposite the postoffice.
The lectures of this woman in Texas are to be delivered under the auspices of the Texas State committee of the Socialist party.
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SOURCES
The Oasis
(Nogales, Arizona)
-Mar 2, 1907
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032933/1907-03-02/ed-1/seq-14/
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 2, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67586823/
-Mar 9, 1907, page 2
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67586826/
-Mar 9, 1907, page 3
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67586827/
The Houston Post
(Houston, Texas)
-Mar 2, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/94854810
Daily People
“Published Every Morning by
Socialist Labor Party”
& with IWW Union Label
(New York, New York)
-Mar 4, 1907, page 2
http://www.genealogybank.com/
The Dallas Morning News
(Dallas, Texas)
-Mar 7, 1907, page 9
http://www.genealogybank.com/
-Mar 31, 1907, page 7
http://www.genealogybank.com/
The Liberty Vindicator
(Liberty, Texas)
-Mar 22, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/52529937
-Mar 29, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/52530008/
IMAGE
Mother Jones, Mar 11, 1905, AtR
http://www.newspapers.com/image/66992169/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday February 26, 1907
From the Appeal to Reason: Mother Jones on Idaho Injustice
-Mother Jones Calls for Nation-Wide Protests on Behalf of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
https://weneverforget.org/hellraisers-journal-mother-jones-calls-for-nation-wide-protests-on-behalf-of-moyer-haywood-and-pettibone/
Tag: Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case
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