While life remains I shall always
be with you conflict.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Saturday December 15, 1906
Mother Jones Found Campaigning for Comrade Dettrey During November
In the New York Worker of November 3, 1906, under “Party News,” National Secretary J. Mahlon Barnes reported on the whereabouts of Mother Jones:
PARTY NEWS
NATIONAL SECRETARY’S REPORT
The report of National Secretary Barnes to the National Executive Committee is in part as follows:
[…]
“Mother” Jones, in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois and Pennsylvania;…
From the Wilkes-Barre Times of November 5, 1906:
From the Wilkes-Barre Times of November 6, 1906:
THE SOCIALISTS held a final rally in this city last night. William Dettrey and Mother Jones were the chief speakers.
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SOURCES
The Worker
(New York, New York)
“An Organ of the Socialist Party” (SPA)
-Nov 3, 1906
http://www.genealogybank.com/
Wilkes-Barre Times
(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
-Nov 5, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/119451952/
-Nov 6, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/118337094/
IMAGES
Mother Jones, Mar 11, 1905, AtR
http://www.newspapers.com/image/66992169/
Mother Jones, Dettrey f/ Congress, W-B Tx, Nov 5, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/119451952/
Socialist Party, Vote Straight Ticket, Worker p1, Nov 3, 1906
http://www.genealogybank.com/
See also:
J. Mahlon Barnes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Mahlon_Barnes
Socialist Party of America (SPA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/spa/spadownloads-1906-1916.html
Socialist Party of Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Pennsylvania
Fro more on William H Dettrey as local union leader:
UMWA, Minutes of 1906 Convention
(Search with: dettrey)
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=eRA-AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA1
From The Scranton Truth [PA] of May 31, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/50165945/
SOCIALISTS NAME MINERS’ LEADER FOR CONGRESS
President Dettrey, of District No. 7, U. M. W. of A.,
Nominated at Convention In Wilkes-Barre.
Children of Mother Jones
-written and performed by Pete Duffy