You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 11, 1914
From The New York Times: Mother Jones Requests Audience with Rockefeller
Mother Jones Leading Strikers' March in Trinidad
From page four of today's
Times:
HOPES TO SEE ROCKEFELLER.
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Mother Jones Will Urge Him to Meet Miners' Representative.
Mother Jones, who arrived yesterday from the West, and is staying at the Union Square Hotel, said last night that this morning she would attempt to see William Rockefeller, at 26 Broadway. After that, she asserted, she would go to Pocantico Hills to see John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to whom she has written announcing her coming.
She says she thinks the younger Mr. Rockefeller will see her. She believes that he means well, and has only been misled by bad advisers. She is confident, she asserts, that she can get him to agree to a conference with a representative of the miners. She says she represents neither the I. W. W. nor the Socialists-only the United Mine Workers of America.
Toward the end of the week she will address a meeting called by the Central Federated Union, and on next Sunday she will speak before the Manhattan Single Tax Club.
Bouck White
Also from today's Times, a story at the top of the front page of protesters, led by Bouck White, arrested while attempting to speak out on the Colorado situation at the church of John D. Rockefeller Jr.:
ROCKEFELLER'S FOES INVADE HIS CHURCH
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Bouck White and Ten of His Associates Arrested After Interrupting Calvary Service.
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FIGHT USHERS AND POLICE
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Followers of Leader of Socialist Propaganda Carry Him from Night Court on Their Shoulders.
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Following a fight in the Calvary Baptist Church in West Fifty-seventh Street, which John D. Rockefeller and his son attend, Bouck White and fifteen of his followers from the Church of the Social Revolution, were ejected at 11:40 o'clock yesterday morning.
White and ten of those who invaded the church with him were arrested. They spent the afternoon in cells in the West Forty-seventh Street Police Station, and then they were taken to the Night Court. One of the persons arrested was a woman who was charged with her husband with creating a disturbance in the church. Two of the men arrested fought with ushers who attempted to eject them, and both required the services of an ambulance surgeon when they got to the sidewalk. They wore bandages when they appeared in the Night Court, which covered bruised eyes.
Mary R. Towle, a lawyer with an office at 1 Broadway, appeared for White when he was arraigned in the Night Court. She asked that White and all of his companions should be paroled in her custody until Tuesday in order that witnesses might be summoned for the defense. The request was granted, and as the defendants left the court room they were followed by more than 200 of the associates. When half way down the stairs White was boosted to the shoulders of members of his church and was carried in that position half a block west to Lexington Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street.
There White was cheered, and he made a brief speech in which he said he was thrown to the floor of the center aisle of the church and suffered many scratches on his arms and legs. The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of the Church of the Ascension was in court as a character witness for White, but he was not called. White said that he was but putting into practice, in making "a friendly visit to a neighboring church," the things he had learned at the Union Theological Seminary, of which he was a graduate. "Dr. Woelfkin had planted the detectives to receive me," he told his followers. "He treated me like a horse thief and a criminal," he continued, "while all I wanted was less than five minutes to discuss with a brother clergyman the topic of this social crisis that is gathering thunder all around us. I chose the right time to speak, while the announcements were being given out."
While the invaders were being forced out of the church most of the congregation stood on chairs, calling out encouragement to the ushers as they struggled to clear the aisles. There were a few calls of "Let 'em speak," while White and his followers voiced sentiments embracing frequent mention of John D. Rockefeller, Jr......
And right next to the above article, at the top of the front page, we find news regarding the orders sent by President Wilson to the Federal troops in the Colorado strike zone. A second article follows which depicts the political difficulties of the incompetent tool of the coal operators, Governor Ammons, Democrat of Colorado.
STRIKEBREAKERS BANNED BY WILSON
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Orders Sent to Colorado to Prevent Mine Owners Employing Imported Labor.
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TIME LIMIT ON GUNS, TOO
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Federal Troops Will Require Surrender Within Certain Time-
Constabulary Fight in Legislature.
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Special to The New York Times.
TRINIDAD, Col, May 10.-President Wilson, through secretary of War Garrison, to-day sent an order to Col. Lockett, commander of the Federal troops in the Colorado strike zone, to stop the transportation of any strikebreakers and to disperse to their homes outside the State all non-resident miners who had come in since the Ludlow battle.
The President further announced that a time limit would be set at once in which the surrender of arms must be completed.
It was also announced that an order wold be issued from Washington shortly permitting the re-establishment of the Ludlow tent colony on the site of the one destroyed by fire and machine gun assault on April 20, when two women and eleven children were suffocated in a "safety pit" and strikers and militiamen were killed in the fighting.
Joseph M. Satterthwaite, editor of the union newspaper, which yesterday published a charge that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company had hidden its machine guns and a wagonload of arms and ammunition, said to-day that Major Holbrook, U. S. A., had demanded that a retraction be printed in Monday's issue of the paper, and that proof of the front page be submitted to the military authorities before the issue appeared on the streets. Mr. Satterthwaite said that he considered the demand an attempt to censor news, and indicated that the retraction would not be published. He declared the the statement published in Saturday's issue was founded on fact.
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Special to The New York Times.
DENVER, May 10.-Gov. Ammons's State Constabulary Bill, the only remaining measure of his call not acted upon by the special session of the Legislature, will be brought to the front to-morrow. It promises the only real fight of the session-a fight within the ranks of the dominant party-the Democrats. The bill's origin is attributed in most quarters to the coal companies. The Democratic leaders, it is said, may try to push it through despite the bitter adverse public opinion. But there are others who will fight its passage through fear of the effect it might have on the party. Gov. Ammons himself is said to have given up hope of putting the measure through.
Reports from the strike zones indicate that all was quiet there to-day, the Federal troops being in complete control of the situation. Some of the strikers indicated an unwillingness to surrender their arms to Col. Lockett's troopers, but it is said that within a few days all arms will be out of the hands of individuals in the strike territory.
The court-martial for the trial of the militia officers and men who are alleged to have participated in the Ludlow massacre will convene to-morrow. Major E. J. Boughton, Judge Advocate, will not sit at the trial, because he wrote the military report recommending the court-martial. He will be succeeded by Capt. E. A. Smith.
As the responsible officer, Major E. J. [Patrick] Hamrock will be one of the accused. Others who may be tried are Lieut. K. E. Linderfeldt, who, it is alleged, clubbed Louis Tikas, a strike leader, with his rifle-Tikas subsequently died-and possibly Capt. Carson. In addition, there will be numerous privates and minor officers among the accuse,
Unless Gov. Ammons within forty-eight ours answers the request of a committee of women for action to their report on the Ludlow battle, charging the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company with responsibility, 5,000 suffragists will march to the Capitol, invade the special session of the Legislature, and camp on the Capitol grounds until he does reply-so says Mrs. Alma V. Lafferty, ex-member of the Legislature, and now President of the Colorado Women's Peace Association.
"One thing we women will impress upon the Governor," said Mrs. Lafferty, "is that the militia must not be returned to the strike fields. There must be peace before the Federal troops are withdrawn. If the militia returns there will be the worst bloodshed the country has ever seen. There will be a revolution. The State must be aroused to this before it is too late."
SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-of May 11, 1914
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Alma V Lafferty
Women's Peace Association
See also:
The Ludlow Massacre
-by Walter H. Fink
Williamson-Haffner, Denver, Colorado
1914
The Report of the Women's Peace Association
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For more on the Women's Peace Association v Governor Ammons
https://archive.org/...
Photos:
Mother Jones Leads March in Trinidad
http://zinnedproject.org/...
Bouck White about 1915
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Alma V Lafferty, Women's Peace Association
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Sunday May 11, 2014
More on the letter sent by Mother Jones to John D Rockefeller Jr.
On May 14th, 1914 the New York Call printed the following letter from Mother Jones, stating that the registered letter was rejected when it was delivered at 26 Broadway:
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Esq.
26 Broadway
Dear Sir-
As you may have noticed in the newspapers, I am visiting New York for the purpose of directing public opinion in mining conditions is Colorado.
Before going before the public in a series of meetings now being arranged before civic bodies, trade unions, single tax leagues and other representative societies, it occurs to me that, out of fairness, a personal visit to you for the purpose of laying before you the exact facts in the entire matter would be in order.
I feel quite sure that I have in my possession facts and data which you have not been provided with, and which I would take great pleasure in laying before you in the course of an interview, if you make an appointment within the next day or two.
No "demonstration" is intended, and I merely wish to preset to your fair minded consideration the entire truth of the Colorado situation.
As evidence of my intentions and good faith-should such be required-I will be accompanied by Hon. Alfred J. Boulton, a well known Brooklyn official, and Hon. William Lustgarten, the distinguished single taxer and real estate investor. I would like them to be present at our interview.
Trusting you will see fit to make this appointment, preferably for 11 o'clock Wednesday morning next, I remain very truly yours.
MOTHER JONES
SOURCE
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
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Bread and Roses-Kate Vikstrom
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!
-James Oppenheim
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