You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday June 30, 1904
Chicago, Illinois - Mother Jones Speaks at Mass Meeting for Socialists' Campaign
As the Socialist Party of America kicked off its campaign in the city of Chicago, Mother Jones spoke at three different meetings on Sunday.
The Inter Ocean provided this disapproving coverage in its June 27th edition:
SOCIALISTS OPEN CAMPAIGN IN CITY
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They Begin Meetings, Believing Colorado Situation
Affords Good Material for Their Propaganda.
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Chicago socialists opened their campaign yesterday with a series of mass meetings called to discuss the labor situation in Colorado. The followers of Karl Marx see in the action of the military authorities and the citizens' alliances in Colorado good material for furthering the socialist propaganda, and they have determined to make the most of it while the attention of the public is directed upon it.
In the afternoon mass meetings were held in Schoenhofen's hall on the Northwest side; Vorwaert's hall, West Twelfth street and Western avenue; South Chicago, and Pullman. In the evening a meeting was held in Lincoln Turner hall on the North Side.
"Mother" Jones was the principal speaker at the three meetings held in the city. She is fresh from the seat of trouble, and, as she was deported by the state troops from Colorado because of her incendiary utterances, she is viewed as a martyr by some of the socialists. Her speeches yesterday were of the most radical character and she was greeted with applause by her hearers.
"Mother" Jones Criticises Labor.
At the meeting in Schoenhofen's hall she taunted the members of organized labor with standing idly by without trying to help the Western miners,
You, the members of organized labor..stand idly by like a lot of whipped cowards, without raising your voice in protest, while the miners in Colorado are being persecuted by a band of assassins such as this country never saw before. It is time for you to arouse yourselves to the fact that you are being plundered and robbed by your capitalist masters. Governor Peabody is doing more to arouse the workers of the country than all the socialists put together.
This question must be settled, not by capitalist bayonets and bullets, but by the ballot next November. In the darkest days of Russia she committed no such crimes as that committed in Colorado by the paid agents of capitalism in the past nine months. If Lincoln were alive he would call out an army of workers and clean out the military assassins of Colorado.
Speaker Tells of Deportation.
In speaking of her deportation from Colorado she said that at the last meeting she addressed she advised the miners to shoot to kill when their homes were invaded by deputy sheriffs.
When they put me on the train..six of them stood guard, although the train was moving at the rate of forty-five miles and hour. They were afraid this old woman of 65 would jump off the train. One of the kidglove dudes called me "Mother" Jones. "I want to tell you corporation lap dogs that I would not be the mother of one of you for all wealth of this country," I replied.
She charged the agents of the mine owners with responsibility for the explosion of the railroad platform at Independence, through which sixteen nonunion miners lost their lives.
At times during her harangue she became so vehement that she clinched her fists and shrieked at her audience.
There are only two unions in this country..the union of capital and the union of labor. Which are you going to join? You haven't got the money to get in with the capitalists, so you had better get with the honest crowd. The time has arrived when you must realize that you are being robbed, and you must take possession of the wealth producing machinery of the country and operate it for yourselves.
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SOURCE
The Inter Ocean
(Chicago, Illinois)
-of June 27, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
1). SPA Debs/Hanford Poster 1904
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
2). Mother Jones
http://www.greatthoughtstreasury.com/...
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Tuesday June 30, 1914
Salt Lake City, Utah - Fellow Worker Joe Hill Found Guilty of Murder in the First Degree
The State of Utah vs. Joseph Hillstrom
On Saturday morning, June 27th at 10 o'clock the jury announced its verdict in the murder trial of Fellow Worker Joe Hill:
We, the Jurors impaneled in the above case, find the defendant Joseph Hillstom guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree as charged in the information.
Both John G. Morrison and his son, Arlin, were shot and killed at their grocery store on January 10, 1914, but Hill was charged with, and now found guilty of, only the murder of the elder Morrison. The evidence in the case was circumstantial, and none of the witnesses were able to positively identify Hill as the murderer. Much was made of the fact that a red bandanna was found near the scene of the crime, and that a similar red bandanna was also found in the room of Joe Hill.
It was thought, but never proved, that the taller of the two assailants was shot by the younger Morrison. Hill was treated for a gunshot wound on the night of the murders. He maintains that he was shot in an argument over a woman, but refuses to name the woman, or the friend who shot him. Joe Hill believes that he should not have to prove his innocence, that the trial was unfair, and that the prosecution utterly failed to prove him guilty.
The jury made no recommendation for clemency, and it is expected that the sentence imposed will be death for Fellow Worker Joe Hill. As he was taken from the courtroom, Hill turned to a reporter for the Deseret Evening News and stated, according to the News, that "he was innocent of the killing and that he would prove it before he got through."
Fellow Worker Joe Hill will be returned to court on July 8th for sentencing.
The Industrial Workers of the World, has not given up its efforts on behalf of the Rebel Songwriter. From the New Orleans Voice of the People:
JOE HILL CASE.
A fellow-worker writes from Salt Lake City as follows:
The court has rushed the case of Joe Hill to trial and would not listen to arguments for a continuance. The Judge is also urging "greater dispatch" on the part of the attorneys in the examination of jurymen. If there had been such a thing as justice in the courts of law Hill would never have had to stand trial, but they know who he is and are determined to get him. They treat him as if he were a desperado and all around dangerous character.
From this it would appear that Joe Hill had written his last song for the Rebels 'round the camp fires of the Social Revolution unless the Reds on the battleline rally to his defense at once. Send all funds to-Ed. Rowan Sec. Local 69, I. W. W., S. W. Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah.
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At a regular business meeting held June 23 by Local 7, Marine Transport Workers,
I. W. W., it was decided that all the profits that are derived from the seventh edition of the I. W. W. Songbook shall be turned over to the Defense Fund for Joe Hill, author of most of the songs, and that we urge all other Locals to take similar action.
Hugo Mattson Sec. L. U. 7.
SOURCES
The Case of Joe Hill
-by Philip S Foner
International Publishers, 1965
The Voice of the People
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
-June 30, 1914
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
IMAGES
1). Joe Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
2). The Voice of the People, June 30, 1914, Masthead
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
3). The Voice of the People, April 16, 1914, L. U. 7 MTW IWW
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
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H/T Shockwave
I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night - Joan Baez
From San Diego up to Maine
In every mine and mill
Where workers strike and organize
Says he, You'll find Joe Hill
Says he, You'll find Joe Hill
-by Alfred Hayes,
& music by Earl Robinson
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