You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday February 19, 1915
Denver, Colorado - Mother Jones Aroused by Carnegie to Desire to Throw a Brick
Mother Jones is back in Colorado, and already making headlines in the newspapers of the nation. She returned here recently from New York City by way of Chicago. In New York, she attended sessions of the
Commission on Industrial Relations, and her opinion of the testimony given there was the question put to her by reporters in Denver soon after her arrival.
She answered that President Eliot of Harvard has outlived his usefulness, that John D. Rockefeller Sr. has her pity, and that John D. Rockefeller Jr. could have been of use to society had he not been born rich. The testimony of Andrew Carnegie, she said, aroused in her the desire to throw a brick at him.
It seems that the wealthy society woman, Mrs J. B. Harriman, the only woman to sit on the industrial relations commission, is planning to write a novel based on the Colorado strike. Mother Jones, commenting on this, said:
Of course she can't write a book like that because she doesn't know enough about it . But I gave her a few pointers and let it go at that.
From The Boston Globe of February 19, 1915:
"OUTGROWN USEFULNESS."
"Mother" Jones Says Pres Emeritus Eliot of Harvard
"Should Have Died 10 Years Ago."
DENVER, Feb 18-In an interview here today "Mother" Jones, who has just returned from New York, expressed pity for John D. Rockefeller Sr. because he is old and ill; commends his son as a sincere young man, who was unfortunate in being born rich, and says Dr. Charles W. Eliot of Harvard should have died 10 years ago.
Andrew Carnegie's facetiousness as a witness before the Federal Commission filled her with a desire to throw a brick at him.
"Pres Emeritus Eliot of Harvard University should have died 10 years ago," she said, "If this had happened to him he might have made a name for himself. As it is now he's out grown his usefulness."
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From Pennsylvania's The Scranton Truth of February 19, 1915:
MOTHER JONES WANTED TO THROW BRICK AT CARNEGIE
DENVER, Colo., Feb. 19.-When Andrew Carnegie testified before the industrial relations commission in New York he only aroused in "Mother" Jones, noted strike leader, a desire to throw a brick at him. Returning here from the East "Mother" Jones today told of some of her impressions of the noted witnesses appearing before the commission. Of John D Rockefeller, Sr., she said:
"I felt sorry for the old man. Wealth cannot buy health. He's lost the latter, and probably won't be permitted to enjoy the former long."
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From the New York Tribune of February 6, 1915:
From The Washington Times of February 19, 1915:
Mrs. J. B. Harriman's Book
Displeases Mother Jones
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DENVER, Col., Feb. 19.-Mrs. J. Borden Harriman is writing a novel, with the Colorado strike as its motive, according to "Mother" Jones, who has returned from New York.
"Of course," said Mrs. Jones, "she can't write a book like that because she doesn't know enough about it . But I gave her a few pointers and let it go at that."
"Mother" Jones feels sorry for "old man Rockefeller" because he has no health and will not be able to enjoy his wealthy many more years, but she thinks Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, should have died ten years ago.
Young Rockefeller impressed her favorably. She says he "might have accomplished a lot for the human race had destiny placed him somewhere else at birth."
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SOURCES
The Boston Daily Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts)
-Feb 19, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Scranton Truth
(Scranton, Pennsylvania)
-Feb 19, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Washington Times
(Washington, District of Columbia)
-Feb 19, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
See also:
Industrial relations: final report and testimony
United States Commission on Industrial Relations,
Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly
D.C. Gov. Print. Office, 1916
Volume 8: 6999-8014
https://books.google.com/...
7964-New York, January 29, 1915—10 AM. Present: Chairman Walsh, Commissioners
O'Connell, Lennon, Harriman, Ballard, Weinstock. Garretson. and Commons.
7964-Testimony of Dr. Charles W. Eliot
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 9: 8015-9056
https://books.google.com/...
8266-New York City, February 5, 1915—10 AM. Present: Chairman Walsh.
Commissioners O'Connell, Lennon, Ballard, Weinstock, Garretson, and Commons.
https://books.google.com/...
8286-PM Session
8286-Mr. Andrew Carnegie
https://books.google.com/...
8297-John D. Rockefeller, Sr
https://books.google.com/...
IMAGES
Mother Jones
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Charles W Eliot
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller Sr
before CIR, Feb 5, 1915
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
Mrs. J. Borden Harriman
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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All Hell Can't Stop Us - Twin Cities Labor Chorus
Now the final battle rages;
Tyrants quake with fear.
Rulers of the New Dark Ages
Know THEIR end is near.
Chorus
Scorn to take the crumbs they drop us;
All is ours by right!
Onward, men! All Hell can't stop us!
Crush the Parasite!
With a world-wide revolution
Bring them to your feet!
They of crime and persecution-
They must work to eat!
Tear the mask of lies asunder;
Let the truth be known;
With a voice of angry thunder,
Rise and claim your own!
Down with Greed and Exploitation;
Tyranny must fall!
Hail to Toil's Emancipation;
Labor shall be all.
-Ralph Chaplin, written in Leavenworth Prison
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