The strike is serious.
Get together and you will beat the Herzogs
and help every toiler of the sweatshops.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday August 23, 1905
From the Appeal to Reason: Missouri Tour by Mother Jones Met with Enthusiasm
The Appeal of August 19th carried this report on the recent tour of Missouri made by Mother Jones:
"MOTHER" JONES' TOUR.
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"Mother' Jones' tour of Missouri has evidently stirred the comrades of that neck of the woods to renewed activity. Reports coming in from the various points scintillate with enthusiasm and faith in an early victory for the principles of international socialism. At Novinger a wonderful meeting was held, and the activities of Local Secretary L. A. Wise were well rewarded; 1,500 people attended the meeting. The miners as might be expected, predominated, but bosses, ministers, mine owners and others could be seen, all anxious to hear the news of the good time coming. At Bevier a successful meeting was held in the park. Here is where Hy Thompson and his fighting band stand by the guns in good days and bad. It was a day never to be forgotten. "Mother" Jones was at her best, and fairly burned the truth into her hearers. The miners of Bevier had only worked five days in five weeks during the period of professed prosperity, and were in splendid condition to accept the plain facts handed out by "Mother" Jones.
At Sedalia a large delegation of the ladies of the "Labor League" met "Mother" at the depot and formed a body guard that was different from the one she had at Cripple Creek, and escorted her to a hotel instead of a bull-pen. An immense meeting was held in the courthouse. At Kansas City "Mother" spoke in Industrial Hall to a packed house. Her speech bristled with epigrams and scathing sarcasm, and was well received. It was a new gospel to many.
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The New York Times of August 18th reported that Mother joins will soon be in New York:
"Mother" Jones Coming Here.
"Mother" Jones, the woman organizer of the coal mining districts, will reach New York in about two weeks to address meetings in support of the candidacy of Algernon Lee, the Socialist candidate for Mayor, and Morris Brown, the Socialist candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen. She will remain for several weeks, endeavoring to make recruits for the Social Democratic Party.
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SOURCES
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Aug 19, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Aug 18, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGE
Mother Mary Harris Jones, Miners Angel
http://www.biography.com/...
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