You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday April 16, 1905
Houghton, Michigan - Mother Jones Arrives to Assist Strikers and WFM Organizers
Mother Jones has arrived in Michigan's Copper Country where the Western Federation of Miners has been attempting to organize the copper miners. She is much needed in that effort where the miners face discharge and blacklisting whenever they attempt to organize.
The streetcar workers of that area are also in need of Mother's assistance. They have been on strike since February 25th, and Mother will, no doubt, encourage them to stand strong in their strike. The strike is against the Houghton County Traction Company, and is being led by the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees.
Newspapers around the nation are reporting on the arrival of our most famous "labor agitator." We offer two examples below.
From The New York Times of April 15, 1905:
MOTHER JONES IN MICHIGAN.
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Street Railway and Copper Mine
Strikers Call Her to State.
HOUGHTON, Mich., April 14.-Mrs. Mary Jones, known as "Mother" Jones, a labor agitator, arrived in the copper country to-day, drawn by the street railway and mine strikes. Because of her efforts as an organizer of miners in the Colorado labor troubles she was deported. She will speak in the copper-country towns.
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From The Minneapolis Journal of April 15, 1905:
OPERATORS WILL NOT TEMPORIZE
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COPPER MINES WILL BE CLOSED
ABSOLUTELY IF MEN STRIKE.
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No Concessions Will Be Considered and Owners
Will Prepare for an Indefinite Siege-
Federation Organizers Believed to Be Quietly
Agitating a General Strike.
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Special to The Journal.
Houghton, Mich., April 15,-In expectation of a general strike on May 1, the mine operators of Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties have decided in case of a walkout to make no concessions whatever, and close down absolutely for an indefinite period.
The conservative element among the Calumet & Hecla employees are laboring hard to prevent a strike. In case of a general strike the old men may not get their jobs back when a settlement is reached.
"Mother" Jones is here and Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, has been a visitor. The federation organizers say they are not agitating a strike, but the evidence is to the contrary.
Sixteen thousand men would be affected directly, and as many more indirectly by a general strike.
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[Photograph added.]
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SOURCES
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Apr 15, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Minneapolis Journal
(Minneapolis, Minnesota)
-Apr 15, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Mother Jones
http://www.biography.com/...
Charles Moyer
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
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