You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday September 23, 1915
Trinidad, Colorado - Rockefeller Arrives to Inspect Properties of C. F. & I. Company
John D Rockefeller Jr
John D. Rockefeller Jr. has arrived in Trinidad, Colorado to inspect the properties of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Meanwhile, in the filthy unsanitary jail located in Trinidad, we can find the class-war prisoners, former striking miners, who have been incarcerated for many long months. Among them is John R. Lawson, now convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison by Judge Hillyer, a judge who was formerly employed by the very company whose properties John D. Jr. has come to inspect.
Whether or not Mr. Rockefeller will visit the imprisoned miners remains to be seen.
From Akron, Ohio, Mother Jones advises the young Mr. Rockefeller to hold mass meetings and to listen to the miners without threat of firing or blacklisting. She further states that he should rise above "the level of the high-class burglars and economic leeches which now surround him."
From the Kansas Lawrence Daily Journal-World of September 20, 1915:
ROCKEFELLER TO COLORADO
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John D. Jr., is Inspecting Properties
of Fuel and Iron Co.
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Accepted Invitation of "Mother" Jones
to visit Scenes of Strike Troubles
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John D Rockefeller Jr shakes hands with Mother Jones, New York Times, Jan 31, 1915
Trinidad, Colo., Sept. 20.-John D. Rockefeller, Jr., arrived here today for an inspection of the properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. His party will spend two or three weeks in Colorado.
The Colorado visit of Mr. Rockefeller, as active representative of the principal owning interest of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, has been planned since early in the year. It had its inception at the New York hearing before the federal Commission on Industrial Relations.
On January 27 Mr. Rockefeller was a witness before the commission. After leaving the stand the capitalist stopped to speak to "Mother" Jones, Colorado labor enthusiast, and she invited him to visit Colorado "while the ashes of Ludlow are still hot."
Other labor leaders present at the hearing urged Mr. Rockefeller to visit the scenes of the Colorado coal miners' strike recently ended.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Chicago Day Book of September 22, 1915:
"JOHN D., JR., DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO AT IT,"
-MOTHER JONES
John D Rockefeller Jr and Mother Jones, New York Sun, Jan 27, 1915
Akron, O., Sept. 22-Mother Jones today stated that Rockefeller started out wrong to "obtain first-hand information" when he was accompanied on his inspection tours by the officials and managers of his mines.
[Mother Jones said:]
He should hold mass meetings if he wishes to accomplish any good at all...Then he should invite the men to speak without fear of losing their jobs and tell of the horrible oppression.
Rockefeller might want better conditions in the mine. But to get them he must rise [above?] the level of the high-class burglars and economic leeches which now surround him.
[Photograph added.]
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SOURCES
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
(Lawrence, Kansas)
-Sept 20, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Sept 22, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
John D Rockefeller Jr, 1915
http://en.academic.ru/...
John D Rockefeller Jr
shakes hands with Mother Jones,
New York Times, Jan 31, 1915
pdf! http://query.nytimes.com/...
John D Rockefeller Jr and Mother Jones,
NY Sun, Jan 27, 1915
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
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They'll Never Keep Us Down - Hazel Dickens
So working people get your help from your own kind
Your welfare on the rich man’s mind
Your welfare on the rich man’s mind
Your welfare on the rich man’s mind
They want the power in their hands
Just to keep out of the worker’s hands
Your welfare on the rich man’s mind
-Hazel Dickens
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