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l/LWAU tIVilk X kuiyvi- UU’UJiU^. tllv; tliuiuilt;Another leader Mother Jones dislikes, is the late John Mitchell 'of the U.M W.A. wlio fastened the autocratic constitution on the organization under • which Lewis 1st trying to seize the Illinois district and its treasury. She tells of a dramatic occasion v/hen Mitchell’s henchmen were circulating subscription papers among the miners to give their leader a $10,000 house.”1 was on “the platform with Mitcft^,” she relates with indignat’on, “and the poor starving •miners were being asked to^giye money so that Mitchell's wife might haye a fine house to live in.I grabbed the paper ^nd I said to the meeting* What do you boys mean by this? Have your wives feota fine house to live in? Why, ybu can’t-* call a shingle on your shacks your^ own. John Mitchell knew the salary of the president’s job when' lie took the office. If he didn’t want the job he didn’t need to take it. What’s getting into you boys, buying fine houses for other men’s wives. Get a decent house for your own wives first, by God, beford you begin worrying about Mrs. John Mitchell’s lodgings. And I took the papers,’’ she concluded, “and tore them up before his eyes!’’ -Asked about the Communists, Mother Jones •spoke with respect and affection for William Z. “'Paster with whom she worked in the A.P. of L. campaign of 19l£ to organize the steel workers. “The Communists’ ideas are logical,” she says, “but a little advanced for our people. I joined the Communists to find out about them. I always joined any workers organization I could .to see for myself whether it was a good thing for, labor.” MpthejL„JQ_ne^Jh5atedly_denies_thaLshe_ever-re^ _ceived money in her old age from the miners union through Johrr L. Lewis, nbr is she' getting any . now. . “I sent-® burning hot message about Lewis ttr tire rmnois miners jusT a few weeks ago,” she says, “I told them to fight hard and I asked them to let no traitor ofr coward lower me into my grave beside the heroes of the Virden massacre when I die.“What the labor movement needs, is militant front rank leaders, not office chair warmers. Out against the police and militia and to hell with tho injunctions!” . /
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New Llano Colonist
New Llano, Louisiana, US
Sat, Jan 04, 1930
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