Mary Harris "Mother" Jones... Just Before Her Death In 1930...

[WillyT]

"America was not built on dollars but on the blood of men who gave their lives for your benefit. Power lies in the hands of labor to retain American liberty, but labor has not yet learned how to use that power. A wonderful power is in the hands of women, too, but they don't know how to use it. Capitalists sidetrack women into clubs and make ladies of them. Nobody wants a lady, they want women."

And upon her death...

Thousands more of Mother Jones's admirers heard the service over WCFL, the radio station of the Chicago Federation of Labor. "My Dear friends," Maguire declared,

...today in gorgeous mahogany furnished and carefully guarded offices in distant capitals wealthy mine owners and capitalists are breathing sighs of relief. Today upon the plains of Illinois, the hillsides and valleys of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, in California, Colorado and British Colombia, strong men and toil worn women are weeping tears of bitter grief. The reasons... are the same. Mother Jones is dead.

From the book, 'Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman In America'



Newsreel that may be the only recording of her voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84vSVvaGsE4



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[no_hypocrisy]

1. "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the Living."

Mother Jones

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. Wow. That was great

And she is right.

"Nobody wants a lady, they want women."

[socialist_n_TN]

3. She was Trotsky's favorite of all American socialists.......

and I don't think that she was even a avowed socialist. He called her a true hero of the working class. That's enough for me. :)

[felix_numinous]

4. K&R

[iwishiwas]

5. She "still awaits the day that the people will "replace this moneyed civilization,"

I made a point of stopping to visit her gravesite a few years back on a trip to LA. It was sobering but some one had laid fresh flowers just recently. This was the end of April.

This passage reminds me Walker calling out the State Troopers to arrest the "Dem 14" in Wisconsin.
But even the Walker Repug poodle Fitzgerald admitted no police officer would arrest them (when it was over he admitted that).



.........The use of hired mercenaries and public police forces to brutalize and suppress workers rights was a common condition of the period. While we are taught that the U.S. has guaranteed basic freedoms, the history of this period reveals an oft-buried history of the fragile status of freedom for labor in this country.

The documentary includes rare photos as well as the only existing live footage of her at age "100" proclaiming she is still a radical, still awaits the day that the people will "replace this moneyed civilization," and "longs for the day when labor will have the destination of the nation in her own hands." ...........

http://www.motherjonesmuseum.org/DVD_page.htm

[WillyT]

6. Thank You For The Link !!!

:yourock:

:hi:

[iwishiwas]

7. Glad you like it.

[Cleita]

8. We need to rename our party the Democratic Farm and Labor Party.

There should be no doubt as to whom the party stands for then.

[BR_Parkway]

10. As long as we can make those in DC who claim to be members act like

that's who they stand for - they do occassionally, but big money interests them way too much.

[originalpckelly]

9. My great grandfather worked with her at Ludlow in Colorado

His name was Edward L. Doyle and he was the secretary of the Mine Workers Union.

It's weird to hear about that shit.

Of course, what does that matter? I didn't even meet my great grandfather.