Autobiography of Mother Jones
Transcriber’s Note: Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
Mother Jones’ Latest Photograph
EDITED BY MARY FIELD PARTON
INTRODUCTION BY CLARENCE DARROW
CHICAGO CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY 1925
Copyright, 1925, by CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY Printed in the United States of America
Mother Jones is one of the most forceful and picturesque figures of the American labor movement. She is a born crusader. In an earlier period of the world she would have joined with Peter the Hermit in leading the crusaders against the Saracens. At a later period, she would have joined John Brown in his mad, heroic effort to liberate the slaves. Like Brown, she has a singleness of purpose, a personal fearlessness and a contempt for established wrongs. Like him, the purpose was the moving force, and the means of accomplishing the end did not matter.
Mother Jones
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INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I Early Years
CHAPTER II The Haymarket Tragedy
CHAPTER III A Strike in Virginia
CHAPTER IV Wayland’s Appeal to Reason
CHAPTER V Victory at Arnot
CHAPTER VI War in West Virginia
CHAPTER VII A Human Judge
CHAPTER VIII Roosevelt Sent for John Mitchell
CHAPTER IX Murder in West Virginia
CHAPTER X The March of the Mill Children
CHAPTER XI Those Mules Won’t Scab Today
CHAPTER XII How the Women Mopped Up Coaldale
CHAPTER XIII The Cripple Creek Strike
CHAPTER XIV Child Labor
CHAPTER XV Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
CHAPTER XVI The Mexican Revolution
CHAPTER XVII How the Women Sang Themselves Out of Jail
CHAPTER XVIII Victory in West Virginia
CHAPTER XIX Guards and Gunmen
CHAPTER XX Governor Hunt
CHAPTER XXI In Rockefeller’s Prisons
CHAPTER XXII “You Don’t Need a Vote to Raise Hell”
CHAPTER XXIII A West Virginia Prison Camp
CHAPTER XXIV The Steel Strike of 1919
CHAPTER XXV Struggle and Lose: Struggle and Win
CHAPTER XXVI Medieval West Virginia
CHAPTER XXVII Progress in Spite of Leaders
