Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-05-07 | Page 43 | Labor is Striking While the Iron is Hot--Mother Jones

Labor Is Striking While the Iron is isa r Mother Hot Jones a CHICAGO May 6 Mother G.-Mother Mother Mary Jones heroine c pf of f many strikes tonight declared that labor is striking while the iron is hot Mother Jones who Is in Chicago aiding aiding aiding aid aid- ing strikers at the International Harvester company's plant declared that lab labor r. r through the country had bad seized an opportune opportune time to make make its demands for tor higher wages and better living conditions Of Of course said Mother Jones they are not striking for tor anything they do donot donot donot not deserve It is not organized labor that is striking The interests know enough to arbitrate with them If It the steel workers at Youngstown were or organized organized organized or- or all the bloodshed d and insane acts there would have been eliminated The laboring forces have pave been subI subjected sub sub- I for years not knowing where their next piece of ot bread d was coming from They have waited for the op opportune opportune op- op time to strike for what is theirs The workingman does pot not want or oras oras oras as a class do does s not believe in preparedness prepared prepared- ness I believe that if the money Interests in interests In- In want war they should go out and shed their own blood If It Roosevelt is nominated watch me I r will speak my little piece against him I am for Wilson He has done doneall doneall doneall all he could Mother Jones denounced the conditions conditions conditions condi condi- of the working girls in the packing packing packing pack pack- ing houses She attributed the fact that these found their amusement amusement amuse amuse- I ment in shady cabar cabarets ts to these condi condi- She left here tonight for lor Denver She will address the striking in Coffeyville Kan Jan next Saturday