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Show m October 2002 Historical Guide 7 Mother Jones supports striking Castle Gate miners in 1904 about to lead a force of strikers who planned to march on Castle Gate and retake the company housing in the When American workers struggled to improve labor conditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mary Harris Jones was likely standing on the front lines. In April 1904, Mother Jones came to the Carbon-Emer- y town. The Deseret News claimed that "Castle Gate Italians, until goaded by this Amazon, had kept themselves area to assist the within the law and very few Castle Gate miners' strike Utah Fuel Company. The men walked out in 1903, seeking better wages and hours and recognition of the were made .... (Jones) has become a ranting vixen seeking to lead a mob of destructionists into the execution of some diaarrests United Mine Workers union. Jones came to Utah at the request of the UMW after she was ordered out of the striking mining districts in Colorado by the governor. Fearless and compassionate, Jones impressed working men and women with a forthright manner and lack of pretension. Mother Jones, labeled by the press a woman of about 60 years of age" (actually 74), met with labor organizer William Price, who was reportedly confined with smallpox. Price's doctor quarantined Jones and she was forbidden to address strikers at an open-ai- r meeting in "well-preserve- bolical plot ...." The mass arrests of about 120 miners ultimately broke the strike. Mother Jones Operators frequently responded to mining strikes by positioning armed guards across company property. agement. d quarantine shack was burned down, forcing her to seek shelter at a lodging house. The workers rights activist later claimed that a company detective tried to rob her at gunpoint, mistakenly believing that she was the Helper. The guardian of the strike fund. Jones broke quarantine several times, once to ad left Carbon County for Salt Lake City near the end of April 1904 and continued west to San Francisco, Calif., where more strikers awaited her encour- dress evicted miners at a tent colony. Local papers reported that the activist was Viewed as the Joan of Arc by many American workers, Mother Jones lived to age 100. ss SB SO MUCI3 TALK ABOUT DEALS!! MRT FITNESS CENTER 57 NORTH CARBON TRICE, UTAH Rhone (455) A I LNL'E 1 657-W7- 5 Starting October 1, we'll resume our regular hours -Monday thru Friday 5 a.m. - 9 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Closed Sunday now have aerobic, kick boxing, & toning classes - well also be adding new classes times. We S mm s' mn mm Only at Mad Man Basso's. Ask for the Italian "fMIfiV" Discount. 396 So. Carbon Ave. 637-420- 0 |