Too deeply wrapped in her thoughts, Doris had not been aware of it. "It's raining." And she thought, How melodramatically appropriate. And can't.ĭoris Whitney stared out the window. What's it doing there?"ĭear God, we're talking about the weather, Doris Whitney thought, when there's so much I want to tell her. Charles and I were going out for dinner, but the weather's too nasty. I just felt like hearing the sound of your voice, darling." She listened to the echo of the distant ringing. She placed it next to the telephone and dialed her daughter's number in Philadelphia. It was shiny black, and terrifyingly cold. She opened the drawer of the bedside table and carefully removed the gun.
Doris Whitney looked around the bedroom for the last time to make certain that the pleasant room, grown dear over the past thirty years, was neat and tidy. Also included are a Mother Jones article from 1901, a tribute by Eugene V Debs, an introduction by Clarence Darrow, helpful annotations to the text, a full bibliography and an index.She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show. IWW historian Fred Thompson's Afterword provides useful background and fills in important gaps in Mother Jones' story. In a new Foreword Meridel LeSueur vividly recalls her 1914 meeting with Mother Jones. This abundantly illustrated new edition includes a host of valuable additions. Mother Jones' lively narrative - every page bristling with her characteristic humor, indignation and uncommon sense - is a masterpiece of American radicalism. Here too is the exciting story of her crusade against child labor, her innovative efforts to organize working women, her experiences in court and in jail, and her daring involvement in the Mexican Revolution. I n steel, railroading, metal mining, textiles, and above all, the coal industry, Mother Jones fought alongside strikers. In this classic work of American nonfiction the greatest labor organizer in US history details her three quarter century fight for labor's liberation, and her unswerving belief in industrial unionism as the key to that struggle.
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