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from a speech by Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones in 1912:
"It is freedom or death, and your children will be free. We are not going to leave a slave class to the coming generation, and I want to say to you that the next generation will not charge us for what we have done, they will charge and condemn us for what we have left undone. (Cries of: “That is right. ”)"

"A half dozen nurses, the wives of union miners, appeared in camp on Tuesday, outfitted in white uniforms and caps, their local union numbers on their caps in place of red crosses. They would tend the wounded, and had brought bandages, iodine and thermometers."