You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Jack London

Saturday May 9, 1903
From The Comrade: "How I Became a Socialist"
In the March issue of The Comrade, Jack London was asked to write of his journey to Socialism:

It is quite fair to say that I became a Socialist in a fashion somewhat similar to the way in which the Teutonic pagans became Christians — it was hammered into me. Not only was I not looking for Socialism at the time of my conversion, but I was fighting it. I was very young and callow, did not know much of anything, and though I had never even heard of a school called "Individualism," I sang the paean of the strong with all my heart.

This was because I was strong myself. By strong I mean that I had good health and hard muscles...this optimism was because I was healthy and strong, bothered with neither aches nor weaknesses, never turned down by the boss because I did not look fit, able always to get a job at shoveling coal, sailorizing, or manual labor of some sort...

You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Sunday April 19, 1903
From Montgomery, West Virginia - Letter* from Mother Jones to Henry Demarest Lloyd

My dear Mr. Lloyed
...The thank you Judge [J.J. Jackson] is not correct. I did not thank him. he told me not to violate his Injunction. I told him I would not violate the Law. I was going out to continue the work for which I was arrested. If that violated his Injunction I feared it would be violated. he Said I ought to join some Charity Organization. I told him If I had my way I would tear down every Charity Institution in the country to day build on their ruins the Temple of Justice. My plea was for Justice not Charity...
fraternally
Mother Jones

*As written without correction, except punctuation, as needed for clarity.

SOURCE
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed by Edward M Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1985

Saturday April 19, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey - The Funeral of Modestino Valentino

A mass funeral was held today in Paterson for Modestino Valentino. Mr. Valentino was killed by a stray bullet on Thursday when police and the private detectives, hired by the mill owners, fired into a group of unarmed strikers who were hooting at the scab-herders. Twenty thousand strikers attended the funeral. They passed silently by his casket, each one dropping a red carnation.

You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Friday March 28, 1903
U.S. Post Office Continues Campaign against the Appeal to Reason
As the Socialist newspaper, the Appeal to Reason prepares its one million copies of the Populist edition, the Post office has issued a directive that the Appeal can mail out no more extra copies than the number of its subscribers. The circulation of the Appeal has been increasing dramatically, along with a rise in the influence of the Socialist Party of America. The Populist edition is designed to attract ex-People's party supporters to socialism.