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

Saturday May 23, 1903
Chicago, Illinois - 40,000 Workers Threaten to Strike
The city of Chicago is bracing itself for strikes and lockouts which may soon involve 40,000 workers. 12,00 restaurant and hotel employees, women and well as men, have issued demands and stand ready to strike. 8,000 barbers may be on strike next week, Stockyard men numbering 10,000, including teamsters and laborers, as well as the skilled tradesmen, have issued demands and threatened to strike if those demands are not met. Railroad men and freight handlers may soon shut down the flow of goods to and from the city.

Employers are discussing the possibility of attacking the unions through the courts.

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

Thursday May 21, 1903
Denver, Colorado - The WFM's deadline to Charles MacNeill has come and gone.
More than a month ago, Charles H. Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners, agreed to call off the strike of the smeltermen at the Standard Mill. The sympathy strike by the metal miners was also called off. It was this sympathy strike by the miners which forced MacNeill back to the bargaining table, and forced him to agree to rehire the smeltermen who had been fired for union organizing. Moyer then agreed to give MacNeill until May 18 to rehire the fired smeltermen. That date has come and gone, and the union men have not been rehired. The WFM has sent a protest to MacNeill, and is awaiting his reply.

Tuesday May 19, 1903
Chicago, Illinois - Kohlsaat Closes All Bake Shops Connected to Lunchrooms
Kohlsaat has closed all company bakeries connected with its lunchrooms. According to The New York Times:

The Bakers had voted to walk out in sympathy with the colored waiters and to forestall this movement the company decided to lock out its employees.

The lock-out affects all employees from the office men, to the drivers, and even the laundry girls and scrubwomen. The tie-up appears to be complete, and this could become a long drawn-out fight.

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

Sunday May 17, 1903
Pennsylvania - Mother Jones and Her Armies of "Wild Women."
Mother often receives the call for help from strikers in Pennsylvania, "For God's sake, come over to my area." And she answers the call whenever she can. No area is too dangerous for Mother Jones. In Roaring Branch, Hazleton, Wilkes-Barre, Mount Pleasant, Arnot, Shamokin, Coaldale, Scranton, and other towns and hamlets, Mother Jones has been busy the past few years aiding the miners in their struggles to win decent pay and better working conditions. She has led armies of women over the hills to drive out scabs. John Mitchell as President of the UMWA has received word on more than one occasion about "Mother Jones raising hell up in the mountains with a bunch of wild women." Even the brutal company gunmen have been known to panic when approached by Mother Jones and her armies of "wild women."

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

Friday May 15, 1903
Pennsylvania - The Breaker Boys
According to the laws of Pennsylvania, no child under the age of 12 is to be employed outside the mine. However, the miners living in poverty as they do, must often make the choice between perjury and hunger. Young boys can be found hunched over the chutes picking the impurities from the coal. They sit in this hunched position for long hours breathing the coal dust into their young lungs. They receive from 27 to 39 cents for a 10-hour day. Should a young boy fall into the chute, he will most certainly be crushed to death.