Taking men into the union is just the kindergarten of their education and every force is against their further education. Men who live up those lonely creeks have only the mine owners’ Y.M.C.As, the mine owners’ preachers and teachers, the mine owners’ doctors and newspapers to look to for their ideas. So they don’t get many.
ATTRIBUTION:
Mother Jones (1830–1930), U.S. labor organizer. The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ch. 6 (1925).
On organizing a chapter of the United Mine Workers in Kelly Creek on the Kanawah River, West Virginia.
