Goodbye, boys; I’m under arrest. I may have to go to jail. I may not see you for a long time. Keep up the fight! Don’t surrender! Pay no attention to the injunction machine at Parkersburg. The Federal judge is a scab anyhow. While you starve he plays golf. While you serve humanity, he serves injunctions for the money powers.
ATTRIBUTION:
Mother Jones (1830–1930), U.S. labor organizer. The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ch. 7 (1925).
Addressing a June 1902 meeting of miners in Clarksburg, West Virginia, after just having been placed under arrest by a United States Marshal. An injunction had been obtained to prevent her from speaking.
