On This Day - March 26 : In a show of international solidarity, Pancho Villa demands that Pres. Wilson use his power to get "Rockefeller forces" to release Mother Jones from prison. Jones had been organizing among Mexican workers for over 10 years. She went to Chihuahua, the base of Villa's operations in the Mexican revolution in late December 1913 to consult with Villa: It's "the same fight those stalwart fellows are leading there (Mexico) that's being carried on in Calumet (Michigan), in Colorado, in every place where private greed has extirpated human right!" she declared. Jones had been held in prison since January 12 without charge because of her activism on behalf of Colorado coalfield strikers. President Wilson sent a telegram demanding that Villa release Luis Terrazas, son of a wealthy Mexican landowner whose land Villa's army had confiscated. Villa sent a telegram to Wilson "I shall comply with your request, provided you and your administration will show the same regard for humanity toward one of your own citizens, a woman past eighty years, who is being illegally deprived of her liberty, by General Chase, commander in chief of the Colorado division of the Rockefeller forces. I refer to Mother Jones, who is now held incommunicado in Trinidad, Colo. I may take the liberty to remind you that about two years ago Mother Jones made an organizing trip for the Western Federation of Miners through Mexico, under the full protection of President Madero, whom she visited at Mexico City. Will you do as much for Mother Jones?" Jones treasured this telegram and learning of it steeled her determination. https://www.facebook.com/MotherJonesLives <https://www.facebook.com/MotherJonesLives?__cft__[0]=AZVSvFm9PPGgG-Xudt4VFza5sB9nWSFvNcyiTezq1bfRKN_Ykk09gCVmUuZjsel7FObyIvTQGTI3DN921bjAJIxcZAqx6dWQYQYMT-HCi4sMUkBaHIkfioWXlhKypXD5Djc&__tn__=-]K-R>
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