![]() This trip was to thank her for all her campaigning for the Mexican Revolution and for the release of Mexican prisoners in the United States, one of her many campaigns. ![]() In early 1921, she travelled to Mexico City to the Third Congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labour at the invitation of the Mexican government. ![]() Amidst these attacks and disunity also among the unions, the strike was lost. However, following active hounding of union leaders, a new well organised “Red Scare” campaign erupted, leading to crackdowns on union activists, especially those of the socialist or communist belief (not least Mother Jones who had declared herself in a defiant speech to be a Bolshevik, which had caused the outburst from the New York Times). Later in October, following a series of speeches, the New York Times in an article accused her of urging strikers to use violence.Įlliott Gorn states that militancy post World War 1 resulted in one-fifth of all workers going on strike in the year 1919. ![]() Mother Jones did her best to support the steel strike in Pennsylvania, where she spoke before large crowds and was arrested several times for speaking without permits, even on one occasion in the middle of a speech at Homestead in August 1919. ![]()
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