Horticultural Hall yesterday was the scene of the most remarkable demonstration of a convention which has been replete with demonstrations. "Mother" Jones, "the angel of the miners," who has been the storm center of every strike into which her "boys" have been precipitated for the last two decades made a blood and thunder speech that moved the delegates to tears and inspired an almost continuous acclamation.

Eight-three years old, this small white-haired woman with a bit of a brogue, threw a power, an eloquence and a stirring appeal into her speech unequaled by any of the men who have addressed the convention.

She came unannounced from the coal fields of Colorado. When Gompers said she was in the rear of the hall, every one turned and as "Mother" came up the center aisle on

the arm of Frank Hayes, vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America, each row of delegates she passed stood upon its feet until the entire convention was standing and as she reached the platform a thunder of applause broke.

She reviewed the history of the Colorado, West Virginia and Michigan strikes and "the burning of the children and women at Ludlow." She said: "I could mediate in five days; the investigation has already taken a committee seven months.

"I would tell Rockefeller that he had insulted every citizen in the United States by his treatment of the President's proposal to settle the Colorado strike. I would give him five days to settle and then the United States flag would fly over the mines and the people would own them.

"I would say to Rockefeller," she screamed, "if you are President of the United States we are ready to make war with you. Come on. If I could send the screams of the burning children to Washington and let the President hear them I wonder if that would make him move.

"Are you building palaces on the quivering heap of their bodies? Don't you hear the voices of the children crying who were shot in the trenches by the 'uniformed murderers' and then the oil of John Rockefeller thrown over them to burn them to a crisp?"

                                                                Demand Aid.

"Mother" Jones demanded aid for the men who were indicted in connection with the strike in Michigan and in Colorado.

"Those men in jail," she said, "are the foremost fighters of labor. We cannot permit the Shaws, of Boston, to put our men behind the bars. We will win in Colorado and when I have cleaned the State up I am going out to organize the steel workers.

"I have heard that women are taking a part in the affairs of the nation. What did they do about this? I tell you there is no brutal act committed by a man, but there is a woman more or less responsible for it. If women would put in more time planting the human spirit in the breasts of the young we should not have so many savages as we have to-day."

The speaker said that when she refused to leave Colorado on the order of General Chase, she was thrown into a cellar and spent twenty-six days and nights fighting rats with a beer bottle that had nothing in it.7

She charged that Rockefeller had an army of gunmen who were shipped from one part of the country to another as the necessity arose.

Mother Jones told of her interview with Villa. "I had a talk with him," she said. "He's a fine boy. I had $65 that some one gave me for a present and I offered it to him.

"Villa," I said to him, "I want you to come over into our country to kill off some of those people who have crucified women and children--you're needed." "I'll come," said Villa, "as soon as I am through with these murderers and crucifiers here."

Philadelphia Press, Nov. 14, 1914.