These Podcasts cover a variety of subjects within the history of labor such as Mother Jones and the gun battle in Virden Illinois. We work with labor museums such as the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan W. Virginia, and the Friends of Mother Jones museum in Mt. Olive, IL. In addition, we work with Union Miner's Cemetery which is also located in Mt. Olive, IL. Plus, we create videos which can be found on YouTube under Jase Media Service or at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu ...
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This is part of a series featuring Roberts telling the story of mine work.Door James Goltz
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President Roberts speaks on different aspects of mineworker history in a series of interviews. In this podcast, a section of this interview tells of the tragic events in Ludlow Colorado. He also has some advice for union members.Door James Goltz
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Joann Condolone speaks on International Mother Jones Day
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On April 30, 2023, the Union Miners' Cemetery, Friends of Mother Jones Museum, and the city of Mt. Olive, IL, will present a reenactment of the funeral of Mother Jones in December of 1930 when 40,000 kindred Spirits came to pay their respects. In a radio interview, Joann speaks about it.Door James Goltz
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This Podcast is part of a series of Public Service Announcements about unionism and their value. The voice of Mother Jones is Illinois resident, Loretta Rymer Williams.Door James Goltz
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As part of a seires of grassroots Public Service Announcement, Mother Jones warns minimum wage workers they must join unions before the corporate robber barons makes impossible.Door James Goltz
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Mother Jones visited the Edwardsville Illinois tornado damaged Amazon Hub warehouse where 6 workers died to raise hell about the lack of support that the workers received after the disaster. She called the unsafe warehouses mausoleums. She said what the workers need for Christmas was not an Amazon gift card but a union. Mother Jones knows suffering…
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Mother Jones says a wildfire is coming!
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Loretta Rymer Williams channels Mother Jones as she provides great wisdom while comparing the slavery of old to the slavery of modern times. She documents periods in our history where the bosses could get away with murder and how we are facing it again in modern times. Precious blood of our martyrs cannot be allowed to be shed in vain.…
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This Podcast takes place in Union Miners' Cemetery in Mt. Olive Illinois, it is the only union owned cemetery in the USA. General Alexander Bradley speaks at annual celebrations of the UMWA members who were killed in a gun battle in Virden Illinois with mine guards working for the Chicago-Virden coal company while also paying homage to the legendar…
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David Hatfield tells of his famous relative, Sid Hatfield
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David Hatfield, of the well known Hatfield and McCoy feud, recounts his family history, his relationship to folk hero Sid, the gun battle that led to his trial and his eventual murder on the courthouse steps of the courthouse in Logan county West Virginia where nobody was charged for his and deputy Ed Chambers assassination. Their murder helped spa…
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Mother Jones speaks on her birth, her life, and her final resting place
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Loretta Rymer Williams, the only Mother Jones re-enactor to have performed at the location of MJ birth and at her final resting place, uses Irish supplied story boards to recount the hardship in Ireland that drove her brother and father to immigrate to Canada. She tells of her travel to America and Canada and eventually her marriage, the sad ending…
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Mother Jones and the 1898 gun battle in Virden Illinois
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Book store owner and historian, John Alexander, recounts the circumstances leading up to the gun battle on October 12, 1898, between mine guards for the Chicago-Virden Coal Company and UMWA members who were locked out of their jobs. His perspective is of one who has spent their life in Virden and studied what actually happened there.…
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