Jase Media Service Podcast James Goltz

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.

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. 

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.

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. After leaving Ireland during the great hunger she eventually married Iron Molder union leader, George Jones and they had 4 children. She lost them all in Memphis to the Yellow Fever. She took her belongings to Chicago and opened a small dress making business only to soon lose it to the great Chicago fire. Mother Jones died in 1930 and is buried in Union Miner's Cemetery in Chicago IL. Loretta Rymer Williams who portrays her is the only MJ re-enactor to have performed both in her country of birth, the Shandon district of Cork Ireland and at her final resting place, in Union Miner's Cemetery in Mt. Olive IL. 

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. 

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 legendary Irish firebrand, Mother Jones. Mother Jones requested to be buried there with "Her boys", these poor miners who were killed.