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of the front pews where I was accessible to the counsel for the commission, because I had had some materials that I furnished him with.

It was known that on one particular day they weren't going to hear anything about New York industry. They were going to hear testimony for two days about the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company an about the activities of that company, and the activities of the New York financiers who were supposed to have backed that, including bankers as well as Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. I went that day and took my usual seat. There was such a crowd that I stood up and gave someone my seat. Since I was known to the counsel and the guards there I was allowed to stand close to the witness stand.

They called somebody from the miners union who made a statement. I think he was their lawyer. He made a very dignified, correct and truthful statement, stating the facts. It had all been in the papers. He didn't say anything new. Then the lawyer said, “But I would like to give some of my time so that the commission may hear from a lady who is in this room at the present time and who knows more about this treatment of the mine workers than almost anyone else because she saw it all. I would like, sir, (speaking to the chairman) for you to put Mother Jones on the stand.”

Of course, everybody was agog. Mother Jones's name had been in the papers as this violent woman. So up comes