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After surviving the Ludlow Massacre, Mother Jones has been summoned to a union meeting hall in Denver Colorado. Traveling by train she arrives and finds herself ambushed by the president of her own union, the United Mine Workers of America. John D. Rockefeller Jr., the owner of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, is also anxious to stop the growing violence at his mines. In this scene Mother Jones is trying to persuade him to let the United Mine Workers have a respected voice in his company.
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MOTHER JONES
How do you rationalize allowing your company to operate outside of Colorado state law?
ROCKEFELLER
I don’t know that to be a fact.
MOTHER JONES
Governor Ammons, “our little cowboy Governor,” spoke about the deliberate evasion of Colorado laws at this very hearing. What does it cost you to get him to look the other way…?
DARROW
Objection!
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