Mother Jones
Mother Jones was 74 years old and she organized United Mineworkers of America when people tried to kick her out of Colorado during a miners strike in 1904. Mary Jones was an Irish-American labor activist she had no fears in standing up to almost anyone including governors and even thugs. She was thrown into jails and was wrote in newspapers for giving a cause of coal miners and
In an era when working in the mines or organizing a union could cost you your life, she'd tell union supporters: "Pray for the dead, but fight like Hell for the living. to Oyster Bay, New York to petition President Teddy Roosevelt against child labor. other workers like child labors to start strikes for better pay and less hours. Wherever miners had to strike to gain their rights -- at the Lattimer strike in Pennsylvania in 1897, at the Ludlow strike in Colorado in 1914 and in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek strikes in West Virginia in 1920 -- Mother Jones was there, giving inspiration and support. In 1903 she led the "March of the Mill Children" from Kensington, Penn. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. Mother Jones died in 1931 at the age of 100 after fighting for workers for more than half a century. She also organized miners' families and lobbied aggressively against the child labor that was common in her day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**f. But she was beloved by miners and other working people.
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