Mother Jones
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Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an American labor organizer, schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
Jones in 1902
The Mother Jones Memorial near her birthplace
Pennsylvania state historical marker for Mother Jones in Coaldale, Schuylkill County
Jones at New York City Hall in 1915, where she was attending the hearings of the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations
The Industrial Workers of the World, whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1905. Its ideology combines general unionis
Mother Jones
…union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the trade union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she…
Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917
A Wobbly membership card, or "red card"
1914 IWW demonstration in New York City
Workers being forcibly marched away from Bisbee into the desert