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Mary Harris Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930) was a prominent American labor and community organizer. Mother Jones was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She strongly identified with working people who had no protection against low wages, long hours, and dangerous working conditions.
Sep 28, 2020 · Labor activist Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, is remembered for her efforts to push for worker’s rights well into the later years of her 93-year life. But Jones’s matronly persona a…
Mary Harris Jones was born in Cork, Ireland, c. 1830. Some historians believe she was actually born in 1837, even though her autobiography states otherwise. Her parents, like the majority of Roman Catholic families in Ireland at the time, struggled financially and lived on a diet of potatoes they farmed themselves.
MARY HARRIS ‘MOTHER’ JONES, “SPEECH AT A PUBLIC MEETING ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA” (15 AUGUST 1912) [1] This, my friends, marks, in my estimation, the most remarkable move ever made in the State of West Virginia. It is a day that will mark history in the long ages to come. […]
Mary Harris Jones was born approximately August 1, 1837 in Cork, Ireland to Helen Cotter and Richard Harris. She had two brothers and two sisters. Jones later claimed a birthdate of May 1, 1830. Biographers suggest that she chose 1830 to add to the image of white-haired “Mother” Jones, and May first to connect herself to the Haymarket ...
Mary Harris Jones, còn được gọi là " Mother Jones " (Mẹ Jones), vào năm 1905 là đồng sáng lập Industrial Workers of the World (Công nhân công nghiệp của thế giới) và sau này cả Liên minh Công nhân Mỏ (United Mine Workers) và Đảng Xã hội chủ nghĩa Mỹ (Socialist Party of America). Tạp chí ...
On July 7, 1903, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones began the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55-hour work week. During this march, Jones delivered her famed “The Wail of the Children ...
