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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy birthday, Mother Jones (August 1, 1837 - Nov. 30, 1930)
http://zinnedproject.org/materials/mother-jones-labor-organizer/"Following these twin shocks, Jones spent the second half of her life involved in the labor movement. From the 1890s though the 1920s she worked tirelessly as a political hell-raiser, advancing social and political causes such as the abolition of child labor, and organizing the United Mine Workers. In 1905 she helped found the International Workers of the World (IWW).
Coal miners and their families called her the miners angel and, after she began referring to the miners as her boys, she took on the nickname Mother Jones. A charismatic speaker, she was adept at staging public events to get publicity for striking workers, and her physical courage was legendary. Opponents called her the most dangerous woman in America, but when she was denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate as the grandmother of all agitators, she said she hoped to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators."
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Happy birthday, Mother Jones (August 1, 1837 - Nov. 30, 1930) (Original Post)
hfojvt
Aug 2013
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. A great reminder, and thanks for pointing out Zinn's project website.
Very cool.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)2. I know it is late, but I just saw it on FB
and then I thought, hey, I never saw this on DU.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)3. dang I thought this icon of the left
would be more popular here
then again, it is labor, after all