The Guardian: Alleged victim tells Alan Jones’s barrister he was ‘groomed for 10 years’ and to ‘get real’ during combative cross-examination
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Mary Harris Jones
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. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the trade union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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culture · American labor organizer (1837–1930) · teacher · trade unionist · human rights defender · writer · union organizer · community organizer · also Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, Mary Harris, Jones
Born 1 May 1830 · Died 30 November 1930 · Q107082
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2026· 3 entries
Legacy obituary: Mary Harris Obituary (2026) - Leelanau County, MI - Reynolds Jonkhoff Funeral Home & Cremation Services
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The Labor Tribune: Three days of Mother Jones celebrations planned for Labor Day weekend
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2019· 1 entry
Mother Jones was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame
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2016· 1 entry
And was followed by performances in Boston
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2012· 2 entries
To mark the 175th anniversary of her birth
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In the Shandon area of the city, close to her birthplace, with numerous guest speakers
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2011· 1 entry
And Lee took the show on tour with the United Mine Workers across Colorado as well as tours in Ireland, Bangladesh, and Cambodia
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2010· 1 entry
A proposal from Councillor Ted Tynan for a plaque to be erected in Mary Harris Jones's native Cork City was passed by the Cork City Council
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Labor Hall of Honor (1992).
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1984).
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Recognizes the town's important residential architecture from early plantation to Victorian Styles
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Was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1936· 1 entry
Also known as Miners' Day, an estimated 50,000 people arrived at Mother Jones's grave to see the new gravestone and memorial
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1932· 2 entries
Before being sold to a Baptist church in 1956
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About 15,000 Illinois mine workers gathered in Mount Olive to protest against the United Mine Workers, which soon became the Progressive Mine Workers of America
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1930· 8 entries
Died 1930-11-30.
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At the Burgess farm, then in Silver Spring, Maryland, now part of Adelphi
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And was filmed making a statement for a newsreel
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“The old condition is passing away. The new dawn of another civilized nation is breaking into the lives of the human race.”
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Mother Jones said the following regarding her legacy: "I am considered a Bolshevik, and a Red and an I
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At the age of one hundred, she was beloved by the working classes and admired by others for her candor and courage
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“I am considered a Bolshevik, and a Red and an I.W.W., and a radical, and I admit to being all they”
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“If you ever saw a policeman with a club in his hand, I want to ask you, did you ever see that policeman club a millionaire? But it is "Get out of here, damn you, go on to jail, damn you," if it is a working man.”
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1923· 1 entry
Began writing an account of her life and experiences in the labor movement
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1917· 1 entry
Mother Jones played a role in the Bloomington Streetcar Strike
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1903· 3 entries
“The American people were born in strikes, and now in the closing days of the nineteenth century, even the children must strike for justice.”
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To protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York
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Jones organized children who were working in mills and mines to participate in her famous "March of the Mill Children", a 125-mile trek from Kensington, Philadelphia, to the summer house (and Summer White House) of Presi
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1902· 2 entries
Was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing miners and their families against the mine owners
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At her trial for ignoring an injunction banning meetings by striking miners
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1901· 1 entry
Workers in Pennsylvania's silk mills went on strike
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1871· 1 entry
Four years after the death of her family, Jones lost her home, shop, and possessions in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871
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1867· 2 entries
And her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers of America union
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Jones lost her husband and their four children, three girls and a boy all under the age of five, during a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis
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1830· 1 entry
Born 1830-05-01.
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