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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMARY HARRIS 'MOTHER' JONES, Irish born US Labor Leader on PRISONS, SHOES & SENATORS
~"I ASKED A MAN IN PRISON ONCE HOW HE HAPPENED TO BE THERE AND HE SAID HE HAD STOLEN A PAIR OF SHOES. I TOLD HIM IF HE HAD STOLEN A RAILROAD HE WOULD BE A UNITED STATES SENATOR"~
-Mother Jones
Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones (1837-1930), Industrial Era and Gilded Age 'Angel of the Miners' and 'The Walking Wrath of God', Sinclair Lewis.
*SEE BIO: http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-People-in-Labor-History/Mother-Jones-1837-1930
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)Not many like that anymore- Additional & similar stuff on her I posted:
-Link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026519558
(I really need to learn how to excerpt and save specific internal posts somehow, sooner than later).
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)Sinclair Lewis said. She d. 1930 in Silver Spring, MD in the Wash., DC area. What a remarkable life and tremendous force for workers rights and children in this country. I just added a link for a good AFL-CIO bio of her to the OP.
SEE BIO: http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-People-in-Labor-History/Mother-Jones-1837-1930