Marry Harris Jones
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Mary Harris Jones
Mother Jones
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Marry Jones lost her husband and four children from the yellow fever when she was 30 years old.
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Mary was a dressmaker but she lost most of her stuff in the Chicago Fire of 1871.
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She got involved in the American labor movement. She joined the knights of labor. "She fights her battles with a mothers love." -a reporter
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Her first strike was in the 1870s. The Baltimore and Ohio employees went on strike and they wanted Mary Jones's help.
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Jones got involved with trying to get better conditions for RailRoad workers in 1877.
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Also in 1880 she went on strike trying to get workers an eight-hour work day.
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Mary was arrested when she was 82 years old during a violent strike in West Virginia.
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She had to spend 6 days in jail in August 1913 while supporting a copper miners' strike.
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Mary Harris Jones lived to the age of 100 years old she died in 1935.
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