Mother Jones was 74 years old and she organized United Mineworkers of America when people tried to kick her out of Colorado during a miners strike in 1904. Mary Jones was an Irish-American labor activist she had no fears in standing up to almost anyone including governors and even thugs. She was thrown into jails and was wrote in newspapers for giving a cause of coal miners and other workers like child labors to start strikes for …
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…against child labor. Mother Jones died in 1931 at the age of 100 after fighting for workers for more than half a century. In an era when working in the mines or organizing a union could cost you your life, she'd tell union supporters: "Pray for the dead, but fight like Hell for the living." My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** f