![]() ![]() She attended the founding convention of Social Democracy of America, later known as the Cooperative Brotherhood, in 1897 and in the same year organised support and publicity for striking bituminous coal miners in West Virginia, including a children's march and parades of farmers delivering food to the miners' camp. In the 1890s she became known as ‘Mother’ Jones and began a long association with socialist causes and the United Mine Workers of America. Her seamstress shop was destroyed by the great Chicago fire of 1871. After the death of her husband and their four children in a yellow-fever epidemic in 1867, Jones relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where she became involved with an early industrial union, the Knights of Labor. In 1861 she married George Jones, an iron-moulder and labour union member in Memphis, Tennessee. ![]() ![]() In the US she taught in a convent school in Michigan and worked as a seamstress. She lived in the USA and Canada, where she attended and later taught in a Roman catholic normal school in Toronto. She emigrated to North America as a young girl with her father, Richard Harris, a railway labourer, possibly during the famine. Many details of her life come from The autobiography of Mother Jones (1925 1974). Jones, Mary Harris (‘Mother Jones’) (1837?–1930), union organiser, was (according to baptismal records) born in July 1837 in Cork city however, the year is disputed. ![]()
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