biography
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Jones, Mary Harris
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known as Mother Jones
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1830–1930)
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| biography:
| US labour agitator, born in Co Cork, S Ireland. She migrated to the USA via Canada, lost her family to an epidemic in 1867, and her home to the Chicago fire of 1871, and thereafter devoted herself to the cause of labour. Homeless after 1880, she travelled to areas of labour strife, especially in the coal industry, and was imprisoned in West Virginia on a charge of conspiracy to murder in 1912, at the age of 82. Freed by a new governor, she returned to labour agitation, which she continued almost until her death. |
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