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Article: `Mother Jones,' by Elliott J. Gorn; Hill & Wang.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- October 10, 2001
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Secretary of Labor William Wilson received a telegram in 1915 that read: "Send at once to investigate clothing strike. It is fierce. Girls getting eight cents an hour as slaves _ Mother."
The secretary knew at once whom the telegram was from, and, no, it wasn't his own mother. It was from a woman American workers and radicals knew only as "Mother Jones."
Depending on which side you were on in the ceaseless labor strife from 1890 to 1920, she was, as a district attorney once tagged her, "the most dangerous woman in America," or labor's Joan of Arc or the miners' angel.
Now remembered only as the name of a leftist magazine, she was once as famous ...