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Article: Keeping Up With Mother Jones
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- Irish Voice
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- March 14, 1995
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Colin Lacey
Irish Voice
03-14-1995
Keeping Up With Mother Jones.
"I COULD never die, because when I get to heaven, I'm gonna tell that carpenter fell about the mine operators in West Virginia, and He'll send me back down to organize the workers."
When Cork-born labor organizer Mary Harris Jones -- known for most of her hundred years simply as `Mother' Jones -- did actually pass away in 1930, there was probably no urgent need for her to be sent back down to the coal fields, steelyards, copper mines, and railway yards of the United States; helped in no small part by her sixty years of furious effort and dedication, the organized labor movement had already established itself as a key fixture on ...