![]() ![]() In 1903, she organized child laborers to take part in a march with banners demanding "We want to go to school and not the mines!" She attempted to get newspaper publicity for the bad conditions experienced by child laborers, and she tried to meet with the president to discuss the plight of child laborers, but the president refused to meet with the marchers. ![]() After 1900, she began to fight against child labor. She assumed the persona of "Mother Jones" by claiming to be older than she was, wearing outdated dresses and calling the male workers that she helped as "her boys". She was known for organizing the wives and children of striking workers in demonstrations on their behalf. After this she joined the Knights of Labor, then became involved mainly with the United Mine Workers, as an organizer and educator. She returned to Chicago, then she lost everything she owned in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. George and their four children died in 1867 during a yellow fever epidemic. ![]() ![]() She moved to Chicago, and later to Memphis, where in 1861 she married George E. She became a teacher in Michigan in 1859. She was born in Ireland, moved to Canada with her family when they fled the Great Famine in the late 1840s, and then when she was 23, she moved to the United States. ![]()
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