![]() ![]() She never shied away from a strike, no matter how violent, and spent many nights in jail after ignoring orders to stay away from sites of conflict. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jones was on trial for disobeying an injunction that banned all demonstrations near the mines she’d been arrested mid-speech and insisted on finishing it before she was taken into custody, ending with a cry to “Keep up this fight! Don’t surrender!”Īctive from the 1890s through the 1920s, Mother Jones worked tirelessly to persuade coal miners, brewery bottle washers, textile mill hands, and other laborers to fight for higher wages and better working conditions. What made her so dangerous, according to the prosecuting attorney who described her as such, was her charisma-her ability to convince tens of thousands of coal workers to unionize, and, if necessary, put down their tools and go on strike until they were given shorter work days and higher wages. Labor organizer and anti-capitalist firebrand Mary Harris Jones-known as “Mother” Jones-was a grandmotherly woman who dressed in black with a froth of lace at her throat and a jaunty bonnet on her head. In 1902, the “most dangerous woman in America” was a five-foot-tall, silver-haired woman in her 60s. ![]()
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