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The Autobiography of Mother Jones

by Mary Harris JONES (1837 - 1930)

The Haymarket Tragedy

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party of America. (Summary by Denny)

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Listen next episodes of The Autobiography of Mother Jones:
A Human Judge , A Strike in Virginia , Child Labor , Governor Hunt, Human and Just , Guards and Gunmen , How the Women Mopped Up Coaldale , How the Women Sang Themselves Out of Jail , In a West Virginia Prison Camp , In Rockefeller's Prisons , March of the Mill Children , Medieval West Virginia , Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone , Murder in West Virginia , Progress in Spite of Leaders , Roosevelt Sent for John Mitchell , Struggle and Lose: Struggle and Win , The Cripple Creek Strike , The Mexican Revolution , The Steel Strike of 1919 , Those Mules Won't Scab Today , Victory at Arnot, Pennsylvania , Victory in West Virginia , War in West Virginia , Wayland's Appeal to Reason , You Don't Need a Vote to Raise Hell