Mary Jones (fam. Mother Jones) Life called most dangerous woman in America at whose arrival 20,000 contented men lay down their tools and walked out and sentenced to 20 years for conspiracy to commit murder by a West Virginia judge, but released after Congressional investigation at which she said, whe[re]ver a fight is on against wrong, I am always there; led march of Philadephia mill-workers to the home of President Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, Long Island; presented a deformed 14-yr old boy to an Economics class in Harvard as lesson in Economics; she called Roosevelts presidency a presidency of the capitalist not the poor and contested his position in relation to labour; d. 30 Nov., Silver Spring, Maryland; m. George E. Jones, d. 1867 [ top ] |