Debs and the Socialist Party.ġ909 Mother Jones supports striking shirtwaist workers in Philadelphia and New York.ġ910 Mother Jones joins organizers to aid bottle washers in the Milwaukee breweries.ġ912 Mother Jones supports striking railroad workers and copper miners in Butte, Montana and returns to West Virginia to aid miners in the Paint and Cabin Creek strikes.ġ913 Mother Jones spends 85 days in jail in West Virginia for her organizing in the coal strike. Organizes for Western Federation of Miners in Arizonaġ908 Mother Jones campaigns for Eugene V. Olive, Illinois, and attends the Miners Day memorial service for the miners killed at the battle of Virden, Illinois in 1898.ġ905 Mother Jones travels to Michigan Upper Peninsula to organize copper miners.ġ907 Mother Jones supports Mexicans fighting against the Diaz regime. She travels to the Union Miners Cemetery in Mt. She organizes miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.ġ901 Mary Jones calls herself Mother Jones for the first time in a series of articles written in the International Socialist Review.ġ902 Mother Jones organizes for UMW in West Virginia and is sent to jail.ġ903 Mother Jones leads the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Roosevelt’s home on Long Island. 1837 Mary Harris is born in Cork, Ireland (Mother Jones used as her birthdate, but records reveal the later date)ġ857 She attends teachers college in Canadaġ859 Mary Harris moves to Chicago to become a dressmakerġ860 Mary Harris leaves Chicago, moves to Memphis, Tennesseeġ861 Mary Harris marries George Jones, skilled laborer and activistġ867 In Memphis, George and all four of Mary’s children die in the Yellow Fever epidemicġ871 The Great Chicago fire destroys Mary Harris Jones dressmaking businessġ880s Mary Harris Jones joins the Knights of Laborġ890’s Mary Harris Jones transforms herself into Mother Jones, joins UMWA, begins to organize coal minersġ894 Mary Jones witnesses the brutal working conditions for children working in clothing mills and she solicited help for Coxey’s Army of unemployed as they traveled from Kansas City to Washington, D.C.ġ897 Mary Jones works in Pittsburgh to support workers during the nationwide coal strikeġ899 Mary Jones organizes miners’ wives into “mop and broom” brigades to halt strikebreakersġ900 The United Mine Workers of America president John Mitchell hires Mary Harris Jones.

Mary harris jones autobiography