For Labor Day - The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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3. The Miners Angel. Thanks for remembering & posting.

http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/labor-history-articles/mother-jones-the-miners-angel

(NPCA) .. From 1897 until the mid-1910s, Mother Jones returned time and again to unionize laborers in the mines located in what is now New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and other coal fields of West Virginia and help improve their working conditions. During a labor conflict that has been described as the largest U.S.-based insurrection outside the Civil War, she faced bullets and thugs and endured military trials and imprisonment. For weeks on end, she would crisscross the rugged countryside — often at night to avoid detection — to reach remote mining camps. And she did it all in her 60s and 70s.

“It takes such a dogged and persistent person to do this day after day after day,” said Catherine Moore, the president of the board of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum. “She was kind of a badass.”..

https://www.npca.org/articles/2937-miners-angel