Legendary Mother Jones Came to Help Striking Utah Coal Miners

Jeffrey D. Nichols History Blazer, March 1995 Wherever American workers struggled to improve their conditions of labor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mary Harris Jones was likely to be there. A tireless champion of workers’ rights, Mother Jones, as she was called, was involved in the great railroad strike of 1877, the Haymarket riot of 1896, and …