Jones, Mary.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Mary "Mother" Jones Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1823
Overview
Letter from Mary "Mother" Jones to T.V. Powderly, Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. "Mother" Jones introduces Fred Mooney, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, District 17, asks Powderly to get him a passport, and says she does not know when she will leave for Mexico.
Dates:
1920
Mother Jones Typescript Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2778
Overview
Typescript memoir of the life of Mother Jones, entitled "Mother Jones: the Life Story of the Irish Immigrant Girl Who Became the Most Unique Character in the American Labor Movement, Living Past 100 Years," written by Lillie May Burgess of Hyattsville, Maryland, and copyrighted 8 February 1938. The manuscript is in two parts, several pages of which are missing. The first part (241pp.) is entitled "The Life Story of Mother Jones: American Labor's Joan of Arc," and is a narration of events in...
Dates:
1938
Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates:
1880-1935
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Women -- United States -- History 2
- Agriculture 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Colorado 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mexico 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- West Virginia 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women brewery workers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
- Women labor union members 1
- Women textile workers 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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