Mary Harris, más conocida como "Mother Jones" y como "Grandmother of agitators" (1 de mayu de 1830, Cork – 30 de payares de 1930, Silver Spring (es)
)[6], nacida n'Irlanda, foi una profesora d'escuela y cordudera quien se convirtió nuna prominente organizadora sindical y comuñal. Ayudó a coordinar importantes fuelgues y foi co-fundadora de la organización Trabayadores Industriales del Mundu.[7]
Jones trabayó como profesora y cordudera, pero depués de la muerte del so maríu y los sos cuatro fíos por cuenta de la fiebre mariello en 1867, y cuidao que'l so taller de cordura foi destruyíu nel Gran Quema de Chicago del 1871, a la edá de 60 años, ella fixo conocida como l'activista social 'Mother Jones'. En 1902 ella foi llamada "la muyer más peligrosa de Norteamérica" por cuenta del so ésitu na organización de trabayadores mineros y les sos families en contra de los dueños de les mineres. En 1903, pa protestar pola desdexosa aplicación de les lleis de trabayu infantil les mines de Pennsylvania y les fábriques de seda, entamó una marcha de neños dende Filadelfia a la residencia del Presidente Teodoro Roosvelt en Nueva York.
La revista Mother Jones[8] que foi establecida en 1970, foi asina nomada nel so honor.[9]
- ↑ Afirmao en: Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Identificador Encyclopædia Britannica Online: biography/Mother-Jones-American-labour-leader. Llingua de la obra o nome: inglés.
- ↑ «Jones, Mother (01 August 1837–30 November 1930), labor organizer». American National Biography Online. 29 payares 2017. doi:10.1093/ANB/9780198606697.ARTICLE.1500372.
- ↑ Afirmao en: autoridaes BNF. Identificador BnF: 11908979j. Data de consulta: 10 ochobre 2015. Autor: Biblioteca Nacional de Francia. Llingua de la obra o nome: francés.
- ↑ URL de la referencia: https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/mary-mother-harris-jones/.
- ↑ URL de la referencia: https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/hallofhonor/inductees.
- ↑ Maty Harris Jones, sitiu dixital 'Cork Mother Jones Committee', cita: … This plaque will be erected near the famous Cork Butter Market and will be unveiled on 1st August 2012 which is the 175th Anniversary of her baptism in the North Cathedral [St. Mary's Cathedral] (we have not been able to ascertain her actual date of birth but it would most likely have been a few days before this date). Her parents were Ellen Cotter, a native of Inchigeela and Richard Harris from Cork city. Few details of her early life in Cork have been uncovered to date, though it is thought by some that she was born on Blarney Street and may have attended the North Presentation Schools nearby. She and her family emigrated to Canada soon after the Famine, probably in the early 1850s. ….
- ↑ Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (biograthy), sitiu dixital 'Infoplease'.
- ↑ Mother Jones (magacín), sitiu dixital oficial.
- ↑ DMOZ, the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web; it is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteers editors; it was historically known as the Open Directory Project (ODP), sitiu dixital oficial, cita: Mother Jones - A bimonthly magazine of investigative journalism that exposes the evils of the corporate world, the government, and the mainstream media; it is also an exhaustive internet news source known as the Mueyo Wire, which seeks to provide "daily news for the skeptical citizen".