New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-06

face. keen eyes. prominent chin. high cheek bones
a coarse voice and vigorous manner. She is tal
OF facts figures and fight. and her strong. warm
handshake is that of the walking delegate.
Her constant association with the horny hand
ed of toll has made her somewhat like him
Her personality is that OF the than OF the
woman. In public life. in the midst of the rush Of
organization Of hard fought strike, she shows
none of the sOftness and the sweetness Of a woman
but she gets at the hearts Of the men She has
more influence over them than most of the leaders
and she is a more welcome speaker. Others may
counsel mild measures-not she. She hits right
from the shoulder capital, and calls it the enemy
OF the workingman. II may be logical but il
wins attention and arouses enthusiasm She makes
him fight 1t as she does-vigorOusIy numerically.
No half way measures for her.
1T is her policy to select the dirtest and meauest
looking miner on the street and walk with him.
talking about his condition and the tyranny Of the
operators She will lead the boys in wild cheer
ing. she will march them in professions reaching
for the dramatic and spectacular effect She will
also go to their homes and confab with the wives
and children. arousing them to talk uniouisn or
strl ne 20 the husbands and brothers:
Mother Jones was born in Cork. Ireland and
became concerned in some political agitation for
IeelRs Irean9 Sne was then e.ght years Old, ana
The family went 10 Toronto, where she was we
debating. which mas never deserted her As a
young woman she attended public meetings for the
time. and then married George Jones. a moulGer
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courage his union. and she got other women inter-
ested She can claim some credit for the founding
or the women'S auXilfaries which are now f-arure
OF many labor organizations.
After six years of married life her great sorrow
came. yellow fever taking her husband and four
chlldren within week Then she first took an
acuVs part IN labor matters. and soon developed
into full-ledged agitator. She has since devoted
her NE 10 the work. She has fought Chinese i'm
misratlon IN California; has studied labor coRdi-
lions IN England. Ireland, Germany. France AUS
tria and in every State OF the Union: has worked
IN the cotton mills of the SO1tn TO secure practical
knowledSe or conditions. and then fought their
Improvement; labored during the great strikes fn
chicago. ana marched with CoXey's Army In brief
M9ther Jones mas been prominent in every strike
ana Big laoor movement in the country during the
last fifteen years. She has also travelled over
much or Europe
=. FOR the last Few years she has been with the
United Mine Workers II vas she who duri.e the
strike IN the anthracite region OF 1890 led bodies
stTikers and their women folk stop work at
colherleS Where the men st!ll held on: who out
marched and outmanduvred the soldiers sem 70
stop her, and In the end did much iowa RI closing
every colllery In the region. Only three wears be-
Iore, nineteen strikers had been killed ana two
score wounded by sherifTs posse on the same
ground but Mother Jones did not hriTs. her r1en
IN eonnict with the soldiers. She was TOO able a
general" - 49, $50