South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com, "Mother Jones' Crusade"

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/ny-sbp_62503,0,4181270.story

Electronic transcript of an article, "100 Years Ago: The March of the Mill Children: Mother Jones Crusade" by Lawrence Striegel published in Newsday (newspaper from Long Island, NY). On the centennial anniversary it retells Mother Jones' March of the Mill Children. It also makes reference to a primary source letter by Benjamin F. Barnes, Theodore Roosevelt's secretary, who told Mother Jones that the it was not in the president's power to pass national labor laws, but the states must pass their own labor laws.

Referenced in:
The Most Dangerous Woman in America? The Mock Trial of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones