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West Virginia Archives and History, " 'Mother' Jones Arrested in City"

http://www.wvculture.org/HISTORY/labor/motherjones03.html

This transcript of an article printed in the Charleston Gazette February 14, 1913, identifies her as “Mrs. Mary Jones, better known throughout the coal fields of West Virginia and other mining states as "Mother" Jones, the angel of the miners,…” The article also calls Mother Jones an “aged agitator.” Yet the author recognized “the deep respect which the miners have for the advocate” and feared Jones’ “arrest… may be the instigation of another outbreak of violence among the striking miners.”

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

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