- March of the Mill Children, Mother Jones, 1903. Activist Mother Jones led the walk with children who worked in Philadelphia, Pa. textile mills and Pennsylvania mines to the summer home of President Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill on Long Island, NY.
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- Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – Nov. 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the socialist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).. 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing miners and their families against the mine owners.
In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones
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- Why Child Labor In America Is Skyrocketing: Robert Reich, (DU, April 2024)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/111697939
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