What is Mary Harris Jones?
{{Infobox person | name = Mother Jones | image = Mother Jones 1902-11-04.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1837|08|01}} | birth_place = [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]] | death_date = {{death date|1930|11|30}} | death_place = [[Adelphi, Maryland|Adelphi]], [[Maryland]], [[United States]] | occupation = [[Union organizer|Labor]] and [[community organizing|community organizer]] | party = [[Social Democratic Party (United States)|Social Democratic Party]] and [[Socialist Party of America]] | spouse = | parents = | children = }} [[File:Workers Memorial Day poster.jpg|[[United States Department of Labor]] poster, 2010|thumb]] '''Mary Harris Jones''' (1837-November 30, 1930) was an [[Americans|American]] [[teacher|schoolteacher]] and [[tailor]].<ref>Elliott J. Gorn, ''Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America'' (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002), p. 149</ref> In 1867 her husband and their four children died of [[yellow fever]] during an [[epidemic]].<ref>Elliott J. Gorn, ''Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America'' (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002), p. 180</ref> There was a fire in Chicago, in 1871. Harris Jones' workshop was destroyed in that fire; she lost everything she had.<ref name=Olson149>James Stuart Olson, ''Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in America'' (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), p. 149</ref> She turned towards the [[Knights of Labor]].<ref name=Olson149/> The Knights of Labor was an [[association]] of workers who also accepted black people and women. From this point on, Harris Jones became active in the [[labour movement]], fighting for better working conditions and better pay of the workers.<ref name=Olson149/> In 1905, she was a founding member of [[Industrial Workers of the World]], a [[trade union]].<ref name=Olson149/> She was an amazing speaker because she was able to use stories as examples in her speeches, and she could also make the audience participate. In 1897, she got the ti