Mother Jones letters to Mrs. Conroy concerning strike involvement in Colorado, 1911.

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Mother Jones letters to Mrs. Conroy concerning strike involvement in Colorado, 1911.

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The collection consists of a typewritten letter (1911) and a handwritten letter fragment (undated, circa 1911) from the union organizer Mother Jones, then in Colorado, to the family of Joe Conroy in Herminie, Pennsylvania. The collection also includes a printed portrait of Jones and a photocopy of an article from FTWP News (Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania; February 1976) on the relationship between Jones and Conroy, written by Connie Zukauckas.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Jones, Mother, 1837-1930

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Union activist Mother Jones was born Mary Harris in Ireland and immigrated to the United States. She was a school teacher and married George Jones and had four children. By 1867, Jones had lost her family to a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the 1870s, "Mother" Jones began her long involvement in the labor struggle, by participating in various strikes such as the Pittsburgh Labor Riots (1877), the Western Virginia Anthracite Coal Strike (1902), and the Colorado Coal Field and A...

Zukauckas, Connie

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Conroy, Joe

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Conroy family,

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