Mother Jones Research Paper

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Imagine little kids having to work hard, risking their hands and legs. Well, that was the injustice that Mother Jones fought for. In the early 1900s, children in the textile mills of Philadelphia had to work long, hard, and dangerous hours. However, Mother Jones saw this and went on to protest against it. I think that Mother Jones was very fearless and brave in standing up to the US government about child labor laws. In June 1903 Mother Jones went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was the heart of a vast textile industry. Mother Jones saw almost 100,000 workers from 6 different mills on strike. My evidence for this is that “The strikers wanted their workweek cut from sixty to fifty-five hours, even if it meant lower wages. About a sixth of the workers were children under 16”(3). Mother Jones saw how dangerous this job was for children, so on July 7, 1903, Mother Jones started the “March of the Mill”. The lives of many would be impacted that day. …show more content…
Mother Jones met some of the children working at the mill, who all had injuries. My evidence for this is “Even worse she saw some with their hands off, some with the thumb, some with their fingers off at the knuckles- victims of mill accidents”(4). So Mother Jones, at 73, gathered a large group of mill children and their parents and started marching to then-president Theodore Roosevelt's home in Oyster Bay, New York. Although Mother Jones wouldn't be able to see it, in 1938, 35 years after the “March of the Mill” child labor law was