June 22, 2015

Monument to labor activist Mother Jones rededicated

MOUNT OLIVE, Ill. (AP) - The monument to "the grandmother of all agitators" in Mount Olive has been rededicated.

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones requested burial among the rank-and-file workers in the Union Miners Cemetery when she died in 1930.

The (Springfield) State-Journal Register reports (http://bit.ly/1TFRVwa ) that more than $76,000 ...

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