Mother Jones: Alive and Still Kicking at 184
Wednesday, April 23, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
It’s turning out to be quite a year
for Mother Jones. Once dubbed “the most dangerous woman in America,”
Jones’
184th birthday will be celebrated with a wreath-laying in Silver Spring on May 1 that kicks off the
2014 DC LaborFest next week. On April 12, Jones was
inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame in Cork, Ireland, where she was
born. A restoration of her monument in the Union Miners' Cemetery in Mount
Olive, Illinois, is scheduled to occur within the next year, reports Larry
Spivack, Regional Director of AFSCME Council 31 in Chicago. “Mother Jones
exhorted us to ‘Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living’ so
it’s
only fitting that her spirit is alive and still kicking today,” says AFSCME
2910 president Saul Schniderman, who’s organizing the May 1 wreath-laying.
The
wreath is being provided by Union Plus via their flower service.