Mother Jones Launches DC LaborFest Tomorrow
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The first annual DC
LaborFest -- a month-long celebration of labor arts -- kicks off
tomorrow, Thursday, May 1, with a midday May
Day wreath-laying in honor of legendary labor organizer Mary
Harris “Mother” Jones’
184th birthday. Join Metro Washington Council president Jos Williams,
wreath-laying
organizer Saul Schniderman, David Kameras of the United Mine Workers, UnionPlus
president Leslie Tolf and more as they pay tribute to the labor movement icon
-- called "the Joan of Arc of the Labor Movement," "the Miners'
Angel," "the Most Dangerous Woman in America" and, in her later
years, the "Grand Old Champion of Labor" -- and launch the first-ever
DC LaborFest. Click here
to see and hear Mother Jones speak on May 1,
1930. 12:30p, 2601 Powder Mill Rd Silver
Spring, MD 20903 in front of the Hillandale Baptist Church; Schniderman and
Marat Moore will share Mother Jones memorabilia after the wreath-laying.