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.