![]() ![]() Favorite Cake Competition begins at 4 PM on February 27th. February 27th, the Annual Meeting of the Trustees at Birmingham Botanical Gardens 5:30PM.One of the Jones’ key contributions was building workers’ commitment to unionism that bridged racial and ethnic divisions.” Excerpted from Mother Jones Museum Battle of Virden coal miners Illinois miners Mother Jones Mother Jones Museum Union Miners Cemetery unions Virden workers’ rights She put women and children at the center of struggles in the coal fields, making a family-based movement. She believed that the so-called unskilled worker, immigrants and African-Americans should be the base of the new movement. She believed in organizing at the community level to demonstrate workers capacity for managing their destiny. She argued that ordinary miners should direct their economic destiny and that the public should own the coal and natural resources, not corporations. For her, it was more than about union contract. Jones was a strategic part of the union since that time. ![]() “In 1897, the United Mine Workers launched a strike for a living wage in the coal fields. She is buried in the Union Miners Cemetery and is the namesake for the museum where the anniversary event will be held. Mother Jones was a fearless fighter for workers’ rights and wanted to be known as the ‘mother of all agitators’. Today, (125 years) after the bloody Battle of Virden, there is an even more pressing need to explain how this intense battle came about, who the union fighters were, what they achieved, and failed to achieved, and why the lessons of Virden are still relevant to working people today. ![]()
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