 “No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”
Mother Jones on this date in 1899 organized the wives of striking miners in Arnot, Pennsylvania to descend on the mine with brooms, mops and clanging pots and pans. They frightened away the mules and their scab drivers and the miners eventually won their strike. Read more here. Comments are closed.
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