Mother Jones
by Cheryl E. Kemeny
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Mary Harris Jones, aka "Mother Jones" aka, "The Most Dangerous Women in America", was a crusader for worker's rights, both for adults and children, This musical play by Cheryl E. Kemeny chronicles her story. In West Virginia, she leads the wives on a “pots and pans” march against the mine operators and their scabs by convincing them, “they’ll never get to heaven unless they raise a little Hell!” – her motto. When asked why she “does what she does”, she reveals that she is moved to help people because of the deaths of her 4 children and union activist husband from Yellow Fever in Memphis, in 1867. In Pennsylvania, she leads mill workers to strike but when a young girl is killed, she organizes the “March of the Mill Children” to see President Teddy Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, Long Island. She is rebuffed, but the public awareness she creates results in nationwide child labor law reforms. 16 songs. Long synopsis: