Mary “Mother Jones” Harris, a popular labor activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, set out to bring national attention to the topic of child labor in an effort to develop national legislature abolishing the practice. On July 7, 1903 Mother Jones led a labor march that became known as the “March of the Mill Children.” She attempted to get national attention through newspaper coverage at the beginning of the march in Philadelphia, but was turned down by local newspapers due to mill-owners also being stock holders in the papers, only when other newspapers from outside the area started covering the march did the Philadelphia papers begin their coverage. The march began with a rally at the City Hall in Philadelphia where Mother Jones showed the public children with crushed hands and
Mary “Mother Jones” Harris, a popular labor activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, set out to bring national attention to the topic of child labor in an effort to develop national legislature abolishing the practice. On July 7, 1903 Mother Jones led a labor march that became known as the “March of the Mill Children.” She attempted to get national attention through newspaper coverage at the beginning of the march in Philadelphia, but was turned down by local newspapers due to mill-owners also being stock holders in the papers, only when other newspapers from outside the area started covering the march did the Philadelphia papers begin their coverage. The march began with a rally at the City Hall in Philadelphia where Mother Jones showed the public children with crushed hands and