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Mother Jones, 1915. Employment activist Mary G. Harris Jones (1837-1930) was attending the 1915 hearings of the federal Commission on Industrial Relations at the New York City Hall, New York City. Jones was a schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union and community organiser and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labour, and co-founded the trade union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).