&quot;Mother&quot; Jones became a labor organizer at the age of 50 and then led strikes in mines and publicized dangers of child labor in textile mills for another nearly 50 years. She traveled constantly without a permanent home. Jones led miners’ wives armed only with brooms and mops as they chased off strikebreakers. She led a march of child mill workers from Pennsylvania to President Roosevelt’s home on Long Island to dramatize the evils of child labor.⠀