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Benefit Performance of Mother Jones for Justus Howell College Scholarship Fund

Justus Howell and Mother Jones

Betsey Means will be hosting a benefit performance at the Meetinghouse for the Justus Howell College Scholarship Fund on March 24th at 6 p.m. Betsey will perform Mother Jones (1830-1930) who was a labor leader. She was a spectacular, controversial woman in an occupation-and a timefilled with danger. America was just becoming an industrial nation when Mother Jones started out The majority of working people put in twelve to fourteen hours a day for wages that were pitifully low. The workers were struggling with conditions that amounted, she said, to slavery. On May 29, 1903, 100,000 workers including 16,000 children left their jobs at 600 mills in the Philadelphia area. Mother Jones considered child labor the worst of industrial sins. She seized upon the idea of marching the mill children from Kensington, Pennsylvania to President Roosevelt’s home at Oyster Bay in Long Island some 125 miles away. Mother Jones wanted to publicize the unspeakable crime of child labor. Donations for the scholarship are tax deductible. Make checks payable to F.O.C.U.S.

Saturday, March 24, 2018 - 6:00pm
Lake Forest Friends Meeting
101 W. Old Elm Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045
United States
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