| Jefferson County Jail |
Corner of N. George & E. Liberty Streets; Downtown Charles Town Historic District |
Charles Town |
WV |
Miners who fought for recognition of the UMWA at the Battle of Blair Mountain were incarcerated here before their trial in the Jefferson County Courthouse in April, 1922. Most miners were acquitted of charges, and those convicted were paroled in 1925. |
| Johnstown Corporation Plaque |
Johnstown Corporation property on Central Avenue |
Johnstown |
PA |
Memorializes 3 workers at Johnstown Corporation who lost their lives on Dec 13, 1989 while at work. Hot metal escaped from a mold and the 3 men died instantly from breathing superheated air. |
| Jones, Mary Harris "Mother" and Miners' Monument |
Union Miners' Cemetery |
Mount Olive |
IL |
Granite spire marks the grave of Mother Jones (1830-1930), fiery champion of organized labor. Buried in 1930's only union-owned cemetery next to "her boys"--4 miners killed in a skirmish between striking workers & mine guards at the Virden Mine in 1898. |
| Jones, Mary Harris "Mother", Prison Site |
on WV 61 |
Pratt |
WV |
During the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912-1913, troopers arrested Mother Jones and illegally held her in this house for 85 days. She was still able to get messages concerning conditions of miners to a US Senate investigation committee. |
| Jones, Mary Harris "Mother," Historical Marker |
Powder Mill & Riggs Roads |
Adelphi, Prince Georges County |
MD |
Marks the place of Mother Jones' death at the Burgess Farm on November 30, 1930. Jones spent the last 2 years of her life being cared for by Lillie May Burgess. Mother Jones celebrated her 100th birthday at the farm on May 1, 1930. |
| Jones, Walter, Memorial |
|
Birmingham |
AL |
Jones spent his life working in the coal mines and the union. He was an officer of the union until 1917, then was brought to the district office of the UMWA and later was an international organizer until 1922 when the UMWA was forced out of Alabama. |
