Today in 1903 Labor organizer Mother Jones led a march of child textile workers from Philadelphia toward President Theodore Roosevelt’s summer home in New York to expose the brutal realities of child labor.
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General Membership Meetings Members in attendance at the May meetings voted to suspend membership meetings for June, July, and August.