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Why were Mary Harris Jones's organizing activities blamed for violence?

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In 1913 her organizing activities were blamed for violence in West Virginia coal fields and she was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. The sentence was commuted and in 1914 her graphic description of the massacre of 20 people by machine-gun fire during a Ludlow Colo. miner's strike convinced President Wilson to try to mediate the dispute.

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