It's 1903. James is ten years old. He works in a textile mill for $2.00 a week. He hates it. The work is hard and dangerous. His little sister and other children work there too.  

A feisty little old lady called Mother Jones thinks the children are too young to work. One day she organizes a march to ask President Theodore Roosevelt for help. James and a hundred other children leave home to go. They walk from Philadelphia, through a part of New Jersey, and on to New York City to see the President at his summer home in Oyster Bay.

Children will enjoy this easy-reading story about our country's first woman labor organizer in which James "tells it like it was."

From the dust jacket