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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday February 5, 1913
New York, New York – The Garment Strike by Mary Marcy, Photos by Paul Thompson
From the International Socialist Review of February 1913:
THE NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS
By MARY E. MARCYPhotographs by Paul Thompson, New York.
[Part III of III]
Unlike the Lawrence strike, the strike of the New York garment workers is from the top DOWN; that is the union officials ordered the strike and have held the reins in their hands ever since. Without doubt they are trying to serve the strikers, but it is our opinion that they would build more permanently in permitting the strikers themselves to have the deciding voice in their own affairs; in teaching them self-reliance and class solidarity.
But the workers are finding out many things for themselves. They are thrilling with a new sense of power; they are learning the joy that comes when workers of whatever race or creed fight side by side in a great class struggle. The hope of victory and achievement is in the air and it is doubtful whether they will obey any orders from the union officials if their employers do not grant them appreciable benefits.
The heart of every true Socialist is with the strikers in this fight. We believe that the strike is a valuable form of direct action that teaches working class self-reliance and solidarity better than anything else. It teaches the workers to conduct their own fights. It brings out the class character of all existing social institutions. It teaches above all things, the necessity of revolutionary class unionism.
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[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Rose Schneiderman Quote, Stand Together to Resist Mar 20,
NY Independent p938, Apr 1905
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924106546991&view=2up&seq=960
International Socialist Review
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Feb 1913, -article begins on page 583
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v13n08-feb-1913-ISR-gog-ocr.pdf
See also:
Hellraisers Journal: From the International Socialist Review:
“The New York Garment Workers” by Mary E. Marcy
Part I
Part II
May 1912, The Atlantic Monthly
“The Lawrence Strike: A Study”
-by Lorin F. Deland
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/toc/1912/05/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1912/05/the-lawrence-strike-a-study/529506/
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1912/05/109-5/132328451.pdf
“The Real Bread and Roses Strike Story
Missing from Textbooks”
-by Robert Forrant, 2013
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/bread-and-roses-strike-story/
“The Intensive Organizing Behind One of History’s
Most Famous ‘Spontaneous’ Strikes”
-by G. DeJunz, 2020
https://organizing.work/2020/04/the-intensive-organizing-behind-one-of-historys-most-famous-spontaneous-strikes/
Tag: New York Garment Workers Strike of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/new-york-garment-workers-strike-of-1913/
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Bread and Roses – RnA
Lyrics by James Oppenhiem