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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday March 28, 1911
“How Long Will the Workers Permit Themselves
to Be Burned as Well as Enslaved in Their Shops?”
From The New York Call of March 27, 1911:
[Detail.]
From The Chicago Daily Socialist of March 27, 1911:
[Detail.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Morris Rosenfeld, Mayn Rue Platz, see Silverman, 2010
(search: “my resting place”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=KZGzTqIJwqoC
The New York Call
(New York, New York)
-Mar 27, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/the-new-york-call/1911/110327-newyorkcall-v04n086.pdf
The Chicago Daily Socialist
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Mar 27, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/chicago-daily-socialist/1911/110327-chicagodailysocialist-v05n129.pdf
See also:
Tag: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
https://weneverforget.org/tag/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/
Morris Rosenfeld
https://yiddishkayt.org/view/morris-rosenfeld/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Rosenfeld
re Mayn Rue Platz
-Most modern-day sources state poem/song was written in 1911, in response to Triangle Fire, but no sources sited for that assertion, example:
March 10, 2011, Forward
“Dreams and Disillusion: ‘Mayn Rue-Platz’ by Morris Rosenfeld”
by Michael Imlah
https://forward.com/schmooze/136079/dreams-and-disillusion-mayn-rue-platz-by-morris-r/
–This is the earliest, thus far, that I have found “Mayn Rue Platz/My Resting Place,” translated:
Friends’ Intelligencer (Philadelphia) of Fifth Month 10, 1913:
(search: rosenfeld)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ppg6AQAAMAAJ
Jan 18, 1914, Chicago Inter Ocean-Morris Rosenfeld, Poet of the Sweat Shops, “My Resting Place”
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74566851/jan-18-1914-chicago-inter/
–Beautiful rendition here by Yiddish Community Chorus of Boston Workmen’s Circle.
https://jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/documentstudies/poetry-and-song
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Mayn Rue Platz – Vocolot
-“written in 1911 by Morris Rosenfeld to commemorate the [Triangle] fire”
http://open-archive.rememberthetrianglefire.org/mayn-rue-platz-my-resting-place/