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Hellraisers Journal – Monday January 17, 1910
New York, New York – Shirtwaist Makers: “On Strike Against God”
From The Public of January 14, 1910:
The Girls’ Strike in New York Winning Out.
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More than 30,000 of the shirtwaist makers on strike in New York [see The Public of January 7] were reported on the 7th to have won their fight. Two hundred and seventy-one manufacturers had at that time signed the agreement with the union, granting all the demands of the girls. There were still about 6,000 girls out.
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One of the men strikers who recently appeared in the Children’s court against a strike-breaker, was asked by Magistrate Olmstead if he were working. “Not now,” replied the striker, “we are on strike.” “No,” said Magistrate Olmstead. “I know you are not working and are on strike. You are on strike against God and nature, whose prime law is that man shall earn his bread in the sweat of his brow. You are on strike against God.” Thereupon Elizabeth Dutcher of the Women’s Trade Union League sent the following cablegram to George Bernard Shaw:
Shaw, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London.
Magistrate tells shirtwaist maker here he is on strike against God, whose prime law is man should earn bread in sweat of brow. Please characterize. Reply. Charges paid.
The following reply was promptly received:
Women’s Trade Union League, New York.
Delightful, medieval America always in the intimate personal confidence of the Almighty.
BERNARD SHAW.
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[Photographs and emphasis added.]
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SOURCE
The Public: A Journal Democracy, Volume 13
-Louis F Post, Editor
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jan 7-Dec 30, 1910
https://books.google.com/books?id=ul5-DusBOgYC
The Public of Jan 14, 1910 -p25
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ul5-DusBOgYC&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA25
-page 33: “Girls Strike in NY Winning Out”
-re Judge Olmstead: “you are on strike against God and nature”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ul5-DusBOgYC&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA33
The Public of Jan 7, 1910
-p11: “The Strike of the Forty Thousand.”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ul5-DusBOgYC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA11
The Public Vol 12, pages 1133, 1227
-Nov 26, 1909 page 1133: “Government of Laws or Men?”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=pDzmAAAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1133
-Dec 24, 1909 page 1227: “Civic Advent of Women”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=pDzmAAAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1227
IMAGES
NYC Uprising, Strikers March on East Side Street, Chg ULA-Jan 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA21
NYC Uprising, Arrest and Arrival at Police Station, Chg ULA-Jan 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA22
WTUL Emblem, Chg ULA-Jan 1909
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA20
See also:
Tag: NYC Waistmakers Uprising of 1909-1910
https://weneverforget.org/tag/nyc-waistmakers-uprising-of-1909-1910/
George Bernard Shaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
Union Labor Advocate,Volumes 10-11
Devoted to the Interest of All Union Labor and Labels
-Jan 1909 to Dec 1910
Publisher: George Hodge, 1909-1910
https://books.google.com/books?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC
Re Elizabeth Dutcher, see NY WTUL Executive Board as of March 1, 1909
-from Chg ULA of April 1909, page 27
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA3-PA27
WTUL’s Section of Chicago Union Labor Advocate p19, Jan 1910
Ad for WTUL on p18 of ULA, Jan 1910
Jan 1909-Union Labor Advocate
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA1
WTUL-Emblem & Officers: National + Boston, NYC, St Louis, Chicago
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA20
Jan 1910-Union Labor Advocate
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA1
Ad: National Women’s Trade Union League
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA18
Photo: AD WTUL, Chg Un Lbr Advocate p18, Jan 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA18
Photo: WTUL Section-Chg Un Lbr Advocate
Long Article: “The Strike of the Forty Thousand”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA19
Photo: NYC Uprising, Strikers March on East Side Street
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA21
Photo: NYC Uprising, Arrest n Arrival at Police Station
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WB6l6ahRP6UC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA12-PA22
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