George Bernard Shaw – WE NEVER FORGET

Quote Magistrate Olmstead, On Strike Against God, The Public p33, Jan 14, 1910 ———-

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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A GIRL STIRS UP SOCIALISTS.
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COMRADE ELIZABETH FLYNN
A LEADER AT 15.
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“The Daughter of the Reds.” They Call Her, and Maybe They’ll Elect Her President Yet-Not Yet Out of School, She Captures Meetings With Her Oratory Has Radical Theories and Doesn’t Care for Love, Clothes or Matinees.

EGF, Girl Socialist at 15, NYS Apr 8, 1906

Within the last few weeks there has appeared at various social reform meetings a young girl-she is said to be only 15-with the high, broad forehead and the dream filled, far gazing eyes of the idealist; a skin of almost infantile pinkness and whiteness and a mass of flyaway black hair, tied loosely in schoolgirl fashion at the back of her neck who has electrified the audiences by joining in the debate with a certainty of manner, an eloquence of expression and a lucidity of thought that have surprised experienced speakers and even professional radicals.

Her speeches have been the more impressive because she is good to look upon. Added to the charm of her youth and her unusual gifts in line and color harmonies her face is bright and expressive. Her deep blue eyes are of unusual size and purity of color. The delicate, sensitive mouth has a queer little quivering twist of the upper lip. The nostrils of the clear cut, high bridged nose are thin and vibrant. The chin is small, pointed, delicately modelled.

She has always been simply dressed in the regulation schoolgirl shirtwaist and short skirt. Her attire shows a certain inattention to details that betrays a lack of interest in the whole subject of clothes. She is the average height of girls of 15, slender and girlishly immature.

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A GIRL STIRS UP SOCIALISTS.
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COMRADE ELIZABETH FLYNN
A LEADER AT 15.
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A GIRL STIRS UP SOCIALISTS. —–

COMRADE ELIZABETH FLYNN A LEADER AT 15. —–

A GIRL STIRS UP SOCIALISTS.
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COMRADE ELIZABETH FLYNN
A LEADER AT 15.
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