Sunday June 7, 1903
Chicago, Illinois - Dainty Lady Blows Whistle, Calls Girls Out On Strike
Leo Schultz who was arrested yesterday at the Athletic Club while calling the workers there out on strike, was released later in the evening after paying bail of $700. He returned to the Restaurant Employees Union Hall where he was met by wild cheering.
Meanwhile, the Siegal, Cooper & Co. restaurant was having its own problems. A well-dressed, silk-parasol carrying Miss Chilton entered this fine establishment and seated herself for lunch. She then took out a small whistle, and blew it in a most unladylike manner. "Come on girls," she shouted, "a strike is on."
The girls answered the call and began to file out. At the elevator a forewoman threw her arms around one of the girls and begged her to come back. The girl striker replied:
We will when the strike is over!
SOURCE
Chicago Daily Tribune
-of June 7, 1903
Saturday June 7, 1913
New York City, New York - Paterson Silk Strikers March to Madison Square Garden
This morning 1,200 strikers crossed the Hudson river and marched to Madison Square Garden. Every night for the past week a huge electric sign with the letters "I.W.W." has been flaming with red lamps. Here they will perform in the "Pageant of the Paterson Strikers." The stage is ready with a huge scene depicting the silk factories with their smokestacks and chimneys. The strikers will tell the story of their lives as silk workers to a New York audience. Music will play a major role in telling this story. Some of the songs have been written by the strikers themselves and will be performed for the first time during tonight's performance.
SOURCE
The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood
International Pub, 1983
Friday June 7, 2013
From RespectRide at YouTube: Video posted yesterday of Protest at Bentonville
Kalpona Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity demands safe working conditions for workers in Bangladesh:
Walmart members, #WalmartStrikers, and activists like former Bangladeshi child garment worker Kalpona Akter led a demonsration in Bentonville to tell Walmart its time to put people over profits, and sign the Bangladesh fire safety accord, so that tragedies like the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh, that claimed over 1200 lives, will not happen again.
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New Lyrics:
Which side are you on, Walmart,
Which side are you on.
You're either on the side of safety
Or you're on the side of murder.
Solidarity,
JayRaye