You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Saturday July 4, 1903
Colorado City, Colorado - The Smeltermen Strike for the Right to Join a Union
First and foremost, the smeltermen are fighting for the right to belong to a union. They want the reinstatement of their fellows workers fired for joining the Colorado City Smeltermen's Union Local 125 of the Western Federation of Miners. As Big Bill Haywood has put it:
I don't believe the company has any right to discharge men for joining the Masonic Lodge or the Knights of Pythias or any church or smeltermen's union if they so desire. I thought that was a right that was accorded to them as American Citizens.
SOURCE
Roughneck
The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood
-by Peter Carlson
NY, 1983
Friday July 4, 1913
Paterson, New Jersey - Quinlan gets 2-7 years, Flynn jury cannot reach agreement.
Yesterday was a busy day in the Passaic County Courtroom. I.W.W organizer, Patrick Quinlan, who was found guilty of inciting to riot a month ago, was called before Judge Klenert and sentenced:
Patrick Quinlan, the sentence of the law is that you shall be confined in state prison, at hard labor, for not more than seven years and not less than two years, and that you pay a fine of $500.
And in the trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the foreman of the jury reported that no agreement could be reached on a verdict. The jury was discharged at 4 P.M. As she waited for the verdict, Miss Flynn visited with her mother and her little son, a curly-haired boy who played at her feet.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
SOURCE
The New York Times
-of July 3, 1913
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-& July 4, 1913
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Thursday July 4, 2013
From Labor Notes: "At Last, Hyatt Workers Win Deal—With Room to Grow"
Jenny Brown reports this good news from UNITE HERE:
After an exasperating four-year campaign against the Hyatt hotel empire, the hotel workers union announced an agreement yesterday. In addition to long-awaited raises, the Chicago-based chain agreed to what UNITE HERE calls “a fair process” for recognizing unions at several Hyatt-owned and -operated hotels.
Union members in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Chicago will vote on the proposed contract in the coming weeks. If they vote yes, UNITE HERE’s international boycott of Hyatt will end....
The tipping point may well have come when President Obama nominated Pritzker for U.S. Secretary of Commerce. In May, hotel workers went to Washington to protest her nomination. “The Department of Commerce needs leadership far different from that demonstrated by Ms. Pritzker at Hyatt Hotels,” said the union....
Read full article here:
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Solidarity Dancing? Hell yeah!
UNITE HERE
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Hotel Workers Rising
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The Rebel Girl
Yes, she's there by your side with her courage and pride.
She's unequaled anywhere, and I'm proud to fight for freedom
With a Rebel Girl!
The Rebel Girl, written by Joe Hill and Hazel Dickens
Sung by Hazel Dickens