You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Monday February 8, 1904
From the Harrisburg Telegraph: Women's Club Discusses Wages of Working Women
Here we find a fascinating example of how upper class women regard working class women. Now, as to the view that the working class woman could be happy on 50 cents a day if only she were taught the attitude of "contentment," we suggest that these upper class women should try living on 50 cents a day and see, then, if they can maintain their attitude of contentment.
HAPPINESS AT CUT RATE
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Women Discuss Contentment on Fifty Cents a Day.
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"Can a woman be happy on 50 cents a day?"
This question stalked into the reciprocity meeting of the Englewood (Ill.) Woman's club the other day and put harmony to flight, says the Chicago Tribune.
The club was discussing " The Working Woman; How can we Help Her?" at the time. Mrs. Coonley Ward made a plea for the simpler life, and Mrs. Corinne Brown in answering her brought up the 50 cents a day topic.
"If the leisure classes would share the burden of work and live more simply," declared Mrs. Ward, "the conditions of the working people would be greatly bettered. The extravagance in overdress by the leisure class is what causes a great deal of the misery in the working class. The poorer try to imitate those who dress extravagantly, and this effort to imitate eats away their wages. If women would not be so prodigal in dress the working women would be better off."
Mrs. Brown and Dr. De Bey took issue with Mrs. Ward and wanted to know if she could live on 50 cents a day and be happy.
"I could live on 50 cents a day and possibly be happy in the tropics," declared Mrs. Ward, "where the demands of fashion are not so great."
"I could not live on 50 cents a day and would not, " declared Mrs. Brown. "If anybody told me I'd have to there'd be 'something doing.'" Mrs. Brown said the working woman could best be helped by being given better wages, taught independence and the value of organization. She said it was the duty of all women to stick by the working woman in her fight for higher wages.
"Higher wages is the chief ingredient of happiness. Money is the surest path to happiness," said she.
"A woman can be happy on 50 cents a day if she has contentment of mind and sweetness of spirit," declared Mrs. Le Grand Lockwood. "Education should simplify and sweeten our lives. It should give us enjoyment of what we have, no matter how little it is, and not make us miserable."
Mrs. Lockwood urged that the best way to help the working woman was to teach her contentment, to be happy with her lot.
Mrs. Charles M. Henrotin declared that the best way to help her is to give her greater opportunities.
First," said Mrs. Henrotin, "both the working woman and the woman of leisure should, above all else, keep in touch with their generation an its activities-they should develop intellectual hospitality.
"Secondly, give to the working woman opportunities and she will take care of herself. It is within the province of the women's clubs to see that greater opportunities are given to working women. To the women of leisure I would say: 'Develop your understanding of the daily lives of those around you, those who are the great mass of humanity. Listen to the heartbeats of the working woman and be in sympathy with her efforts.'"
Mrs. Henrotin read statistics to show that working women receive far less wages for the same amount of work than men. She cited figures in four industries which together employ 10,000 more women than men and which pay $30,000,000 less in wages to the women workers.
SOURCE
Harrisburg Telegraph
(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
-of Feb 8, 1904
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Sunday February 8, 1914
Ludlow Tent Colony, Colorado - Louie Tikas Loses Union Job, Leaves for Denver Tonight
Louie Tikas with star, John Lawson to his right.
We are receiving word that Louie Tikas has been replaced by the United Mine Workers as the leader of the Ludlow Tent Colony, and that International Organizer P. E. Quinn will replace him in that position. There is speculation voiced among some of the Greek miners in the colony that the union hierarchy wishes to oust Louie solely on the basis of his nationality. For every other nationality, there is one union representative for every 200 men. However, Louie Tikas was the only Greek organizer out of 547 Greek miners in Colorado. There are an estimated 16,000 Greek miners in the United States.
Louie Tikas will leave for Denver tonight. Tomorrow the House Subcommittee will convene in that city and begin to taking testimony in its investigation of conditions in the coalfields of Colorado. It is unclear at this time whether or not Louie will be called to testify. John Lawson and several other union leaders have left the southern field to attend the hearings tomorrow in Denver.
SOURCE
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Utah Press, 1982
Photo: Louie Tikas with John Lawson
http://ludlowsymposium.wordpress.com/...
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Saturday February 8, 2014
Memories of Louie Tikas:
In Loutra [Crete], Louis was remembered for his boyhood ability to tame wild animals, teaching rabbits to play with dogs, and birds with cats. Wild birds would sit on his shoulder when he called. His influence over his hot-blooded young Greek compatriots wasn’t so different, and in both Crete and among the strikers, Louis was remembered as “a courteous man” and “a gentleman”. The United Mine Workers Journal called Tikas “conservative” and “cool-headed” and praised his ability to preserve order “even under the most provoking circumstances”. John Lawson, a UMW organizer, said, “He was
one of the quietest men I have ever known and a man you could have absolute confidence in.” Mary Thomas, a miner’s wife, would recall decades later: “He was always dressed very smart …but he was well educated. And he was always a gentleman.” She was wrong about the education, but right about the dress. Photos of the time show that Tikas took pride in his appearance, and he sometimes displays the old-country cloth leggings wound from the ankle to the knee over his knee-length baggy Cretan pants.
Philip Van Cise, a Denver lawyer and Captain of the National Guard from 1910 to 1914 would call Tikas “the single greatest force for peace in the strike.” Even his bitter enemy, Lt. Karl Linderfelt of the state militia who would order his murder, admitted that, “he knew more in five minutes than Lawson or anyone else… about handling the foreigners in the tent colony.”
SOURCE
Road to Emmaus
A Journal of Orthodox Faith and Culture
"Louis Tikas: Passion-Bearer of the Colorado Coalfields"
pdf!: http://www.roadtoemmaus.net/...
(great photos with article)
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Working Class Hero-John Lennon
(With photos of Louie Tikas)
A working class hero is something to be
-John Lennon