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History & Heritage of the Labor Movement. United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry of the United States & Canada. William English and the Rise of a Free People – Philadelphia July 4,1835. William English: Spokesman for Labor
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History & Heritage of the Labor Movement United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry of the United States & Canada
William English and the Rise of a Free People – Philadelphia July 4,1835 • William English: Spokesman for Labor • Philadelphia: 2nd Largest City • Craft Union Awareness & Action • Plumbers & 18 Other Trades Strike—June 1835 • 10 Hour Day Demand • Labor and Political Action? • Symbols and Images of Labor: English/American • UA Symbols and Images
Philadelphia ca. 1835 Labor Parade • Philadelphia Parade • at a later date • Butchers Marching • No Photo or • Painting of • William English • Notable Labor • features of Picture? George Meany Memorial Archives, Schnapper Collection Box 1, Folder 3
William English’s OrationDelivered at the Trades’ Union CelebrationPhiladelphia July 4, 1835
Wily Schemes • Heartless Aristocrats • Powerful Engine of Trade Unions • Glorious Emancipation
We have suffered many wrongs • None have made inroads upon our rights as those proceeding from legislative enactments • Privileges granted to the wealthy • We have become impoverished
Once a year they call us men; one a year we receive the proud appellation of freemen; once a year we are the intelligent, virtuous, orderly, working men. But then they want our votes, and they flatter us; they want our interest, and the fawn upon us;
Beware of the bowing, cringing, sycophantic politician, his very touch is pollution. When you meet one who fears to offend the aristocracy and dares not offend the journeymen, beware of that man, there is no sincerity in him Radical Reformer and Working Man’s Advocate: A Philadelphia Weekly Publication (1836) p.119, 122 & 128
10 Hour Banner(front) Philadelphia June 1835 Work 6 to 6 2 hrs for Meals Apprentice University of Maryland Archives, United Brotherhood of Carpenters’ Collection
10 Hour Banner(back) • Notable features of Image? • Compare to front side University of Maryland Archives, United Brotherhood of Carpenters’ Collection
“All Her Sons Join in One Social Band”: Visual Images of New York Artisan Societies in the Early Republic • English Roots of Labor Symbols & Images • Religious Fraternities & Patron Saint of a Craft • Craft Quality, Wages, etc. by Crown or Municipal Recognition • Coat of Arms for each craft or company • Special Dress and other Regalia • American Masters’ Societies and Journeymen Associations • Artisan Banners, Mottos, Certificates, Dress, Insignia • Journeymen’s growing struggle to defend wages, jobs, & standing