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PowerPoint Slide Show, Unit 3, Lesson 1 Early Labor Movement. Media Construction Of Social Justice. Painting by Marshall Arisman . Build shops and buy tools out of your savings Cooperate. Spend your evenings with your family Don ’ t support drunkards and lazy workmen or demagogues.
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PowerPoint Slide Show, Unit 3, Lesson 1 Early Labor Movement Media Construction Of Social Justice
Painting by Marshall Arisman
Build shops and buy tools out of your savings Cooperate. Spend your evenings with your family Don’t support drunkards and lazy workmen or demagogues Strike for your homes --never mind if your family does starve Inferior workmen that have not learned their trades can secure the same wages that the best workman gets by joining our society We must be boss, because we outnumber you The avenues to capital must be closed We are the enemies to capital No man has a right to possess what we do not possess Meetings every evening for arranging strikes Non-union man beware Be master of your own savings Study how much you can work, not how little Labor is the workingman’s capital
Monopolist American workman Strikes Pauper labor Emigrants “As long as I am plentifully supplied with immigrant labor I shall be deaf to the demands of the native workingmen”
“Coming from the Relief Store” illustration from the book The Pullman Strike: The Classic First-Hand Account Of An Epoch-Making Struggle In US Labor History Published in 1894 Chicago Tribune headlines June 1, 1894
Miners can make from $2.75 to $4.00 per day Transportation will be furnished and ample time given you to pay the same
Subscribe for the INDUSTRIAL WORKER Foremost exponent of Revolutionary INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM Published in the English language One dollar per year 3 months 25c Capitalism We Rule You We Fool You We Shoot at You We Eat For You We Feed All We Work For All
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The Flames Spread with Deadly Rapidity Through Flimsy Material Used in the Factory. 600 GIRLS ARE HEMMED IN When Elevators Stop Many Jump to Certain Death and Others Perish in Fire-Filled Lofts STUDENTS RESCUE SOME Help Them to Roof of New York University Building, Keeping the Panic-Stricken in Check ONE MAN TAKEN OUT ALIVE Plunged to Bottom of Elevator Shaft and Lived There Amid Flames for Four Hours ONLY ONE FIRE ESCAPE Coroner Declares Building Laws Were Not Enforced – Building Modern – Classed Fireproof JUST READY TO GO HOME Victims Would Have Ended Day’s Work in a Few Minutes – Pay Envelopes Identify Many MOB STORMS THE MORGUE Seeking to Learn the Fate of Relatives Employed by the Triangle Waist Company
Do you find things working alright? Some team AGITATION Don’t do that The weekly pay envelope
Grrrr! They dare question my divine right! I’ll have them clubbed G-d D-mn umm!!