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Shirtwaist Workers Strike 1909 - 1910

Shirtwaist Workers Strike 1909 - 1910. Rosa Schneiderman, Garment Worker. Child Labor. Average Shirtwaist Worker ’ s Week. Womens ’ Trade Union League. Women Voting for a Strike!. The Uprising of the Twenty Thousands (Dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909)

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Shirtwaist Workers Strike 1909 - 1910

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  1. Shirtwaist Workers Strike 1909 - 1910

  2. Rosa Schneiderman, Garment Worker

  3. Child Labor

  4. Average Shirtwaist Worker’s Week

  5. Womens’ Trade Union League

  6. Women Voting for a Strike!

  7. The Uprising of the Twenty Thousands (Dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909) In the black of the winter of nineteen nine,When we froze and bled on the picket line,We showed the world that women could fightAnd we rose and won with women's might. Chorus:Hail the waistmakers of nineteen nine,Making their stand on the picket line,Breaking the power of those who reign,Pointing the way, smashing the chain. And we gave new courage to the menWho carried on in nineteen tenAnd shoulder to shoulder we'll win through,Led by the I.L.G.W.U.

  8. Local 25 with Socialist Paper, The Call

  9. Social and Political Activists Carola Woerishoffer,Bryn Mawr Graduate Clara Lemlich,Labor Organizer

  10. Public Fear of Unions/Anarchists

  11. Arresting the Girl Strikersfor Picketing

  12. Scabs Hired

  13. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911

  14. “The Shirtwaist Kings”Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

  15. Triangle Shirtwaist FactoryAsch Building, 8th and 10th Floors

  16. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  17. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  18. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  19. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  20. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  21. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

  22. Inside the Building After the Fire

  23. Most Doors Were Locked

  24. Crumpled Fire Escape, 26 Died

  25. One of the Heroes

  26. 10th Floor After the Fire

  27. Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

  28. One of the “Lucky” Ones?

  29. Rose SchneidermanThe LastSurvivor

  30. Scene at the Morgue

  31. Relatives Review Bodies145 Dead

  32. Page of theNew York Journal

  33. One of the Many Funerals

  34. Protestors March to City Hall

  35. Labor Unions March as Mourners

  36. Women Workers Marchto City Hall

  37. The Investigation

  38. Francis PerkinsFuture Secetary Of Labor

  39. Alfred E. Smith – Future NYC Mayor and Presidential Candidate

  40. Future Senator Robert Wagner

  41. Out of the Ashes • ILGWU membership surged. • NYC created a Bureau of FirePrevention. • New strict building codes werepassed. • Tougher fire inspection ofsweatshops. • Growing momentum of support for women’s suffrage.

  42. The Foundations Were Laidfor the New Deal Here in 1911 • Al Smith ran unsuccessfully in 1928 on many of the reform programs that would be successful for another New Yorker 4 years later – FDR. • In the 1930s, the federal governmentcreated OSHA [the Occupational Safety& Health Administration]. • The Wagner Act. • Francis Perkins  first female Cabinetmember [Secretary of Labor] in FDR’sadministration.

  43. History of the Needlecraft Industry by Ernest Feeney, 1938

  44. Bibliography • Davis, Hadley. “Reform and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.”Concord Reviewwomenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tcr.org%2Ftriangle.html • “Famous Trials: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Trial - 1911.”www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.html • “The Triangle Fire.”www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

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