You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Thursday July 30, 1903
Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York - Mother Jones not allowed to see the President.
Mother Jones arrived in Oyster Bay yesterday morning from New York City on the 10:20 train. She came with two union men and three little boys who work away their childhoods in the textile mills of Philadelphia. She made her way to the office of Acting Secretary B. F. Barnes to ask him to arrange a meeting for her with President Roosevelt. Mr. Barnes told Mother that the President would not see her without an appointment, and advised Mother to write a letter requesting such a meeting. Mother Jones agreed to write the letter and left the Secretary's office.
The six Crusaders walked back to the station and took the 11:14 train back to New York City.
SOURCES
The New York Times
-of July 30, 1903
http://select.nytimes.com/...
The Correspondence of Mother Jones
-ed byEdward M. Steel
U of Pittsburgh Press, 1885
The Children's Crusade Summary
Day 23: Tuesday July 29, 1903
To Oyster Bay. Roosevelt will not meet with Mother & the mill children.
End of the Children's Crusade.
(Use with "get directions" on google maps to follow general route of march.)
Wednesday July 30, 1913
Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan - Demands of the Copper Strikers Made Public
Guy Miller, executive board member of the Western Federation of Miners has made public the following demands of the striking copper miners:
1. an 8-hour day
2. a minimum wage of $3 a day for all underground workers
3. abolition of the one-man drill
4. a formal system for hearing workers' grievances
5. recognition of the Western Federation of Miners as bargaining agent for the mine workers
The president and secretary-treasurer of the district union, Dan Sullivan and Charles E. Hietala, expressed the strikers' view to the press, stating that they had a right to a voice as to the wages, hours, and conditions under which they labor:
That is what is meant by recognition of the union and constitutes the longest step yet taken toward the establishment of justice and industrial peace..we submit to all fair-minded citizens that the employees of any company have a right to organize and negotiate through their chosen representatives with their employers for a redress of grievances.
Rebels on the Range
-by Arthur W Thurner
MI, 1984
Tuesday July 30, 2013
From Independent Online: "Apple Rocked by Child Labor Claims"
More reporting on the China Labor Watch report on the use of child labor by Apple supplier in China:
Perhaps most shocking was the way Pegatron hired children under the age of 18 and made them work in the same poor conditions as adult staff. In total there were 10 000 aged between 16 and 20 working in crowded production rooms doing the same tasks as adults. But some were paid less and others did not have their wages paid on time.
The CLW investigators said: “Despite its professed high standards for the treatment of Apple workers, serious labour violations have persisted… Apple must prioritise its efforts [to halt] the abuse of workers making Apple products.”
Read full article here:
http://www.iol.co.za/...
China Labor Watch
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/
Press release from China Labor Watch
-with link to the report:
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/...
The Internationale in Chinese
Arise ye pris'ners of starvation
Arise ye wretched of the earth
For justice thunders condemnation
A better world's in birth!
Charles H Kerr Translation