You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday February 7, 1904
From The New York Times: "Coal Strike Not Expected.
Pittsburg, Feb 5.-Francis L. Robbins, President of the Pittsburgh and Monongahela Coal Companies, said to-day:
"I do not fear that a strike will result because the operators of four states could not agree with the miners at Indianapolis. The Miners have to much sense to insist on the scale of 1903 when every commodity is decreasing in price. We will meet again Feb. 15, and I expect a settlement will be reached."
William Dodds, local Secretary of the miners, who also attended the Indianapolis conference, said:
I think that by the next meeting an amicable agreement will be reached. I do not anticipate a strike."
SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-of Feb 6, 1904
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Saturday February 7, 1914
From The New York Times: Militant Girls on the Picket Line in Chicago.
Chicago, Feb. 6-Eleven young women acting as pickets in front of a downtown restaurant where the waitresses were on strike, were arrested today. All were released on bond.
When a squad of policemen arrived the girls adopted militant tactics and seated themselves on the slushy sidewalk.
"You'll have to carry us to the station," they said when told by the police to "come along."
The police lifted the girls to their feet and half dragged them to the station.
SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-of Feb 7, 1914
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Friday February 7, 2014
"Seattle waitresses unionize on November 23, 1900."
On November 23, 1900, 40 Seattle waitresses organize a union. It is Local No. 240 of Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance. Before they were organized, waitresses worked 12 to 15 hours a day seven days a week and earned an average of $1.30 per day.
By 1902 membership had increased to 195 and hours had been reduced to 10 hours per day seven days a week.
SOURCE
History Link
http://www.historylink.org/...
Photo: Seattle Waitresses Union
-see link above
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And the Struggle Continues!