The New York shirtwaist strike of 1909, known also as the Uprising of the 20,000, was a labor strike primarily of Jewish women working in factories making shirtwaists, a kind of women's blouse. The strike was led by Clara Lemlich and backed by the National Women's Trade Union League of America. It began in November 1909. The union settled with the factory owners in February 1910, the date this photo was taken, and resulted in better pay as well as better working conditions and hours. Just a year later, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took the lives 146 workers, 85 percent of them women, which showed the nation the dangerous conditions that immigrant women faced in the factories.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2002—'Chickenhawk' goes mainstream:
Terry Neal's latest piece in the Washington Post examines the whole "chickenhawk" debate, and how the term and the chickenhawk arguments are being aired in mainstream publications.
For months, liberal Web sites and blogs have been buzzing about "chickenhawks" in the Bush administration and among his supporters in Congress. The term, in this instance anyway, refers to hawkish politicians who push war but never actually served in one.
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Relegated to the fringes of the political debate for most of the year, this topic — fueled by escalating talk of war with Iraq — has picked up steam in recent weeks, with Newsweek, among others, examining the fissure within the GOP under the headline, "Hawks, Doves and Dubya."
The issue was not picked up by the mainstream press until some prominent GOP politicos began commenting on it.
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As Instapundit would say, advantage blogosphere.
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