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Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a Polish-born American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent women labor union leaders.
As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and helped to pass the New York state referendum of 1917 that gave women the right to vote.
Schneiderman is credited with coining the phrase "Bread and Roses", to indicate a worker’s right to something higher than subsistence living. This was later used as the title of a poem and set to music.
As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and helped to pass the New York state referendum of 1917 that gave women the right to vote.
Schneiderman is credited with coining the phrase "Bread and Roses", to indicate a worker’s right to something higher than subsistence living. This was later used as the title of a poem and set to music.
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Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike
The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by one ...
Thanks Maj Marty Hogan for letting us know that April 6 is the anniversary of the birth of Polish-born American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent women labor union leaders Rose Schneiderman who held labor-related positions in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration during the Great Depression.
Rest in eternal peace Rose Schneiderman!
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"Rose Schneiderman was a labor activist, union leader and social reformer. She held labor-related positions in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration during the Great Depression.
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Rose Schneiderman was born on April 6, 1882, in Saven, Poland, and later immigrated to the United States. In 1903, she helped organize a New York City local of the United Cloth and Cap Makers, and loudly denounced those who had contributed to the 1911 Triangle Waist Factory fire. Schneiderman served as president of the Women's Trade Union League from 1926 to 1950. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration. She died in 1972.
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Labor activist, social reformer. Born Rachel Rose Schneiderman on April 6, 1882, in Saven, Poland. Rose Schneiderman spent much of her life fighting to improve the lives of American workers. Emigrating to the United States in 1892, she went to work in her early teens sewing caps. In 1903 Schneiderman helped organize a New York City local of the United Cloth and Cap Makers and took the lead in getting women elected to the union. The next year she was elected to the union's executive board, the highest position yet held by a woman in any American labor organization.
In 1905 Rose Schneiderman joined the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL), the national organization that led the fight to improve conditions of working women. She remained among the WTUL's most active leaders for 45 years, serving as president from 1926 to 1950. She took a major role in several of the landmark events of the American labor struggle. In 1909 she called for the strike of women waistmakers, and that same year she took a role in organizing the garment workers, and denounced all those who had contributed to the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911.
In addition to these and many other actions with the WTUL, Rose Schneiderman worked for women's right to vote and helped organize the International Congress of Labor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her—the only woman—to the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Act in 1933. Schneiderman was also secretary of the New York State Department of Labor from 1937 to 1943. She lectured widely before diverse audiences and served on various boards, ending her long life as one of the most respected spokespersons and activists for improving the conditions of working people. Schneiderman died in 1972."
Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike
The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by one mill owner's decision to lower wages when a new law shortening the workweek went into effect in January, the strike spread rapidly through the town, growing to more than twenty thousand workers at nearly every mill within a week. The strike, which lasted more than two months and which defied the assumptions of conservative trade unions within the American Federation of Labor that immigrant, largely female and ethnically divided workers could not be organized, was successful; within a year, however, the union had largely collapsed and most of the gains achieved by the workers were lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKnqhGpc8M
FYI Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown 1stSgt Eugene Harless MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SGT (Join to see) SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SP5 Robert Ruck SP5 Dave (Shotgun) Shockley SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright CPL Craig Cheltenham
Rest in eternal peace Rose Schneiderman!
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"Rose Schneiderman was a labor activist, union leader and social reformer. She held labor-related positions in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration during the Great Depression.
Synopsis
Rose Schneiderman was born on April 6, 1882, in Saven, Poland, and later immigrated to the United States. In 1903, she helped organize a New York City local of the United Cloth and Cap Makers, and loudly denounced those who had contributed to the 1911 Triangle Waist Factory fire. Schneiderman served as president of the Women's Trade Union League from 1926 to 1950. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration. She died in 1972.
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Labor activist, social reformer. Born Rachel Rose Schneiderman on April 6, 1882, in Saven, Poland. Rose Schneiderman spent much of her life fighting to improve the lives of American workers. Emigrating to the United States in 1892, she went to work in her early teens sewing caps. In 1903 Schneiderman helped organize a New York City local of the United Cloth and Cap Makers and took the lead in getting women elected to the union. The next year she was elected to the union's executive board, the highest position yet held by a woman in any American labor organization.
In 1905 Rose Schneiderman joined the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL), the national organization that led the fight to improve conditions of working women. She remained among the WTUL's most active leaders for 45 years, serving as president from 1926 to 1950. She took a major role in several of the landmark events of the American labor struggle. In 1909 she called for the strike of women waistmakers, and that same year she took a role in organizing the garment workers, and denounced all those who had contributed to the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911.
In addition to these and many other actions with the WTUL, Rose Schneiderman worked for women's right to vote and helped organize the International Congress of Labor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her—the only woman—to the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Act in 1933. Schneiderman was also secretary of the New York State Department of Labor from 1937 to 1943. She lectured widely before diverse audiences and served on various boards, ending her long life as one of the most respected spokespersons and activists for improving the conditions of working people. Schneiderman died in 1972."
Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike
The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by one mill owner's decision to lower wages when a new law shortening the workweek went into effect in January, the strike spread rapidly through the town, growing to more than twenty thousand workers at nearly every mill within a week. The strike, which lasted more than two months and which defied the assumptions of conservative trade unions within the American Federation of Labor that immigrant, largely female and ethnically divided workers could not be organized, was successful; within a year, however, the union had largely collapsed and most of the gains achieved by the workers were lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKnqhGpc8M
FYI Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown 1stSgt Eugene Harless MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SGT (Join to see) SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SP5 Robert Ruck SP5 Dave (Shotgun) Shockley SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright CPL Craig Cheltenham
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Maj Marty Hogan The poem is attributed to James Oppenheim (1911). Here is one Internet source:
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses!
As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.
As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; bread and roses, bread and roses.
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses!
As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.
As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; bread and roses, bread and roses.
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