Men, their rights, and nothing more;
women, their rights,
and nothing less.
-Susan B. Anthony
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Hellraisers Journal Sunday September 24, 1916
American Socialist: Ryan Walker on the Right to Vote
Tag: Bread and Roses
Hellraisers Journal: From Solidarity: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on “Problems Organizing Women,” Part II
No matter what your fight, don’t be ladylike!
God Almighty made women and
the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday July 22, 1916
From Solidarity: Women Can Fight, Says Miss Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World who recently arrived in northern Minnesota to assist with the strike of the iron miners of the Mesabi Range, on July 15th had published in that organization’s weekly journal, Solidarity, an article on the problems of organizing women. Miss Flynn encourages working women to rebel against the limits enforced against them by the prevailing attitudes which dictate that women should be “lady-like” and stick to tending home and children. Yesterday Hellraisers Journal offered part one of the article; today we conclude with part two.
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Hellraisers Journal: May Wood Simons on the Life of the London Shop Girl, “Living In”
You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday July 11, 1906
From the International Socialist Review – The London Shop Girl’s Life
“Living In.”
TO BE sure we all ‘live in.’ Do not the American girls?” was the remark made by a young woman in one of the large stores in the center of London, when I asked her as to the life of English shop girls. Further conversation with London shop “assistants” many of whom had spent several years in that position brought out a series of facts concerning the life of this class that is utterly different from anything in the American mercantile industry. Though much may be said concerning the need of the American shop girl, for seats, short hours, etc., the English assistants, besides having all these to secure has yet other troubles which are peculiarly their own. However long the hours or annoying the “floor-walker” may be to the American girl, when business closes at night she is at last free to seek her own home or to visit her acquaintances, as she may desire. Not so with the English assistant; her eating, drinking, and sleeping, equally with her work are under the close supervision of the employer.
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