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“A great dragon, who fell from the stars. A hydra, whose storms swallowed both men and gods alike. He’s not part of our natural order, and he’s not meant to be here.”
“A false king.”
Seems legit to me.
On this day, 26 May 1824, the first recorded factory strike in US history took place when 102 women and girls working at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket picketed their factory.
Two days prior, the mill owners in the town had decided to increase working hours by one hour a day for everyone with no additional pay, and cut the pay of power-loom weavers by 25%. The weavers affected were all women and girls aged 15 to 30, whom were previously being paid “extravagant wages for young women,” according to the employers.
What the owners did not expect something which had not happened before in the infant textile industry, or indeed any factory in the country: the women organised themselves and went on strike. They were joined by other workers and members of the local community, who blockaded the mills, protested and hurled rocks at the mansions of the owners. One prominent local politician, George F. Jenkes wrote in his journal during the dispute: “I have just returned from one of the moste gloomy assemblage of people I have ever witnessed, from the street form the Pawtucket Bank across the bridge to Josiah Mill’s shop is literally filled with Men Women and Children — making a mob of very daring aspect, insulting the managers of cotton mills in every shape — pulling and hauling — screaming and shouting thro the streets.”
On the final day of the week-long strike, one of the mills was set ablaze. The day after the fire, the mill owners moved to negotiate with the workers, and they reached a compromise.
In the wake of the dispute, other groups of workers began organising themselves, and other strikes would break out across the New England textile industry in the coming years.
Learn more about this dispute in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/08/12/e28-the-pawtucket-mill-strike/
Pictured: painting of the strike by Christine Ashley https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1434728610045618/?type=3
THEY LIVE (1988)
Underrated Horror Recommendations
Often written off as ‘80s cheese, John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE (1988) is a cautionary tale that’s becoming more relevant with each passing year. The central theme of a working class being controlled by the wealthy and powerful sounds uncomfortably familiar nowadays and I think there’s a lot that we as a society can learn from it. Plus it’s just an awesome movie with fun dialogue and a wonderful performance by the late, great Rowdy Roddy Piper. People seem to finally be coming around on this one, but if you’ve never given it a shot you should because there’s no other film like it.
So the FDA is letting companies change the ingredients in foods without listing the changes on the labeling.
As an American with an allergy to a commonly used food group, this fucks with my health directly.
Considering the millions of people in America with food allergies of various kinds, this will probably kill people.
Supposedly it only applies if the “ingredient being substituted for the labeled ingredient does not cause any adverse health effect (including food allergens, gluten, sulfites, or other foods known to cause sensitivities in some people, for example, glutamates);” but it also implies a likely shortage of testing capacity, so if it’s under 2% change companies just pinkie promise they didn’t replace smth for smth more dangerous but cheaper.
