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The former railway car in Powys, Wales is known as “Under the Oak” and was used for many years for nothing more than storage. Fittingly, it now houses a collection of weird and wonderful objects that its owner Jim has collected on his travels around the world as a cameraman. Now that both the car and the owners have settled a little, the transformation from railway carriage to living space has been completed.
The car’s original ironwork has been used to make some of the fittings and the dark wood, also remaining from the original construction, gives a lovely rich feel. The car has a gas burner, a camping toaster and a BBQ, plus a firepit and log seats outdoors. The washing up sink, prep area, fridge and other gas ring are outside, undercover at the end of the car.
Under the Oak is tucked between two barns and screened by trees from Jim and Jude’s other project, Under the Ash, a converted showman’s car. Each has their own private compost toilet and share a hot gas-powered shower, which are about 10 yards from both spaces. Although they are quite close together and near the cottage, every effort has been taken to give them their own areas and Jim & Jude’s friends have been enjoying staying there for years.
You can rent it via @canopyandstars
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Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores and spend most of their days around water and ice – and not a great deal else. The polar bear does not mind living a semi-solitary life. Apart from actively seeking mating partners in the late spring and early summer, and raising cubs, adult polar bears tend to be antisocial. This is highlighted during the mating process. Males seek females by following their scent and, once they’ve found their mate, they are together for about a week before they separate.
Photograph © (Steven Kazlowski). #WWF #Wild #AT2G #Ndutu #Nature #Wildlife #Animals #Wildeyesa #Earthcapture #PolarBear #PolarBears
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On this day, 15 April 1916, the newspaper of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver, Colorado.
Much of the history of the group was lost, but fortunately a fascinating letter by Jane Street, its secretary, was illegally seized by the Justice Department in 1917 and only discovered nearly 60 years later.
She was writing to another domestic worker organiser in Tulsa, Oklahoma in which she described how they organised and took action to improve pay and conditions:
“if you want to raise a job from $20 to $30… you can have a dozen girls answer an ad and demand $30—even if they do not want work at all. Or call up the woman and tell her you will accept the position at $20. Then she will not run her ad the next day. Don’t go. Call up the next day and ask for $25 and promise to go (and don’t go). On the third day she will say, ‘Come on out and we will talk the matter over.’ You can get not only the wages, but shortened hours and lightened labor as well.”
More information in our podcast episode about women in the early IWW: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e16-women-in-the-early-iww/
Pictured: a march of women IWW members https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1401619306689882/?type=3
