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Shirtwaist Strike 1909
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/shirtwaist-strike-1909-10/General Strike 1910
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/general-strike-of-1910/#labormovement #organize #garmentworkers #solidarity #unions
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The trailblazing woman who spearheaded New Deal
Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, was labor secretary under FDR
Joe Biden has been asked to designate a #national #monument to the former US labor secretary, #Frances #Perkins,
by members of Congress and groups including the National Park Conservation Association.Perkins, who served three terms under Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945,
was the first woman to be appointed to a presidential cabinet
and the longest-serving secretary of labor in US history.In 1911, Perkins was a witness to the #Triangle #Shirtwaist #factory #fire in New York City,
which killed 146 people, mostly young women,
and was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in US history.
🔸The tragedy greatly affected Perkins and helped inspire her labor activism in the subsequent decades.She said of her position:
“I came to Washington to work for God, FDR and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.”As secretary of labor, Perkins was one of the driving forces behind Roosevelt’s New Deal policies
and pushed for many longstanding labor policies
including a 40-hour work week,
a federal minimum wage,
unemployment compensation,
worker’s compensation,
the abolition of child labor,
and social security.“The New Deal began on March 25, 1911. The day that the Triangle factory burned,” Perkins said.
The Frances Perkins Center in Newcastle, Maine,
has offered to donate a portion of the 57-acre farm where Perkins spent much of her life from childhood to adulthood
to the National Park Service.