By David Lee McMullen
"Very little has been written concerning the history of pre-World warfare II hard work leaders, in particular of working-class girls. This ebook fills within the gaps by way of tracing the background of Ellen Dawson via Scotland, England, and the U.S.. someone attracted to exertions background or women's heritage will locate this publication of serious use."--Daniel Lee Georgianna, collage of Massachusetts, Dartmouth "Paints a bright portrait of the folk, areas, and occasions that formed Dawson and that she, in flip, formed. deals fascinating comparisons and contrasts among the exertions struggles of an ethnically assorted workforce within the northeast and people of a mostly homogenous white operating type south."--Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra college. this can be the 1st biography of Ellen Dawson (1900-1967), a Scottish girl who participated in 3 of the biggest and so much dramatic cloth moves in U.S. history--Passaic, New Jersey; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Gastonia, North Carolina. She helped arrange the nationwide fabric employees Union and have become the 1st lady elected to a countrywide management place in an American fabric union. She spent her early life within the Glasgow quarter as a tender employee in the course of Scotland's so much radical interval of work heritage. together with her kinfolk she moved first to England after which to the U.S. looking for financial survival. As a fabric employee in Passaic, she turned a pace-setter within the communist-inspired strike of 1926. Later a exertions activist operating with either the yankee Federation of work and the Communist celebration, she traveled to the Soviet Union and used to be elected to the administrative committee of the yank Communist occasion. David McMullen investigates Dawson's history and the occasions surrounding her lifestyles, in addition to the occasions she participated in to appreciate why she grew to become a number one hard work activist. This amazing biography offers an unmatched viewpoint of early American communists throughout the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties, person who ignores the distortions so typically utilized throughout the chilly warfare.
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Two of her children were born in the poorhouse, and her son, Andrew, died in the poorhouse at the age of three. During this period she survived influenza and more than once abandoned her children to the charity of others. 20 As for Annie Halford, there is no record that she ever took public assistance, or needed to take legal action against her lover. Annie married Patrick Dawson on May 5, 1893. The ceremony was held in St. John’s Chapel, Barrhead’s only Roman Catholic church, and performed by B.
During the day, “football, cricket, swings, and donkey races were indulged in, whilst many of the grown-ups tripped it gaily on the grass to the splendid music of the band. ”13 There were many similar events recorded by the Scottish Co-operator, in- 26 · Strike! The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson cluding “A cinematograph [an early silent picture show] and gramophone entertainment . . crowded with little ones. ” These events, at least in the minds of the leaders of the local cooperative society, had a purpose greater than just entertainment.
31 It is clear that the social safety-net of 1900 was virtually non-existent. Of the services that were 18 · Strike! The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson provided, a significant number were of a punitive or warehousing nature— such as prisons, poorhouses, reformatories, asylums, nursing homes, and orphanages. What little protection most workers had against the uncertainties of life came from their own meager wages. A priority for most working-class families was burial insurance, because death was an ever-present reality.