What doth life?
"Life comes to miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives." --Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/484951.Mary_Harris_Jones
I was thinking about the labor rights movement today. The US President signed an executive order require that 2 Federal regulations be removed for every regulation that is enacted. Folly!
“I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!”
“They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore.”
"In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"



