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Sisters of Rail, Chapter 6: Boon — Insolently Casual Gait.

Chapter six directly continues its predecessor with intensely clever writing: a discourse so constructed as to build tension and drip-feed the secrets connivingly hidden underneath the previous two installments. A change of pace (again), and a change in the characterizations as the protagonists wise up to the reality of the new normal.

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Crash Snowdon StudioCrash Snowdon Chapter Page: Sisters of Rail (7)Sisters of Rail: Chapter Six: Boon - Insolently Casual Gait I was not surprised to hear that Lu Shenks had 'freaked out' at the situation.  It was paradoxically easy to picture the unthinkable scene.  A wagon lying dismembered, just short of a critical bridge support.  A valuable cargo of logs strewn about, delaying a critical delivery.  And worst of all, the steel rails bent all out of skew on their timbers.  A vital connection of civilisation, severed. Our town's reputation, ruined.
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Today in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.

The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

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Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of strikers. Several of the strikers are carrying American flags. By http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQlaw2.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131378
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Today in Labor History March 11, 1850: French anarchist Clément Duval was born. His theory of individual reclamation, which justified theft, and other crimes, as both educational and legitimate ways to redistribute the wealth, influenced the Illegalists of the 1910s, including Jules Bonnot, of the Bonnot Gang. According to Paul Albert, "The story of Clement Duval was lifted and, shorn of all politics, turned into the bestseller Papillon."

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Black and white sketch of Clément Duval, with a bushy mustache.
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