Today is born out of yesterday. Theres no burden without pain. Spring 1901. 16 years old. Coming to america with five words of english. My name is deana. Impossible language. Ill never learn it. My name is deana. My name is deana. In the old country, i worked like an animal. Even before my children were born, the mark was on them. Animal. Before god, i swear my children will not live adds i have lived. Freedom doesnt doesnt come down like the summer rain freedom, freedom is a hard one thing youve got to work for it fight for it day and night for it and every generation got to win again pass it on to your children pass it on to your children, brother youve got to work for it fight for it day and night for it pass it on to your children arrive on schedule for examination and present themselves and their documents. Matching the letter on your tag. Name . Place of birth . How much money you got . No understand. Money . Denro. 5,05,000 to process today. Lets keep it moving. Keep an eye out for t. B. Were getting a lot of it lately. Name . Spell it. Skip it. Well make it simpson. Please, god, let nothing go wrong. Let them not notice the babys runny nose. Let them take us into america. Why do you keep asking me what its going to be like. I told you a thousand times. The streets are paved with gold and the houses are yeah. Yeah. Gold in america. Learn, study, pay attention. Keep your eyes open, you hear . This is golden america where millionaires grow on trees like little apples. Is this a country . Vanderbilt has seven houses on fifth avenue in case they need a little fresh air, a home in new port and a 60room shack in north carolina. I read in the paper to take care of the grounds, they spend more than the whole department of agriculture. Let it be a lesson, save your money official new york city Housing Survey 1905. Darkness and dampness and dirt. Dirt and discomfort and disease. Diphtheria and death. Mulberry street 17 of us in four rooms. Bianca and the kids stay in the parlor. If i get a boyfriend, where can we go to hold hands . Into the park with thehands . To the park with the pigeons. There are certain rules of etiquette one does not question. A lady does not show her ankle or raise her voice. If unmarried, a girl must be accompanied by a chaperone. Female relative is considered quite satisfactory. And naturally the best and safest thing do is to stay at home and help mother about the house. Tdo is to stay at home and help mother about the house. Odo is to stay at home and help mother about the house. Do is to stay at home and help mother about the house. 12 hours a day, mama makes 0 cents, i make a dime. Louie makes a nickle. Laying down track for the westbound train, stacking up timber in the state of maine, digging out coal in the West Virginia home, hammering steel in the pittsburgh mills. Immigrants from us a tree he and a italy, immigrants on the baltic sea, green eye slovak, irish men and english men from leads. Six day a week and 12 hour day and it is welcome boys to the usa. Dollar are a day for a factory hand and it is welcome ladies to the Promised Land. Immigrants and sons of immigrant you can putting down roots, hanging on. Stubborn as the tree that pushes its way up through the rock. Can hanging on. Stubborn as the tree that pushes its way up through the rock. Acrobats and clowns, rascals and lover, builders and dreamer, leaving their signature on the cities. From budapest to county court, finding no miracles, they made their own. A miracle of friendship. Miracle of laughter. Miracle of the generations. The miracle of learning. You want to be the president . George washington, Thomas Jefferson what he will did you learn . Daniel webster, quote, justice is the great interest of man on approach. From your mouth to gods ears. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation i indie adviceable, will liberty and justice for all. Of a dream and half nightmare. When i die, dont beayeea oig on, so i can keep on working with in the Promised Land. Got the blues, got the blues, the whisper cotton mill blues n the Promised Land. Got the blues, got the blues, the whisper cotton mill blues got gto work like hell 2 million children in the mills and mines. 6 million grownups unemployed. Why hire a man for a dollar when you can hire a kid for a dime. I was taught in my youth that it was the height of vulgarity to discuss money. A professor in chicago came up with a few statistics. An American Family cannot adequately survive on less than 900 a year. The average working man earns about 400. When the Union Inspiration through the work is blood shall run, there can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun but what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, for the union make us strong solidarity people ever, solidarity people ever work is of new york keep alive a tradition since before washington was presented. Carrying on the heritage of the boston carpenters who fought for the ten hour day while missouri was still indian territory. Union men be strong side by side well battle on, victory will come. Rights will be protected and cared for not by the laborage at a timer but by the christian mentor whom god has given control of the property interests of this country. Freedom doesnt come like a bird on the wing, doesnt come down like the summer rain freedom, freedom is a hard one thing youve got to work for it, fight for it day and night for it and every generation got to win it again pass it on to your children, mother, pass it on to your children, brother came to chicago green off the boat. 1910. Got myself a job at a Mens Clothing shop. Sitting at the machine shaking in your boots scared of being fired. But talking, sneezing, looking at the foreman cross democratey. Get up before dawn, come home in the dark, the childrens faces you dont look on except when they are sleeping. And then the slack season turning out more and more and administer for the same like all of a sutd the foreman announces that they can cutting the piece rates of seaming pants. You got a wife and kids to support, you keep your mouth shut. Lucy, you going to sit there and take it . Not me, im not taking it. Im walking out. Sure all right for them, but i got kids to feed. They warned us, walk out and you are blacklisted, finished in chicago. Why doesnt the union do something. They are just for the a ris he 2r toe krats. What am i doing here taking over their work. I ought to be out there with them. What do we do . I dont know what youre going to do. I know what im going to do. Out. Im walking out. Did you hear the latest . Six more shops. 18,000. 35,000. You hear . 40,000. Heard a rumor the union is looking to make deal under the table and sell us down the river. Never done them harm that i can see, they may throw me in the can, they go wild, simpgt l wild over me broken heads and empty stomach, four months out in the freezing street. Four months standing together, standing solid. I see charlie out there walking in the line. Out comes the foreman, gives him a punch and yells go home, troublemaker. So charlie says i got my rights. Rights they gave him. A bullet in the head they gave him. How did you do, sir. Im a social worker, i wonder, how long it has been since you saw your own eyes the conditions under which these people work for you. Are so i went down to my factory and i looked and i wasnt surprised they were on strike. I was only surprised they waited so long. He wouldnt arbitrate agreements and wage demands. What does hillman say . All we want is to be treated as human beings, not machines. Arbitration is the first step. All right, so they got arbitration. They got a little security. Still leaves the rest of us right back where we started. You think this is the end . Take it from me, this is only the beginning. Something in the wind blowing east in chicago. The restless murmur running through. Something being born. A beginning. A hope. New york 1912, part of the Mens Clothing market. 60,000 vest maker, pressers and pants maker, tailors slapped in jail by the police. Bailed out by a tough little labor lawyer named laguardia. 53 hour week. Big present they gave us, ice in the winter. Whatever you get, you have to fight for it. If im wrong, if my information is mistaken, please correct me which i will appreciate. Thank you. Something in the wind, something struggling to be born. Baltimore, strike and sellout. Rochester, sellout and heartbreak. The union is having a convention. Nashville, tennessee. Why nashville . Locals in new york, chicago, baltimore. Thats the reason. Wecomplaints so making it tougher to get out there. So why nash victim . Why not alaska . Beg, borrow, scrape the money together for train fare. O. All out for nashville. We were on strike, we couldnt eat, so how can we pay so . You have to have the right to speak. Baltimore is still out on strike. Delegate from chicago is out of order. Chicago walked out of the convention. Yeah, and new york and baltimore. Boston and philadelphia, cincinnati. 75 of the membership walked out. Holding their own convention. Were setting up our own union. It will be afternoon on outl. You are out of your minds,ing it a wild gamble. In the year 1914, they gathered at webster hall and took the gamble. Wild gamble. In the year 1914, they gathered at webster hall and took the gamble. It was our dream to give security to our member, security within the framework of liberty, lincoln said a nation cannot exist half slave and half free, neither can a man. We cannot exist free politically, but slaves industrially. Dear brother, we just formed an organizing committee for the amalgamated clothing workers out here in milwaukee. Starting with nothing, with empty pockets and a barrel of hope. Organizing new york and chicago. Wisconsin and new jersey. Baltimore and boston. Kentucky missouri, ohio, montreal, toronto, pennsylvania. Dear brother, maybe you can come to our assistance. We had a little strike down here in philadelphia. Our business agent got thrown in jail. I havent got to buy postage stamps much less pay the fine. Worse comes to worse, dont worry, ill okay my overcoat. Im a boss, so dont outme, the union is the best thing that ever happened in this industry. We got arbitration, we can come together like human beings, set standards, set rates, in a civilized manner, you know what i mean . Since we went union, we never had a strike. January 1, 1915, special to mcclures magazine. Midway through the wilson stwrair administration, there are indications that the nation is seeing the beginnings of a new freedom. A weakening of monopolies by the corrupt passages act, clayton antitrust act, workmans compensation, child labor laws. Immigrant and sons of imglan factory workers. Ill bring you a hun and kaiser too and that is about all one fella can do i may not know what the war is about, but i bet by gosh ill soon find out ohigh darling, dont you father, ill bring you a gun for a souvenir u. S. Army, dead and missing, 130,500. Wu wounds, 234,300. U. S. Steele, plot profits 2 b. Depression and arising hysteria. In a single year, 61 murders by lynching. Revolution in russia touching off panic at home. Victims of the palmer raids, their houses ransacked without search warrants. 3,000 foreign born arrested, denied lawyer, held without charges for three months. In pittsburgh and gary, indiana it was a 12 hour day, take it or leave it. And you better take it if you know whats good for you. Tell me what is a vigilante man, what is a vigilante man, does he carry a claw and gun in his hand, would he beat your brother and sister down noets. A mmalgamated closed for relf of the steel strikers. We know this is one the only beginning of the attacks against american labor. 1920. In six 140short year, we bui ourselves one of the strongest gro unions in the country. In new york, a 40 hour week and working machinery allowed arbitration. The employer decided it is time to come up with a plan to set back the clock, bring back the sweat shop. And when we turned them down lockout. They got it all figured. Shut down the machines, lock the door, get a Court Injunction against picketing, starve us out. Judge is getting ready to read the decision. Get thrown in the clink. And the Supreme Court of the state of new york is now in session. Honorable judge vehicstrickland presiding. Injunction granted. Employers may succeed in getting injunctions, but nothing else. As long as they can think that at the can ship customers instead of pen, let them go ahead. Hang on. If we crack, it means the end of the union. The open shop again, seven day week and 12 hour day. Everything that is rotten, everything that is immune. Your Organization Must ask great sacrifices. We ask you to walk instead of spending a nickle car fare. Your lives depend on it. Your future rkz t, the future o children. We will take care that there is not a single house without bread. We wont give you meat, but your brothers and sisters in chicago, rochester and baltimore wont let you starve. With the sweat shop at the age of 11, somehow i her got time to go to far vro far swrau. So at the age of 47, im in college, American History, public speaking, labor history. Even art classes. We volunteered to go there and arrange entertainment. I dont believe the world has such children anywhere as the east side children. They took our modest program and transformed it with their magic. I sat there thinking, oh, what if the businesses of society were making children like this instead of profits. If we hung on, hung on for six more months, and we won. We did it. We did it. We hung on and we won. The 20s, ticket in every pot and tinning lizy in every garage. Cancel the child labor laws. In the white house the other day, work the job and coolidge says noe and Patrick Henry made a famous speech when he said never see your black bottom all that counts is fodidodo. Believe me, for the clothing markets, seasonal business, layoffs, unemployment, behind with the rent, payments with the radio, going to the bank for a loan and they ask you for security. If i had security, i wouldnt be there in the first place. My hands are my security. As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men, for they are womens 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 roasts. The amalgamated pioneering slum clearance, putting up the first cooperative low rent houses, a bank where the working man can get security on his labor, setting up the only unshins progru Insurance Program in the nation and that was also the 20s. Boirys, the sky is the limit. U. S. Steele, 313. What is wrong with the market . U. S. Steele 300, 152, u. S. Steele 60. Who cares if the sky appears to fall in the sea, who cares what as long as you kiss the congers President Trump hoover should report today that the fundamental business of the country is on a sound and ploss perrous basis. Secretary of the treasury announced that i can guarantee there is nothing in the situation to be concerned about much its a mighty hard road that these poor hands of old, my poor feet have traveled a hard dusty road at the i think edge of your c you will see us and then we come with the dust and were gone with the wind unemployed, tired of being hungry. Chased us out of the capitol. Let me tell you, mister, we aint taking it no mar. There will be some changes made. California to nominate a president. California, 34 votes for roosevelt. There is a mysterious cycle, to some generation much is given. To other generations much is expected. This generation of americans has a road with destiny. The new deal beginning to role, a Running River of social legislation. The ccc and wpa bringing jobs to 9 million unemployed. Fair labor standards law setting minimum wages and maximum hours. Child labor laws passed again. The tba bringing light to the dark valleys. The Social Security act partially inspired by the a hal ga mated pattern, providing unemployment and old age insurance. The wagner Labor Relations act, employees shall have the right to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. Continue to express yourselves. Politicians will vote no bills in congress. Unless you make your rights known. Unless you organize. They want organization, they want participation, they want protection, they want employment. And they are going to have those things through the leadership and the instrumentality of this new labor movement. You said of a thousand unions, the cio meant one big union for every major industry. Organize the unorganized. Pedal letters and furnace men in the steel mills, deck hands aboard the ships, lead miners, copper miner, ribber worker, electrical workers, amalgamated organizing cotton garment workers in pennsylvania, nuk and the prayerity states. Retail clerks, employing the money to organize a textile workers union. You know you are underpaid but the bhoss says you aint. You may be down and ought, out but you can talk it over. Which side are you on, which side are you no im a miners son and i stick with the union until this old fight is won noed whi fight is won which side are you on, which side are you on we have been down here for five days. What do you say, boys . [ cheers this land is your land, this land is my land, from california to the new york islands, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters, this land was made for you and me as i went walking that river and highway, i saw above me that endless skyway i saw below me that Golden Valley this land was made for you and me this land is your land, this land is my land, from california to the rnew york islands, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters memorial day, 1937. [ gunfire ] 600 arrested. 60 sent to the hospital. 30 bleeding from gun thought wounds including one woman and three children. Ten dead. Shot in the back. Flint, michigan 1937. When it came to a union man, sit down, sit down. They will take him back, sits do sit down, sit down, set down the economy, sit down, sit down when you want thes about to co boss to come across, sit down, sit done sit down, sit down we sat fo. And victory, collective bargaining bringing order out of chaos. Steel organized, auto organized, textile organized, rubber, oil, copper, merchant marine, glass workers, leather workers, woodworkers. This land is your land, this land is my land, from california to the new york islands noets. 5 million americans organized, cio. This land was made for you and me noe me 1938. You better chase all your cares away, come on, get ready for the judgment day, the sun is shining, come to get happy, the lord is waiting to take your hand, were going to the Promised Land it is also peaceful on the other side, for get your frus s troubles and chase your cares away, shout hallelujah and get ready for the judgment day germany claimed that they were fabrications by a jewish conspiracy. Poland, 1939, poland. Denmark. Norway. Poland. Belgium. Luxembourg. France. Yugoslavia. Greece. Department december 7, 1941. Pearl harbor. A present from tokyo. In the african hits on the bleak islands of the pacific, we got the message in the days where the United States could sit behind oceans were ended forever. The message written in fire that from now on, for better or for worse, it was one world. The battle line ran from the philippines to see withs with stall pittsburgh and norfolk and san francisco. And yet in the midst of war in the 1942 elections, only a third of americas 80 million eligible voters went to the polls. Frank will nlin roosevelt, to s hillman. I can think of nothing more important than the continuing political education of the people who do the jobs of this land. It is our duty now to begin delay the plans and determine the strategy for winning a lasting peace of the establishment of an American Standard of living higher than ever known before. The man dies. But the dream endures. We have accepted so to speak the second bill of rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of race or station or creed. The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation. The right to adequate protection from economic fears of old age and sickness and accident and unemployment. Finally, the right to a good education. All of these rights fell secure. The clock sticks away the hours, the days vanish like wild birds. The sky announces a new season. Pinned on the drawing board are plans for pianos and violets. Lightning flashings among the constellations and yet the human spark burns on. Thunder rolls above the clouds and yet the small persistent voice of man prevails. At the age of 83, i look back to see the changes that have taken place. Er remembi remember when mr. Hi arrived from chicago, i said to a friend of mine, he looks like a young fella, but i would take my hat off to himr i remember w arrived from chicago, i said to a friend of mine, he looks like a young fella, but i would take my hat off to him i remember wh arrived from chicago, i said to a friend of mine, he looks like a young fella, but i would take my hat off to himi remember whe arrived from chicago, i said to a friend of mine, he looks like a young fella, but i would take my hat off to him if he can take these wolves and make them see the light and create a business where individuals could make a livelihood and do away with that slavery that existed all through the years. I can go back to a time with my pop, may he rest in peace, we worked together and he broke me in and we used to work next to each other and he was a district man. And when he have out a day, there was no pay. And when he had no pay, there was no food in the house. We always ate from the clothing line. At that time a boss was able to walk over to the machine, tear off the cotton and kick you out and that was it. When things got slow, thes about used to go around and cut prices and we used to work cheaper. You had no standard of conditions or standard of garments or of labor. It was a dog eat dog. Benefits, weed h had no none. I can move to any union shop in the country, new york, ohio, keep my medical care, keep my pension. Whoever thought this trade would have three weeks vacation. Whoever thought that we would have legal holidays. Whoever thought that wed see a business agent walk into a shop and say you cant fire this man because he is old or sick. You have to keep him. Those things you didnt see years ago. And whoever thought that in this trade when a man reached 65, he could retire because never did we think that wed see it in this trade, a man used to wait until he would drop by the machine and then he had to hope his family would support him. I can remember when a man got sick, he was broke. Today weve got the union hospitalization, psychiatric, right down the line. Today i come into a shop and i look around and i see the younger people, girls and boys, and irs say these people know wt we fought for, do they know how hard it was to get the conditions that weve got. Do we know what a union actually means. Do we know what they have to question through to keep the conditions that they have, do they know that they must sacrifice to keep the conditions. They call each other brothers and sisters at a union meeting, do they know that it means sacrifice . If i had a hammer id hammer in the morning, id hammer in the evening all over this land id hammer out danger and warning biggest thing in the south through our union is dig nits the city, which is the thing that is most important to them down there is dignity, the right to stand up and grieve. The right to know that they can take a stand. Went to a town that is antiunion, we try to make contact as quiet as possible. Many timesrerefused in hotels and motels. Our phone calls are monitored. Myself in front of a plant in a southern community, and city officials, police and sheriff groups k45is us awchase us awayy from a car, told that you ever come back here again, well kill you. Many times a worker will say im for you, ill vote for you, ill sign a union card, but dont park your car close to our house because boss will know and i may get fired tomorrow. It takes a lot of courage for the worker to sign a union card. But the workers have got courage. A lot of them have. If i had a hammer, id hammer in the morning, id hammer in the eveningall over this land id hammer out freedom, id hammer out my brothers and sisters all over this land hes not ready for it. How can i give him something hes not ready for . But i am ready. Ive been ready. But maybe you dont recognize it. Im not a child, im grown. I have children. And im worried about them like you are worerrying about your. You have to work for it, fight for it, day and night for it, and every generation got to win it again sometimes i get thinking if only i could protect her from all the troubles in this world, discrimination, poverty, war. But the best i can do is let her learn to be strong to stand up and fight for a decent life. That is her inheritance. The seed is planted and the 150ed flo seed flowers. The roots take hold. The stubborn tree forces its way through the rock. Immigrants and sons of immigrants handing down their inheritance. Creating out of their dreams and their anguish and their songs the face of america. Freedom doesnt come like a bird on the wing, doesnt come down like the summer rain freedom, hard one thing, you have to work for it, fight for it, day and night for it and every generation got to win it again fight for it, day and night f you think this is the end . Take it from me, this is only the beginning. 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