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The Bowery Boys episode 311, uprising, the shirt waist strike of 1909.

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Hi there, welcome to The Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers.

The story of solidarity and workers rights from a very inspiring source, an uprising of young women and girls from the year 1909.

They call it the uprising of the 20,000, the shirt waist strike of 1909.

Right. And so to tell that story, we need to head down to the Lowery side in late November of 1909 to witness this dramatic event that would actually help transform

and improve the working conditions for thousands of New Yorkers who toiled in the city's huge garment industry.

Many of these were first generation Americans and most of them, like Greg just said, were women.

This is also the story of a 23 year old Ukrainian immigrant named Clara Lemwick, who found an unjust working world in New York when she immigrated here to this country.

And along with her colleagues and partners rallied other women to join in the fight for safer and fairer working conditions.

So this is really a story about immigration and also workers who were being taken advantage of.

But there's also a story here about other women, mostly middle class and upper class educated women who joined their cause and combined it in a really interesting way with their other big struggle, suffrage, the right to vote.

In fact, at the end of this show today, we're going to leave the studio and head up to the New York Historical Society to check out a new exhibit of theirs called Women March and speak with the curator Valerie Paley, the director of the Center of Women's History at the New York Historical Society.

So join us as we visit the factories and hit the streets for the short-wave strike of 1909, the uprising of the 20,000.

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