Cleaning out my filing cabinet - and in a file marked Pizzazz i found this on a sheet of paper: SONGS; "Bread and Roses" which reads: ** "In 1912 women mill-workers struck for higher pay (then $8.76 for a 56-hour week). Their plea was for "bread, but roses, too", and it became their marching song, put to music by James Oppenheimer. Incidentally, they didn't get a pay raise, but their hours were reduced from 56 to 54 hours per week!"
2nd verse reads: "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!
3rd verse: As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
at their ancient cry for bread.
Small art, and love, and beauty
their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread that we fight for
...but we fight for roses, too!
10 comments:
A director named Kenneth Loach did a movie called "Bread and Roses" in 2000, a modern day story about 2 sisters trying to help start a union. The first Loach film I saw was "Land and Freedom" from 1995, a good movie about the Spanish "Civil" War in the late 30's. I loved it, taped "Bread and Roses" specifically because of the plot several years ago but haven't "caught up with it" yet. If you happend to run across it, I'm sure the title is a reference to this song...
alan
hey alan,
nice to hear from you...so you survived the "near hurricane", eh?
yeah, i think i heard of that movie in 2000, starring Sissy Spacek? i think
i like the line " our life will not sweated from birth to death" and i think id like to see the movie bread and roses. Another intersting blog.
hi pj,
$8.76 in 1912 is more than minimum wage for people here now. wow! i'd love to see the movie also. beautiful blog!
how are things going in canada? has the weather temps evened out a little? that's very interesting how the weather has changed over the past 10 years in vancouver, isn't it? i guess because of the ozone, or something to that effect?
i do hope your summers there won't be so hot. it's possible because we've only had one mini-major snowstorm this winter. we're expected to have a little snow here in the morning--nothing that'll stick, but enough to hamper the early-morning rush-hour commute for folk.
i hope you're having a beautiful day. i'm just laying low today. went to see "failure to launch" yesterday with matthew mcconnaughey and sarah jessica parker, and "firewall" with harrison ford. they were both good.
have a good evening, and will chat later on.
sylvia
$8.76 per week, dearie!
a lot of the women's societies that serve women escaping violence use that "bread and roses" song too, that was the first time that I had heard that reference.
yep, weather changes could be the ozone, but i think it is just "as the world turns"; i think weather changes are all an inevitable part of nature...manufacturing and cars etc. just seem to be speeding it along.
i'm doing a big clean up and toss out, files, old school notes etc, and i keep coming across all this neat information from various instructors, and workshops...glad you enjoyed the blog...
i've been wanting to see "failure to Launch" and wondered if it would get good reviews...so now i know, thanks.
well, must to bed,
cheers,
pj
yeah, i like that line too, jumpinginpuddles!
It's been a long time(over a month maybe) for not coming to the net.
As I said before in my blog, I was preparing for an exam, and it will coming in 60 days after. I'm so nervous and worried...
I have some plans after the exam:
(1)I want to improve my english reading skill.
Have you ever heard a book named "The essential 55"? I want to start from it first.
see ya, and I'll show up again after 60 days. By the way, I not a mister.
hi pj,
color me red for embarrassed, and green for naive (no, not st. patrick's day, LOL)
sylvia
merci me, (heiress)child...*chuckle, chuckle*...and top of the mornin' to you too from this 1/4 Irish lass.
ope, jolly mercenary, my apologies...(what was i thinking!!!
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