Today is the day of the working woman. From Criminal discovered we recall that led to the celebration of this day. MARCH 8, 1908
scorched 129 women died in the Cotton Factory Sirtwood of New York, all seamstresses employed workers of the factory. One day this like today, 129 factory workers, supported a strike that had mobilized more than forty thousand seamstresses Manhattan in a totally peaceful. They demanded equal pay with men, improved hygienic conditions of the factory, reduced working hours just a 'ten hours' and time for breastfeeding. So I decided embodiments a 'stop' in their working hours so that your boss listen.
However, the owner of the factory not only ignored their employees if they ordered to close all the doors of the factory so that they remained trapped and later set fire to the facility. 129 were burned to death inside the factory. Candente signal, labor exploitation to which women had undergone, which remained as a symbol latent patentepara a necessary struggle reminder for this reason it was decided to that date each year to commemorate the struggles of workers worldwide. In 1910, during the Second International Conference of Women Workers, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, the German Communist leaders and Kate Dumke Clara Zetkin, proposed to be declared on 8 March as International Women's Day, in honor the 129 seamstresses Sirtwood killed in the Cotton Factory, and it was not until 1977 that the United Nations Day as official said.
The Color Purple Ribbon
The bond currently use lilac, to show support for working women Day and everything it represents, has its origin in the color of the fabrics that concocted the day workers who were killed. The canvases were lilac.
The Tribute
Tribute to working women who fought for their rights, our rights.
Women who died for ideals that today allow us to be where we are. Women
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simply believe in a just world and fought to see their goals accomplished.
Tribute to the women's struggle for equal rights in the workplace and society.
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