Good for Teddy Roosevelt. Where are the Teddy's when you need them? As for the two sociology students the more things change the more they stay the same. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Joyce052@aol.com> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 10:20 PM Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Roosevelt,Weeks,Auerbach > Wednesday April 9 ,2008TroyRecord Article100yearsagoThursday April 9, > 1908 > “President Theodore Roosevelt send ‘one of the shortest messages which he > has yet submitted to Congress” , invoking executive authority, the > president > has ordered the Postmaster General to deny an anarchist publication, LA > Questione Sociale, access to the US Mails. He now wants Congress to make > the > publication of anarchist opinions a federal crime. > The Record reports that two young woman who recently held jobs at a Troy > collar factory were actually sociology students from New York City > investigating > working conditions. The students, Mabel Weeks and Eva Auerbach, recounted > their adventure in an interview with the NY Evening Telegram. Auerbach > worked a > 10 hour shift on a stitching machine while Weeks became the target of > sexual > harassment(then unnamed). Weeks remembers a factory superintendent > telling > her:"I like your looks and I think we can make a forewoman out of you in > a few > days.”. Her training became an excuse for daily visits during which he > became so annoying that Miss Weeks decided she could no longer endure it > and quit > her job, along with Auerbach, after one week. Their impression of Troy > factory girls? Auberbach says they impressed her as being shiftless. They > get along > with as little work as they can. They are forever talking of > mashes(flirting) and theater.” > > PS if you click on the below link it will take you to the Troy Record > newspaper website. From there at the top click on Opinions then click on > This Day > in the Record and it will give you about a current weeks worth of This > day > in > History. > > _http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily_ > (http://www.troyrecord.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily) ?_ > > > > > > > > > **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on > family > favorites at AOL Food. > (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message