The following announcement comes from the Rensselaer County Advertiser newspaper.
Poestenkill Historical Society
Kate Mullany National Historic Site:
National Significance of a Laundry Worker's Strike.
Tom Carroll returns as our guest speaker for our November Program. In early 1864, a nineteen-year old Irish immigrant named Kate Mullany organized the shirt collar laundry workers of Troy, New York, into the nation's first truly all-female labor union. Their weeklong strike yielded them a twenty-five percent raise and vaulted Mullany to national prominence. Today, the house that she bought for her family is a National Historic Site and the home of the American Labor Studies Center, which helps educate young Americans about the history of labor in the United States. This talk will tell that story. Please join us on Tuesday, November 28th, at 7:00 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room of the Town Hall on route 351. The program is free and everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be provided.
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