Of interest to your members? A strike 134 years ago.
The Match Girls' Striking Union 1888 written & sung by Charlotte Rock Peters
"The Match Girls' Striking Union 1888 written & sung by Charlotte Rock Peters"
The Match Girls Striking Union
(1888)
Young lasses bald at fifteen year
A life no lass should bear
They lost their youth in poverty
Low wages and lost hair
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Low wages and lost hair
Low wages and lost hair
They lost their youth in poverty
Low wages and lost hair
Their older sisters bore the weight
In phosphorous were steeped
Where ‘phossy jaw’ would suppurate
Through Bryant’s long deceit
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As Annie Besant drew them in
A Union was made
The Match Girls and the Sally Ann
Cleaned up the rotten trade
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They struck to strike a bargain there
To stop their leader’s sack
And forced the owner to be fair
Before they’d take him back
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With some to strike a bargain when
With some to re-employ
The Sally Army set up then
Red Phos does not destroy
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They upped conditions for each lass
In work and health and wage
Removing them from yellow phos
Made Bryant disengage
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So when you strike your matches now
Those lasses were the first
To strike a Union light and vow
Let owners do their worst
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We won’t be bound in poverty
Nor die before our time
This flame will pass to liberty
Sing out our little rhyme
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And we will fight for liberty
Fair work fair wages when
We sell our labour carefully
We women and we men
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Remember Annie Besant fought
And brought resources in
To aid those women who had nought
Who made fair wage begin
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08Jul2016 written by ©®Charlotte Peters Rock
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