Daguerreotapes: Portraits of Women and Work (7 portraits)

DeGaria tapes portraits of working women's history, a portrait of the first woman mayor west of the Rockies. Oregon women won the right to vote in 1912. In 1913 mayor Clara Cynthia Munson of Warrington told reporters that although she was not much in favor of women's suffrage, as long as women had the vote they ought to be active in politics to show that they could make good use of the ballot. She lived here for some years. She was a vocal person and probably people

became aware of her and then somebody thought maybe she would be a good candidate. Well it was quite a thing for she was first mayor I think of the city in Oregon. Our city was a few hundred people by that time. December 18th she was elected in there. Well some people thought that was all right but others let a man do that work. She just ran and nobody else beat her. She got it and she was mayor. Well some women probably were real happy to see a woman get into a public office like that. It was in the papers I remember woman of women's office and so forth. Of course a lot of people said I wonder what this panel will be now with that old woman there I can remember that. Heavens that was quite different for somebody to do something like that and of course she was the first

woman mayor west of the roughies. She was bright and I think she was as capable as anybody around. She studied a lot in politics and things like that. Shortly after her election Miss Munson said if any girl wishes to get married let her become mayor of her hometown and she will have a large assortment of proposals from which to select. Among my male I've received 8 or 10 marriage proposals from Alaska to the southwest mining camps. Does that sound like something she would say? Yes exactly it sounds just like what you might say. I can't quite imagine it though. Can't you? I mean she may have said it but I don't know where all the proposals were coming from. It was so unusual. That sounds like her. During her term mayor Munson had to deal with the matter of relicensing the town's one saloon. Nearby Astoria had 50 saloons and Miss Munson decided that

although few women were in favor of saloons and what they stood for as long as the government issued saloon licenses all she could do was make sure the saloon keeper paid the fee and abided by the law. She always had something to say and she was quite witty. I think she was quite firm if she had a mind. She had a decision on anything she'd put it through her. As mayor of Warrington Miss Munson eliminated the salaries for the city attorney and the policemen. With the money saved Warrington fixed their old sidewalks and built new ones. Miss Munson served then as mayor city attorney and chief of police. Well she was sort of an austereal character. I mean she was very precise you know and I think she was a pleasant sort of a person. She was a rather tall slender built woman and she was lame. She was a very plain woman. There wasn't any claim with

beauty even if she did have lots of proposals. She was fun and had a very quick wit and was interested in everything that went on and I don't think she was mayor more than about one term or so. When asked her age mayor Munson chided reporters for asking such a leading question. She told them what they could say though that she was old enough to give Warrington an economical and business like administration as mayor. DeGaria tapes are produced by Harriet Baskis with funds from the satellite program development fund. DeGaria tapes portraits of working women's history, a portrait of women factory workers in New England. In 1900 women made up 20% of the nation's workforce. Many of the 5 million women wage earners worked in the

factories of New England. Most women factory workers held jobs in seasonal industries such as the production of valentine cards which was a major industry in Worcester, Massachusetts from the 1840s to the 1940s. When I worked in the valentine shop, it was for short duration. They needed help to get the valentine cells and get the blue, the lace and the figurines. These would be the cheaper ones you know. They'd be four by five and anybody could get a job at that time because there was such a demand for valentines didn't stock up like they would today. Well, the carcer job was the same way. They had their washer orders. As the season changed, the cars that even the material would change the oil wash. Some of them were wet because they were lighter in weight and pores didn't sweat so much.

Some factory workers got paid deducted for being late for work or for singing, talking or laughing. Seamstresses in the garment industry had to pay for the items they used like machines, electricity and even drinking water. And we had to pay for our own thread that the carcels were made. That was one thing that you'll stick at me. But everybody had to pay for that thread. I don't know why. It must have been a reason for it. You paid only 18 cents or a big spool like that. You had to buy it in the factory and then they'd take it. What you got the red and deducted. Not only was the amount of available work in these industries unsteady,

but female factory workers were rarely paid a weekly wage. Skilled workers formed trade and craft unions, but most of these unions failed to address the special problems of working women who were concentrated in unskilled factory jobs. The industrial unions saw the need to organize all workers in an industry, regardless of sex skills or job category. And the men used to have speakers at noon and the girls that go over and listen and they tried to get them to get interested in that. And they were trying. The girls were trying. And there was two girls in particular who were trying hard. Those girls got fired.

Mr. Downing says, if they continued wanting a union, he shut the shop down. Nobody wanted that. That really was a nice place to work. Only that the hours were terrible. And I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark seven o'clock in the morning and I got three dollars a week. He didn't spend anything on coffee because he wouldn't have any take home pay. There was ten hours a day. You know, we couldn't work more than ten. But we worked six days a week, five days a ten, and sat the letters off at four. That was 58 hours a week. I didn't mind. I brought the work and hang around doing nothing. We got where they let us out at four o'clock and said the afternoon that was heaven.

You had two hours and then it came noon time that we were allowed. The weeks got shot, you know. That was the women. The men used to work a lot longer hours than that. They'd be at work long after we left and some of them are being earlier than that in the morning. Then there was quite a lot about jobs that women couldn't do at night. You had to be, you were supposed to be at home, but you were not. You weren't working. The Gary tapes are produced by Harriet Baskis with funds from the Satellite Program Development Fund. The Gary tapes, portraits of working women's history.

Women who worked in machine shops during World War II. The assembly line. She's making history. Working for victory. I first learned how to mount the points. Then I learned how to inspect them and how to pack them.

As many new girls came in, I was always asked to take this new girl and train her. I finally landed on a point grinder, which was a man's job, and that I really did enjoy. I felt I was creating something. It made us feel that we were doing something not only for ourselves, but for our country. In most cases, it worked pretty well, but even there, you knew perfectly well that the girls were only there because they couldn't get men. I enjoyed it very much. The place that we worked was very clean and the safety precautions was good, except that it was very dusty at first. We had to wear like vandanas on our heads and coveralls, and we'd go home at night with the grit in our hair. Oh, it was terrible.

What if she smeared full of oil and grease, doing her bit for the old land lease? She keeps the gang around. They love to hang around. Rosie. Rosie. Some women switched to war industry to help with the war effort. Some found it an opportunity to earn better wages than they had ever earned before. There was another plant that had a supervise of women, the same kind of a job that I had, and she said a lot of these girls are coming in, and because they have got nimble fingers, they do these jobs faster than some of the men that have been working here for 20 years. And it's on piecework, and we have to pay them more, and it's causing some trouble. I have to stand there and make sure that they do not open their envelopes until they get away from where the general crowd is all getting their pay. When they get off the plant land, why then they can open

their envelopes and see how much money they got. Special women's protective labor legislation in place before the war had prevented women from taking certain shifts or doing certain jobs. Some of these rules were overlooked during war time, but some stuck. They were given three quarters of an hour lunchtime, but no pay for it. The man had half an hour, and some of the girls came to me and said, couldn't we have lunchtime only half an hour, and then we get out 50 minutes earlier, because we have a family who want to get back and have housework to do. So I went to the superintendent, and I said, could we change? And he said, no, can't be done, it's illegal. Now somebody put in that law thinking it was being kind to the girls you see, but from that point of view, they'd rather have half an hour and get home earlier,

and I don't blame them. National polls indicated that 95% of working women expected to quit work when peace came. As the war continued, 65% said they hoped to hold onto their jobs when the war was over. But as the war was ending, many women found themselves out of the jobs they had been aggressively recruited for. This girl came and said, why is it? When I ask how to set up the machine, the foreman will come round, and he told me to step aside, and he will say it up for me. But he said, there's this young man that's got the machine next to me. When he is asking how to set the machine up, he comes over and explains to him exactly what he does, and has him do it. And so I said to the foreman of that same thing, he said, well, you know just as soon as the war is over, when the war is over, these girls are going to all be out and

doesn't pay me to train them. After the war, the men came back and they had to have jobs for men, and some of the women probably couldn't produce equally with a man, whereas some of us could, and therefore they felt that they would make it again of man's department. You see the men who were servicemen had their seniority continued when they came back, and they had the right to the jobs. I was called in as many other women were called in and explained to them that we could either take office jobs or we would be later. I think that most of the men try to get their women back in the home. But he enjoyed hearing that I was working in the job that I had during the war, and this made me more of a person, he thinks. Rosie buys a lot of war bonds that girl really has them, and we should keep purchase more bonds, wasn't all the cash in the national defense. Senator Jones, who was in the know, tell that these works on the radio,

learn and we'll hear about, and London will hear about, Rosie, Rosie, Rosie. The Garriottapes are produced by Harriet Baskis with funds from the Satellite Program Development Fund. DeGarriottapes, portraits of working women's history, a portrait of women during the 1930s, the decade of the Great Depression. They were thinking of the main pay envelope that came into a family with a means. In the 30s, there was woman's work and there was man's work. Women were a person's store, are you a tapest, a stenographer, a bookkeeper? There were certain fields,

you either became a teacher or a nurse, a secretary. What else? It wouldn't anyone's mind to look for any other work. What else could a woman do with that time? It would only be a secretary, a nurse, in the telephone. They were behind the scenes doing the office work. With the onset of the Great Depression, companies were urged by such groups as the Massachusetts Unemployment Relief Commission to take jobs away from women and give them to men. Initially, though, many women in pink collar work, like clerical and telephone, held onto their jobs, because employers found that they could cut hours and pay women less. It was a small company. They were two owners and no one wanted to lose their job, no one wanted the company to go under. So we were willing at that time to take a pay cut,

which we did, and they kept us on, and we rode through it. As the Depression continued, celebrities and notables urged women to stay home, so as to spread the few available jobs among male breadwinners. 27 states filed bills that would outlaw married women working, and although the courts struck down the bill in all 27 states, Ulster George Gallup declared that the popular opinion against married women working was an issue on which views were as solidly united as on sin and hay fever. Way back there in the Depression sort of a thing they didn't want the women working because it took work away from the men. They let the married women go so that the men could have more time. There was a furore over that, or a hue and a cry, or a little furious. Some of them came back, some never did. During the Depression, the women's Bureau of the

Department of Labor found that 90% of women workers supported themselves and their family with the money they were earning. More households than anyone imagined were being supported by women. To make ends meet, many women turned to jobs which paralleled those that were expected of them in the home. At that time they went out doing housework and some of them were really educated. There wasn't that many jobs except for taking babysitting, house cleaning, cooking for someone, maybe taking them washing those things because they was not the plant soap and for women in their time. I know I took jobs as mother's helper, and I get $5 a week. My friend, she baked cakes and a husband would take them to the desk and go around house to house and sell them. She used to say that they made enough to pay for their own cakes and bread. She'd go around and sell them, and then the kids would.

Journalists told women to stay home, spend prunently, and maintain a high moral tone. And on the end, McCormick wrote in the ladies' home journal that women could alleviate economic hardship at home, good, and good housewives. The informal sharing arrangements that women developed are what pulled many families through the great depression. The food is stressful. There are a lot of tools and good nursing things. When I went home to a meal, I never knew who was at the table. Somehow, there was always plenty. That's one thing the depression did. It brought out the best and people who had the worst luck.

It really did. They helped each other. It brought families closer together in that respect. If you had enough food on the table for a good meal, you'd never enjoy it without you and share it with somebody who needed it. And neighbors would help. I remember people, carrying people who lived next door in my aunt, and had never been very close. And I remember one Saturday. They sent a boy over with a great big piece of meat, because some individuals who was in the butcher business had sent them a big flabby meat, made a fighter that gave it to my aunt. We couldn't get over that, because we didn't feel that we knew them that was, you know. It brought that feeling of focus to people. I was in, I remember where. Maybe they weren't as awful, and they were economical. It's my mother. She always sent down the great big private food down to them. To get her produced, like Harriet Baptist,

she's fun from the satellite program, so it's fun. To give you a take, portraits of working women's history, to give a portrait of women who parts are waiting in the cladding, tindled in round with people who are keeping food, and since the time was in round, I can hold them, no one in the United States. And one of the projects for the rodeo is, you saw, a professional counter-class compete for that, and try to fall at one of his cowgirls on the computer. One of the special cowgirls, who was recently to the cowgirl, Hall of Fame, and her for Texas, and then to the humans now.

Hall of Fame, Oregon, and Jose. My name is Ali Ossmann. I was born in 1896. I've been in the most of my time here. You may stay around Oregon, and a lot of my life. And then again, I was born in 1913, because in 1932, I grew up tonight. Some people viewed certain circuit-riding videos, and tried to make a video. To the women, there was a lot of different than the local girls. These ladies are like this. They're so much world. They're all four. There's a different world. It's my mother and two. When they said it, they just read the chat. They were, I don't know, independent women. They just stayed there. They were, they were independent women. It just seemed to target everything. I'm only coming back. I'm coming back. I'm coming back. I'm coming back. I'm coming back.

I'm coming back. I told him most of the world there was only two or three countries. And had work with that well, was to decorating that. Well, we were tiny, we werezentrant. We both too. We all know that when she was hurt bad, and I run over there, and bought it out just

cold, or the wedge in her hand, or something like that, or in her face, it was just on the wall. And they pulled her up, cranked it, here has to, and it took these shafts off and right up to the hospital. And the flyer shafts off, each night, I'll bring it, she lifts, flies, but it's time to kill her. And Frank was the last show, the one in the house, the one in the house, the one in the house.

But I'm not finished, but I walked out, I didn't notice what I could see. I can't ahora, I still think around it, when I saw, something happened to me, and I and we're going to do some more of that. You can see it here, there's a candle and all that, you can see it here. But we have eight bullets, that's the one that's on that. And see it, and see what we have there. You can see it here. As long as they have the R.D. We have to go ahead and stop the other. And we're going to do one more, and that's one answer that we're doing. And I think some Portuguese. And yeah, Portuguese. And you can see the same. It's amazing. It's amazing. I want to think about it. I want to think about it. I want to think this. I want to think about it.

I think this is— I don't know what I'm going to say. I want to think about it. This is dry. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I know. Maybe I see you. This is dry. I don't know. I know. Maybe I see you. I don't know. Maybe a fig. I think this is dry. This project was originally designed at radio, but it was originally designed at radio, so the project was not so very effective. It's fun to carry a satellite program by how to download it. It's fun to make satellite programs by how to download it. There are tapes, portraits of women's history. There are a portrait of women's art,

performers of women's history, portraits of women's history, Yes, you do. You both know it. Not half goes up and down. In 1912, Oregon was one of the first to grant me well to vote. At the end of that day, Mrs. Lyndon Le Manson had been elected mayor of that year. She did think of logging and she'd been elected in the air of war in 1906, small, Italian, Nutella in 1916, a national part of the unit. One of the most women, kind of, didn't take all of them in as a city of great of women. And elected three of them as a city assistant.

The group, whether or not they could have put up hand forms, was because of this lawsuit. It was tired on a date, because in the beginning, all the visitors of the town didn't have any evidence. They were just there. They wanted to tell them that it's time to move. So the women, they didn't put up hand in a date and then they decided to have a woman. Canada did. It was kind of a land of people joking about it. The last, you know, women took oath to them. Very don't. As well as the bandits, so far as anyone could say. Well, it's an amdeus. Anyway, there's a very tough family being built, because it wasn't really the real thing for us to have. Today, we will need to do it. Kelly Wallace is a historian. The study is called, you know, Wallace, a headie-toe government. That's what we call some of Canada. The people on the other hand, they counsel on the historical disease women when running against them.

And actually, they didn't take their families on their own. They didn't tell me they would be elected. Until they started finding out they'll continue to live up to them. And they specifically wanted to help them to sit. And they thought they'd be the chancellor of the town. And they thought they'd do it a lot better. The men who did a lot of help that didn't want men. This was kind of being a disaster, so you know, we're going to be able to end it, you know. I'm sure she was right here. She was a small one. Very, very quickly. And she was very intelligent. This one had been there before her. I hope she could meet her brain. Her husband, when they passed the book, told us that he met her. There, he started to remark, we are done. We were put at the set at the end of the day. So this is where we see the COVID-19 disease.

There has been a set about the so-called Petytote young men. And in a while, Settiness made it. There has been a set of young men. There has been a lot of women. However, we will know that there is a bit to be noted. And this incredible man is that of a death. And if I did not believe that any woman on this council was not as comfortable as a man, however, she might have said, I would remind you, I would remind you, this is the case. As a result, counts are closing, so you can't even express how many women are treated as a couple. And that's because I'll let you out for a minute. And also, we have a set of young men. I'm sure. No. Now, I think it's true. It's a photo for the young men. I think it's a big set of women. It's true leaders, one of them is in a very hard community. And it's a great, generous honor, the cast of these, the cracks of the earth.

And the fact that they can't win, now I'm going to let them demonstrate them. And I think it's a hot win. I would have missed it. The male also said, you know, you're going to be given a business in a program and an association. And we believe that when you see many things I appear to be able to advise that this funds a satellite program are all available hence The Dairy Tape, Portrait of Washington, was a tasty day, a portrait of a hit who worked in the backyard during World War II of Women's Day, and he died during World War II.

The war, Portrait Laboratories caused the New Atherinia, a deathfully recruited to work with that government to address the historic yard women's Portland, Oregon, and Cooverwatch. Or, yes, for a much larger region than Hawaii, New Virginia, over the many thousand years of occupancy, factories, and forehands and farmmen that's working in Detroit, like the state's most well. I've got my sister's work, my sister's leadership, that I'm doing at work in America. There's only a lot of time I can work with my sister. She said it was a good for her, and I think it was a good reward. She said, oh, what's my life? Like, I'm sentenced. I think, well, ladies and gents, $20,000, $38,000. And my sister's going to say, get him after the act, and go away. She's working here now. Oh, God, I think that's really awesome. Some women are struggling, and they are later asked to run in, and I went back to the name

of the 30 number. I didn't know anything about this. I didn't know anything about this. I was out there seeing some of the deaths I never had, because I was working. I didn't know anything. I might be able to go to this, but I was going to bring this. This is the time that I'm going to remember. That's one of the things that I'm going to remember. That's one of the things that I'm going to remember. I'm going to say, oh, I think the audience is really nice. I think the audience is really nice. It's a really important, major part of it. You know, I think it's a great thing. I want to work with you. You said it all the time. I always need to work with you. I always need to work with you. I always need to work with you. I always need to work with you.

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