Today in labor history, June 3, 1900: The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is formed. At its founding convention, delegates represented roughly 2,000 members. The ILGWU grew to become one of the largest unions in the U.S., with 450,000 members at its peak in 1969. It merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE).
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From the east side of Chicago to the down side of L.A.
There’s no place that he goes we don’t bow down to him and pray
Yeah, we follow him to the slaughter, we go through the fire and ash
Cause he’s the doll inside our dollars, our Lord and Savior Jesus Cash
Chorus
We blow him up — inflated
And we let him down — depressed
We play with him forever
He’s our doll, and we love him best
From the stress of New York City to the death cults of D.C.
There’s nothing quite so pretty as what he offers to you and me
So we kneel down at the altar of the Church of the Bought and Sold
And pray the doll he does not falter and makes us rich before we get old
Chorus
From the side streets of New Orleans to the deadbeats by the Bay
The chat rooms are all a-buzzin’ with our wishes for the day
And the money changers come howling through the temple of our needs
While the doll is out there prowling and holds the notes on all our dreams
Chorus
—by Terry Allen
from the album Salivation
Bar Code Jesus
Anonymous asked: is whats on your mind a rhetorical question
I shouldn’t answer that.
