You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Sunday May 31, 1903
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Statement Issued by The Central Textile Workers' Union
By tomorrow, 80,000 textile workers will be on the strike. This a statement put out by the CTWU:

Thirty-six trades, representing 90,000 people, ask the employers to reduce working hours from sixty to fifty-five hours a week. They are willing that wages be reduced accordingly. They strike for lower wages in an effort to get shorter hours.

Three trades, representing 10,000 people, ask for the same reduction in working hours, but, in addition, they ask for the same weekly wages or a slight increase, averaging ten per cent.

The request for shorter hours is made primarily for the sake of the children and women. For six years the organized textile workers of Philadelphia have been trying in vain to persuade the politician-controlled Legislature of Pennsylvania to pass a law which would reduce the working hours of children and women and stop them from doing night work.

You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Saturday May 30, 1903
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Some Textile Manufacturers Grant Concessions
With news that the textile strikes in this city are spreading, 46 manufacturers have agreed to meet the demands of their employees. These employees will remain at work. In addition to the 55 hour week, the dyers are demanding a wage increase of one dollar per week to bring their wages up to $13 per week. With the dyers on strike, the entire textile industry comes to a stand still. There are 600 textile firms in the city. By Monday, the textile strike will become general, according to the Executive Committee of the Central Textile Union.

An inquest examining the death of Lucy Meadows, 32, was held yesterday by Michael Singleton, coroner for Blackburn, Hyndburn, and Rosendale.

Singleton delivered a verdict of suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Meadows was found dead at her home in March. In his closing statement Singleton added that the Daily Mail's "sensationalist and salacious" coverage of Meadow's transition from male to female was nothing more than "character assassination."

After delivering the verdict Singleton turned to reporters present and said the following:

And to you the press, I say shame, shame on all of you.

--Michael Singleton