Clara Lemlich, Now
Clara Lemlich Shavelson (March 28, 1886 – July 12, 1982) was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909. Later blacklisted from the industry for her labor union work, she became a member of the Communist Party USA and a consumer activist. In her last years as a nursing home resident she helped to organize the staff.
Tonight, big marble Museum of the City of New York weather is luckily good because it is May wine outside Labor History Month we honor 5 women in the name of Clara Lemlich three in their nineties two are ninety eight tonight we will sing to persistence to women who say yes to making this world even a little better to women who say yes.