Watts Mills

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“From all that dwell below the skies
let the Creator’s praise arise!
Let the Redeemer’s name be sung
through every land, by every tongue!”
—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

“You haf slafed your life away in de bosses’ mills and your fadhers before you and your kids after you yet. Vat is a man to do with seventeen-fifty a week? His wife must work nights to make another ten, must vork nights and cook and wash in day an’ vatfor? So that the bosses can get rich an’ the stockholders and bondholders. It is too much... ve stood it before because ve vere not organized. Now we have union... We must all stand together for union.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)