Good morning.
Snow’s in the forecast for Whitewater, with one to three inches expected during the day. In Athens, Georgia, it will be a day of showers with a high temperature of sixty-three.
In the city today, there’s a Community Development Authority at 4:30 PM. The agenda is available online, and the meeting resumes – in both closed and open sessions – the CDA’s search for a director.
Later, at 6:30 PM, Common Council will meet.
On this day in 1900
Female Cotton Mill Workers Strike
On this date 100 female employees of the Monterey mill, affiliated with the Janesville Cotton Mills, went on strike for higher wages. According to local sources, a committee of four “good-looking young ladies” was appointed to negotiate with management. Doing piece work, the women earned only $40 a month. The company said the women “don’t know how good they’ve got it…because they are paid more than at other local cotton mills and as well as some men with families.” The women argued their monthly pay only averaged $20. Within three days, all the women were hired to work by tobacco warehouses. The Monterey mill was one of three Janesville cotton mills in operation at the turn of the century. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
Via Wisconsin Historical Society.
Google’s puzzle for today asks “Who was the first American president known to have sworn his oath of office on a book other than the Bible?”