The lecture will review the labor conditions and issues, together with the relationship of capital and labor in the period of Fall River’s post-Civil War industrial expansion, with a focus on the most tragic example of the consequences.<\/p>\n
Songs were written about this disaster. Here are the lyrics to one such tune.
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The Granite Mill Fire<\/p>\n
Was in Fall River City
\n When the people was burned and killed,
\nIn a cotton manufactory
\n Called as the Granite Mill.
\nAt seven o’clock the firebells rang
\n But oh, it was too late,
\nThe flames they were fast spreading
\n And at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n
They were men and women there
\n And children too, I’m told,
\nWho might have been saved from out of the flames
\n If the truth was only known.
\nBut oh, the villains that locked thc doors
\n And told them to keep still,
\nIt was the bosses and overseers
\n That burning Granite Mill.<\/p>\n
The first scene was a touching one
\n From a maid so young in years,
\nShe was standing by a window and
\n Her eyes were filled with tears.
\nShe cried, ” Oh, save me! Save me! ”
\n She called her mother’s name,
\nBut her mother could not save her
\n And she fell back in the flame.<\/p>\n
The next scene was a horrible one
\n Just as it caught my eye.
\nThey were leaping from a window
\n From up so very high,
\nAnd the only means of their escape
\n Was sliding down a rope,
\nAnd just as they were half way down
\n The burning strands they broke.<\/p>\n
Christ, Christ, what a horrible mess,
\n They were mangled, burned and killed,
\nSix stories high, and falling from
\n The burning Granite Mill.
\nBut I hope their spirits has fled
\n To a better place far still,
\nUp high, up high, up in the sky
\n Above the Granite Mill.<\/p>\n
From Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia, Creighton Collected from Tom Henneberry, who learned this song in the 1890s, says it describes a fire in Fall River, New York, of about that time. The locking-in aspect is reminiscent of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City. RG<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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