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PAGE 4 | November 3, 2017 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS CULTURE High school drama department presents Triangle Factory play Gresham’s Centennial High School Drama Department pre- sented “The Triangle Factory Fire Project” for its fall play. Adopted from the book by Christopher Piehler, in collabo- ration with Scott Evans, the story is about the actual Triangle Factory Fire of 1911, which killed 146 people, mainly young immigrant girls, in New York City. It is told through the eyes of survivors and witnesses, as well as court transcripts from the trial of the factory owners that followed. The outrage that erupted following the fire and trial changed and shaped many laws and political policies that are still in place today. Labor Joe Hill concert Nov. 19 at Musicians hall unions, fire drills, and women’s right to vote, are just a few of the things that were largely in- fluenced by this fire. Performances were held Oct. 26, Oct. 28, and Nov. 2. The fi- nal performance is Saturday, Nov. 4, in the CHS Auditorium starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students 18-and-under and senior citi- zens. The Oregon School Employ- ees Association (OSEA) an- nounced the performance at the Northwest Oregon Labor Coun- cil’s monthly delegates’ meeting on Oct. 23. Joe Hill, the Swedish-born labor organizer and songwriter, will be remembered at a concert Sunday, Nov. 19, at Musi- cians Local 99, 325 N.E. 20th Ave. (just south of Sandy Blvd.), Portland. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. A suggested donation of $10 will be asked at the door. Musical performance and spoken history will be presented by Beyond Little Boxes. The band is comprised of Mary Rose on guitar, Mark Loring on man- dolin, and James Cook on up- right bass. Hill spent time in Portland and the Pacific Northwest be- fore being executed by a Utah prison firing squad on Nov. 19, 1915. His final words to his union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), were “Don’t Mourn, Organize!” For more information, call Cook at 503-703-1693. NOLC labor history program will be a virtual tour of Portland November is Labor History Month in Oregon, and every year the History Committee of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council makes a presentation at the delegates’ monthly meeting. This year, on Nov. 27, the committee will present a nar- rated virtual labor history walk- ing tour of downtown Portland. The 30-minute program is in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Labor History Asso- ciation. The meeting, which starts at 7 p.m., is held at the IBEW Lo- cal 48 Hall, 15937 N.E. Airport Way, Portland. Celebration of life for Lois Stranahan Dec. 1 A celebration of life for Lois Stranahan will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, at the Interna- tional Longshore and Ware- house Union Local 8, 2435 NW Front Ave., Portland. Stranahan, who helped organ- ize Communications Workers of America Local 7901, passed away May 17, 2017, at age 97. She was born Dec. 1, 1919. Stranahan and her husband Jesse, a member of ILWU Local 40, were longtime labor and so- cial justice activists in Oregon. HOT AUGUST CLAY SHOOT RESULTS IN COOL CASH FOR LCSA. Shannon Walker, executive director of labor and public relations at Sunrise Dental (right), presents a check for $5,005.78 to Eryn Byram, executive director of Labor’s Community Service Agency. The money was raised at the 4th annual Hot August Clay Shoot in Gervais. All proceeds from the event go to LCSA and Sunrise for Children, an organization that combats human trafficking. www.electgillespie.org https://www.facebook.com/KathyE.Gillespie/ Democrat Kathy Gillespie for State Rep., 18th LD (2) Paid for by Committee to Elect Kathy Gillespie 800 NE Tenney Road, Ste. 110-345, Vancouver, WA 98685
