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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.
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