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SPEAKER_00: Before we get started, just a warning that there are some mentions of violence in this episode. Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica. This month we're highlighting ragers. Women who use their anger, often righteous, though not always, to accomplish extraordinary things. Today we're talking about a fearless union leader who stood up to big bosses. She fought tirelessly to alleviate poverty and exploitation of workers. She was a and risked her life to do so. Let's talk about Fannie Sellans. Frances Fannie Mooney was born in Ohio, sometime around 1870. Soon after, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to the Irish neighborhood of Cary Patch. Fannie grew up in labor unions. Her father, a riverboat painter, and she was a part of her way of life, a path she would follow till the end. Fannie eventually married a man named Charles Sellans. By the time she was 30 years old, he was dead, and she was now a widow with four children. To support them, she took on a job as a seamstress at a garment factory owned by the clothing company Marks and Haas. The working conditions were horrible. The shop opened at 7.15 in the morning, and if you didn't make it on time, you didn't work. At 7.15 sharp, the factory locked the workers inside for the day. Sometimes it made me sick to think what would happen in that big flimsy barracks if a fire should come, Fannie later said. Disaster seemed inevitable, and for measly pay. Workers got half an hour for lunch. After that, everyone, men, women, children as young as 10, and elders with no other options, worked until nine at night. The company also had a policy prohibiting workers from using the elevator. They had to climb six flights of stairs to reach their stations. One of Fannie's coworkers was a tailor who was suffering from tuberculosis. One day, he used the elevator. When he got reprimanded for breaking company rules, the other tailors walked out in solidarity, and so did Fannie and the other women. Fannie became a leader for the union, going on tour across the Midwest to ask for boycott support. And in 1913, after four years of protesting and picketing, Marks and Haas recognized the union. Fannie's success made waves. Other industry unions looking for a win asked for her guidance. Soon after her work in St. Louis came to an end, she traveled to West Virginia to support the minor workers union there. Her work was intense. She distributed clothing and food to starving women and babies, helped mothers tend to their children in poverty, and aided the sick and dying in their final days. By 1919, Fannie had a strong reputation in the labor movement. While helping striking coal miners in Collier's, West Virginia, she was arrested and sent to six months in jail. After her release, Fannie wasted no time getting back into the movement. Phillip Murray, a steel worker and labor leader in Pennsylvania, was impressed by her reputation. He asked her to come help miners striking against the Allegheny Coal and Coke Company and direct their efforts. On August 26th, 1919, conflict between the miners and police came to a head. From here, narratives of the event differ. But in all of them, Fannie came to the aid of the workers. And all of them ended in her death. In some accounts, she rushed to help women and children after deputies opened fire on the crowd of strikers. In another, she intervened when she saw a picketer being beaten. In the end, she was a man of the past. In another, she intervened when she saw a picketer being beaten. She was then beaten and shot by the guards. Fannie was buried in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Though the United Mine Workers of America continued to bring attention to her murder, all deputies brought to trial were eventually found not guilty. Fannie's story is not well known or extensively written about, but her work and courage and that of her peers helped create many of the workers' rights we benefit from today that are still under threat. All month, we're talking about ragers. For more information, check us out on Facebook and Instagram, at Wamanica Podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. Talk to you tomorrow.
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