And sewer pipes overhead and there were suers in the ground and sometimes were wood, rats ran freely and so did roaches. Bakers worked exceedingly long hours and exceedingly difficult work. It wasnt as difficult as a lot of work during that time, its true, but the title of my first chapter, by the way is not my grandma used to bake. They were handling 100 to 200 pounds of sacks of flour and its hard work and it was dirty and filthy and difficult work for long hours. But it wasnt just that it was difficult conditions for the bakers. There was also the Public Health was endangered by the conditions that these people were working in because the bread wasnt very sanitary. What was also happening in the country that people were beginning to look with Public Health and public safety. Well, i think this is a really good time after that clip to talk about the bake shop act and what the legislature of new york did to address the conditions that you so there were so well described in the video.
Us, a little about history in the park service. So since he retired dr. Pitcaithley teaches at new mexico state university. He teaches public history and Civil War History. He had a book that came out this week, the u. S. Constitution and secession, a documentary anthology of slavery and White Supremacy. So it is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce you to dr. Dwight pitcaithley. Nick promised he wasnt going to include the rock star part, but best laid plans. Thank you for coming tonight. Thanks to nick for that wonderful introduction, thanks to the grant site for hosting this event. Im going to talk for about 25 or 30 minutes and then turn it over to you so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about, and we hope that during my time ive been provocative enough that we can have a conversation that goes on for another 30 or 45 minutes. Robert penn warren, who many of you know threetime Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote in 1961 at the centennial of the war that the civil war is
Pursuit of both liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, a ship arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white land owning colonists. And here those enslaved africans joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. So today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just for hundredn time 400 years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of those four centuri
I dont think we have clipped the safety problem. As long as we havent, i am not comfortable authorizing a move from a Pilot Program to a mainstream, no, how many ever we want to have approach. I think if we cannot assure safety, both for pedestrians on the sidewalk, and the users of these devices on the road. I think we have to go slow. I see your point, director heminger. Mr. Hyde, do you feel with the reporting that we get back from 311, and with the structure we have in place of what we expect to see from these Scooter Companies in terms of not blocking the sidewalk and being locked appropriately, people not riding on the sidewalk. If we were to come into a situation where as they expanded they get more numbers, and we start seeing bad behavior, multiply, do you feel under this proposal you have the tools that you need to then ratchet down on the companies who are not meeting our standards . Absolutely. We are issuing permits that are valid for no longer than one year. That is one t
You really have to have a uniform procedure for moving vehicles on the sidewalk. You would not allow cars on the sidewalk. He would not allow motorcycles on the sidewalk, that is for sure. We need to have a uniform safety code, so the pedestrians can be protected. That is a an agenda agenda for walk San Francisco. People have to be protected on the sidewalk, as well as the intersection. I certainly support the idea of identification. I think when scooters violate the laws they should be subject to prosecution. We need to have the safety for all san franciscans. Otherwise its going to be a nightmare scenario where youre going to have sidewalks infested with all of these vehicles and even Board Members will be safe either. It will be screaming for help. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, board of directors. Unfortunately the apocalypse that mr. Weiner just predicted his art here. If you got to the west side you will have to look very far to find cars on the sidewalk. People