Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
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The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.Rose Schneiderman
Women have proved in the late strike that they can be faithful to an organization and to each other. The men give us the credit of winning the strike.
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We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
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All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.
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I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.
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I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.
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