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 would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.Rose Schneiderman
After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.
Rose Schneiderman
By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.
Rose Schneiderman
During this strike period we girls each received 3 a week single men 3 a week, and married men 5 a week. This was paid us by the National Board.
Rose Schneiderman
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
Rose Schneiderman
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.
Rose Schneiderman
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